week 18

DANCE DANCE DANCE

I'm back on this movement challenge malarkey! Missed a chunk of the year due to life celebrations, but I hope that will be forgiven...
I'm going with that celebration theme for this week and it's somewhat of a cliché...but there usually something to those oft said things so here we go...

DANCE LIKE NO-ONE IS WATCHING
thats it.

each day pick a song you love and loose control. There is joy, endorphins and giggles to be found in this challenge and those are self care musts.
On a side note i've fallen down a Michael Clarke choreography rabbit hole so its now inspiring everything I do.

"I said ‘behave as you do in the subway when you want to look at someone, but you have to look out the corner of your eye, and then you avert your glance as soon as their gaze meets yours’"

-- Yvonne Rainer, instructions

Physical Thinking

"We are all experts in 'physical thinking', we all have a body right, and we all know what that body feels like in the real world..."

--Wayne McGregor A choreographer's creative process in real time

Claire Cunningham

The detail in Claire Cunningham's work is completely captivating. Take a break and click play to inspire yourself...

Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown's movement investigations (both in her dance and visual art practices) found the extraordinary in the everyday and challenged existing perceptions of what constitutes performance. Her work always leaves me with the desire to move and explore. Priceless. I highly recommend exploring her lifes work.

Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer
(Images found here and check this video out!)

Pina

  Pina Bausch's The Complaint of an Empress (Die Klage der Kaiserin). Released in 1990, this rare film was the only one she directed.

'The Complaint of an Empress was produced between October 1987 and April 1989. The general framework is set by the changing seasons - autumn, winter and spring. The film's inner structure reflects Pina Bausch's method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance. The film consequently does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage reflecting certain moods and invoking different associations. The film's' scenes, some of which are thoroughly absurd, are set in different locations, such as the woods and fields around Wuppertal, the city centre, the suspension railway, a carpet shop, a greenhouse and the rehearsal room in a former cinema (Wuppertal's "Lichtburg").'

Pina's work is MAGNIFICENT. The choreography is so emotive and mysterious and massively life-affirming. A firm favorite and constant inspiration.

See here, here,  here and here for past Pina posts.

Scene from 'The loss of small detail' ballet frankfurt, 1991.
choreography: William Forsythe. costumes: Issey Miyake.

Dancing In The Dark

Dancing In The Dark from Matt Luck

This is beautiful.

Choreographed and danced by Matt Luck and Emma Portner
Music by Ben Howard and Yael Naim
Filmed by Christian Beasley
Edited by Matt Luck
Filmed at Live Arts studio

(Source: 1000scientists)