a still from the film. your body can do that too, right?
Seems that dancefilm has finally caught vimeo’s attention.
Choreographed by Alexander Whitley, it’s a “motion control test film by DuckEye developed from ‘Iatrogenesis’ created for Rambert Dance Company’s ‘Season of New Choreography’”. Oh, and it’s being featured currently on Vimeo’s HD playlist. Not that i’m a vimeo expert by any means, but it’s the first dancefilm i’ve seen featured, so hooray and bravo.
It reminds me of something Tony Schultz said in our dancetech class at SLC – he was talking about some new piece of technology – he equated it to having 30 people available to tie your shoes. It’s powerful, potentially worlds more efficient, amazing, and inventive than what we are currently used to, but that at the moment we’re stuck with this awkward and messy try-it-and-see-what-happens process of testing the system while the remaining 29 people stand there and realize that it’s, for the moment, much easier with one.
Dancefilm strikes me as kind of in this vein. Awash with potential energy waiting to explode, but relatively few examples of choreographers and/or filmmakers taking that possibility and engineering it into a r/evolution of what’s possible with the moving body. I enjoyed this reality for that reason, a first step into a world where your movements wipe clean and leave trails of your own actions, where bodies have the ability to multiply and sever themselves, and where anachronistic instances and echoes of past movement are as real as the immediate and singularly present body.
Check it out – video after the jump…
pretty cool, right? Or not? What do you think?
Also, because you’ve gotten this far, here’s another little treat. And when i say “little”, i mean “AMAZING”.
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