Showing posts with label Dance and Ballet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dance and Ballet. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Women in Paradise 2007 - Performance by Ellen Schippers (Video)





 




If you really liked it thats great I don't want to take that away from you but does anybody think it was overdramatic and anticlimactic...I think the message is obvious and while it may be a good one to some degree it still seems one that is overdone and therefore? trite. Like something a highschool student would do in drama class and think is earthmoving and a few years later realize wasn't that cool.
Excellent universal message!?

Ellen's statement:
Ellen Schippers is a multi-disciplinary artist, who combines wearable sculptures, performance, , music, light and poetry in theatrical video-installations. She creates a “fantasy” world that is continuously bursting at the seams.
Her work is about gender, like stereotypical male and female images, ideals of beauty and about the contradiction between image versus authenticity. Schippers strips fixed images by inflating and deconstructing them and reveals the authentic emotions that are hidden behind these selfmade images.

Narciso Dead (Video)






This solo is a recreation of the beauty of the body in the middle of a lake and its reflection upon the water. It is the symbol of the primordial nature of self-love.
The dance then recreates the presence of the mind and how it fights against that primal self-love.
The Death of Narcissus reflects the fight between mind and body, Mother Nature against civilization, primitive means against the technolgical, robotic and automated world. The dance reflects both self-love and self-hate.
The title of this dance is from the poem by Lezama Lima. Muerte de Narciso was choreographed to music by Luciano Berio.
The dance was performed by several dancers, including: Fernando P. Jones, former dancer from the Alicia Alonso Ballet Company; Hector Figuaredo, former dancer from the La Guardia Ballet Company; and Francisco Araiza, Principal Dancer, Ballet Concierto of Mexico.
was choreographed in 1975. The title was based on "La Muerte de Narcissus" by poet Jose Lezama Lima.