ABOUT DANCE [6] RUSSIAN ROUND DANCE

NOT ON ROLLERSKATES 

Old time favorite Russian Round dances. Made to look as if they were captered out of tradition, they were actually perceived by Mira Koltsova, 

JIM DENEVAN [LAND ART 1]

Today I discovered Jim Denevan. Some pictures on FaceBook / design-dautore.com made me curious. Jim makes temporary drawings on sand earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. Contrary to the seventies land-art, this, in my opinion doesn't try to bear more importance then it can offer us: an extra way of seeing the specific beauty of a place...

There is also a certain kind of contemplating quality in the making of these works. Listening to the story in this film, you recognize the meaning of the work for himself.

ABOUT DANCE [5] NDT ROTATING ROOM

ABOUT DANCE [4] DV8 - Enter Achilles

British dance group DV8 did some great choreographies in the nineties of the last century. This presenting British pub life as an old boys thing, where being 'different' sets the men into celebrating their macho behaviour at the cost of the 'deveator'.



Go see 'all' their work, visit their awesome and inpiring website: DV8.CO.UK

ABOUT DANCE [3] 1234

This film has been able to cheer up so many people, I showed it too. The clever clip, combining a well build up scenography, non chalance, happiness, colour styling, dramatic development, ending into a 'deus ex machina' like disappearance, keeps you watching till the end...

ABOUT DANCE [2] SWAN LAKE [opera Bastille]

Paris L'Opera Bastille reeditioned Rudolph Nureyev's Lac des Cygnes [Swan Lake] on tchaikovsky's magnificent score. This clip gives a nice overview of the final scene, where the sorcerer / black swan comes for Odette, the princess turned swan.




Swan Lake, based on an old Russian fairytale has seen quite some choreographic developments since it's 19th century premier.

Read it's history on wikipedia
Or click for dozens of other exerpts on YouTube

ABOUT DANCE [1] IL CONFORMISTA [dance scene]