Hello Webdancers!

This week’s video is the first in a month-long series that features videos that engage with drawing and geometry. How do we create and mark the space around us with movement? As movers, it would seem that we are always making these lines, as those who watch us can remember for an instant where we have just come from.

We’ll begin with a well-known and well-loved piece by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker that was featured last winter at the MoMA. Enjoy!

“When you work with geometry and with geometrical patterns, what you actually do is like measuring the earth. It becomes very much about relationships of the amount of space you occupy in a certain amount of time.”

When we look through the viewfinder of a camera, we are given the task of measuring space in a different way, and of defining the relationships of the figures in focus through these measurements. The videos in this series may not all involve sophisticated camera work, but I hope they will help us to think about natural geometries in our bodies, new modes of composition, and ways in which different types of artistic production can converse with each other.

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