Body cinema: The Costume and the Body, Loie Fuller and Martha Graham

November 21, 2010

Both pioneers of modern dance and strong women in hard times, Loie Fuller and Martha Graham have made some ground works not only in dance, but in the field that discovers the interplay between the body, space, fabrics, light and movements…

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Photo above: Portrait of Loïe Fuller, by Frederick Glasier, 1902
Photo bellow: Martha Graham in Lamentation, by Barbara Morgan, 1935

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Material dancing with bodies: Tape Installation – Numen / For Use

June 24, 2010

I blogged about Design Company Numen / For Use almost more then a year, back then I’ve covered their lighting mirror box titled Numen / light.

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Tape Installation, Numen / For Use (c)

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Book of Miri

April 7, 2010

I really wouldn’t be a good blogger, if I wouldn’t blog about documentary Book of Miri by Katrine Philp, a film that I saw in the competitive programme of ZagrebDox Festival last month.

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Interview with Brice Leroux, part 2: Choreographing bodies and spaces

March 27, 2010

This is the second part of the interview with choreographer and dancer Brice Leroux. Read the first part here: Interview with Brice Leroux, part 1, Dancing lumino kinetics

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Electron-positron interaction from Continum by Brice Leroux

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