“Man Unseen (Theme)” Choreographed again
Here’s another dance set to “Man Unseen (Theme)” performed by Kimberly Patterson at 60×60 Dance at the Winter Garden in New York City November 14, 2008.
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Video of 60×60 Dance Available
A video of “Man Unseen” (Theme) with dance choreographed by Laura Shapiro and performed at Galapagos Art Space in New York city last September is now available on the 60×60 Dance blog.
“Man Unseen” (Theme) included in 60×60 International Mix 2008
This 60-second piece in the style of a 1960’s crime drama theme song was just chosen for the 2008 International Mix of Vox Novus’s 60×60 project. It was also included in the Evolution Mix, which was presented in concert in New York with choreography (see events listing).
StillMotion with ChameckiLerner Dance Company at TWU
I was selected to create the interactive electronic score for this collaborative work involving site-specific dance and photography at Texas Woman’s University, exploring the impossibility of capturing the mundane. The event was part of The Body and Performance Symposium: Discussions Exploring Collaboration Across Disciplines.
All source sounds were recorded during an average day in the lives of different people. In performance, the sound clips are fractured, so that the treble, middle, and bass frequencies of the sound act as three facets of a flexible beat pattern that articulates time. As they are played, the sounds travel toward, past, and away from the observer independently, causing their speed and pitch to be warped in time and space. The result is a texture of fragmented scenes, woven together, from multiple and mobile points of view in time and space, presenting the sound events as ephemeral strands of instants in time. StillMotion explores the ordinary sublime: on the one hand the impossibility of recording the everyday (as soon as it is marked, it is elevated in some way), and the impossibility of recording a performance (as soon as it is recorded it is a frozen text).StillMotion was originally created for a collaboration with guest choreographers Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, and the dance and visual arts departments of Texas Woman’s University. Photographs and sounds were taken of the dancers acting out an average day in their lives. The photos were used as a basis for the choreography, and the music, choreography and set design grew together organically. The performance consisted of dance depicting functions or feelings captured in the photos, stylized versions of photos on scrims hanging within space (sometimes invading the dance space), and this music, from processed sounds of the “average day.”
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