Posts Tagged ‘visual arts’

We have arrived at the end of our month-long exploration of dance and line. Have you kept up? To return to the beginning, visit these videos by de Keersmaeker, Orrico, and Forsythe.

We will end with a video by Rashaad Newsome and Darrin Prada called Untitled (New Way). (Unfortunately you will have to click the link to see this one as embedding has been disabled).

http://vimeo.com/10696932

From Newsome’s description:

“Untitled (New Way Study)” features Darrin Prada, one of New York City’s top “New Way” Voguers’, and serves to shape a careful and loving visual study of both performer and performance. I invited Darrin to my studio to be filmed demonstrating the “New Way” style of Vogueing. New Way is characterized by a more rigid, geometric pattern movement coupled with “clicks” (limb contortions at the joints) and “arms control” (sleight of hand and wrist illusions, which usually include “tuts” or “tutting” and locking). New Way can also be described as a modified form of mime, where imaginary geometric shapes such as a box are introduced during motion and moved progressively around the dancer’s body to display the dancer’s dexterity and memory.

Continuing with the theme of dance, geometry, and line drawing, here is a video of a performance by Tony Orrico, formerly of Shen Wei Dance Arts. You might remember him from his recent performance with John Jasperse, in which he covered the stage and lobby of Brooklyn Academy of Music with lines of tape (all while crouching down in a small white box on wheels).

This piece, Penwald 2: 8 Circles is created in 1,000 movements and measured by the length of Orrico’s body. Enjoy.