Dance
Postmodern Dance
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Postmodern dance tends to be divided between those choreographers who experiment formalistically with constructed and performed movement, and those who are influenced by modernist developments.
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Drawing on a half century of documenting performance across multiple genres, from post-modern dance to physical theater to body work, as well as site-specific performance, with audiovisual examples from some 53 practitioners, including Eugenio Barba, Tim Etchells, Joan Skinner, Kristin Linklater, and Steve Paxton, Peter Hulton’s “A Digital Essay on Performance”considers performance as a body in operation with imagery and attempts to identify some of its foundational features.
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Active Breath Somatic Practice – the vital relationship of the breath in performance practice, Patricia Bardi, Lecture-Presentation at the Breath as a Tool in Performance Conference– National Centre for the Performing Arts.
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Part 1 of the 80th Year Retrospective. Includes the ‘Undressing and Dressing’ and ‘Paper Dance’ from the ground-breaking interdisciplinary performance Parades and Changes.
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Filmed in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Body Without a Brain is a
high-risk, physically demanding dance for camera. Rianto seems to be in a trance as
he creates an unpremeditated encounter with the elements. He describes the work as
like a tree without roots. The piece embodies anxiety as the natural world becomes
ever more threatened.
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Gavin Krastin is a choreographer and performance artist. He
describes himself as “a gay, white, South African of a certain privilege and
class in relation to other bodies.” He suggests that BODY/BAG deals with race
and is intended to “expose and speak to the larger politics that affect us
all.”
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Solo performance vocalizing a US State Department questionnaire, a woman’s response to being mugged, and a existential soliloquy.
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Rosemary Butcher talks of the concerns that inform her work, referring specifically to the choreography, Spaces 4 (1988).
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CoNCrEte (2009)
screendance reveals
how the environment affects our emotions and ever-changing lived
experience.
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Conquest and Prison is a two-part suite of site-specific dance films set
in Grahamstown, South Africa. The two oldest historical sites in Grahamstown are Ft.
Selwyn and the Old Gaol, which imprisoned thousands of black South Africans. The
choreography of Part I "Oscar's Journey" is Oscar Buthelezi's personal response to the
history of colonialism commemorated at Ft. Selwyn. Part II "Child's Play" is similar to
the approach in "Oscar's Journey." "Chorographers Lorin Sookool and Julia Wilson reflect
on the past as the sounds and images of the gaol continue to echo and resonate today.
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This piece is an excerpt from a half-hour documentary shot in Grahamstown,
South Africa, during the annual National Arts Festival (https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/2016-festival/).
Interviews were conducted with a wide range of choreographers. This
selection focuses on up-and-coming artists Julia Wilson, Lorin Sookool,
Athena Mazarakis, and Kamogelo Molobye. The works are inspired
by challenges facing women, gays, and lesbians in contemporary South
Africa.
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Patricia Bardi and Arthur Brooks (music: trumpet) create an improvised performance exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationships among embodied sound texture, music movement, dance, voice, and text.
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Patricia Bardi and Arthur Brooks create an improvised performance in 1998 exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationships among embodied sound texture, music movement, dance, voice, and text.
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Patricia Bardi discusses some of the guiding principles of her work and how it improves the expression of voice through the entire body.
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This excerpt from an evening-long performance, Figment has improvisersusing compositionas a formal element.
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Walking Gusto Productions
explores the marginalised and disempowered female voices of South Africa by
using the body as a “site of resistance”
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Site-specific dance is an investigation of space and place. A static sculpture — steps without a destination — is transformed by dance asking: What is this place? Why are we here? Where are we going? The city across the river is lost in mist. The GIFTED dancers inscribe the landscape. Their gift transforming geometry and perspective, re-structuring space. Filmed on location Almada, Portugal.
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A duet performance between Patricia Bardi (vocal dance) and Alex Maguire (music).
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Kaash (Hindi word for ‘if’) was created in 2002 by Akram Khan when he was choreographer in residence of the Royal Festival Hall. He teamed up with celebrated talents Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney.
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The full performance of Light Becomes Her is a dynamic collage of
voice, dance, movement, and character which looks at one woman and the multiple
aspects of the different women living inside her.
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The excerpt of Light Becomes Her is a dynamic collage of voice, dance, movement, and character which looks at one woman and the multiple aspects of the different women living inside her.
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In Nocturnal Shimmerings is an improvised collaboration with Patricia Bardi and Michael Vatcher.
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Patricia Bardi investigates the subconscious, life-sustaining systems including the organ, circulatory, hormonal and autonomic nervous systems as part of her program – Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Somatic Practice.
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Pin Drop Echoes Through shows Patricia Bardi and pianist Alex Maguire creating a performance that build bridges and dismantle boundaries between movement, dance, voice, text, and music.
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QUEENS DREAM is a site-specific dance for film at Niki de St. Phalle's Queen
Califia's Magical Circle.
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The Soul of Dance is an introduction to the vibrant diversity of contemporary dance
in Indonesia. Rooted both in tradition and the idioms of modern movement this half
hour documentary introduces audiences to work ranging from site-specific solos to
multimedia musical theater.
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A peformance of movement, dance, voice and music with Patricia Bardi and Alex Maguire.
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The Lastmaker (2007) was Goat Island’s ninth and final performance, composed by the group with ending in mind. The piece took its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia.
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The Organs’ Presence in Voice, Movement and Expression Workshop, Patricia Bardi holds a workshop on combining somatic practice and improvisation in integrating voice and movement in a creative process.
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A documentary on the annual summer retreat for interdisciplinary performance arts.
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An interview with Patricia Bardi on the capacity of hands-on touch and Organ Rebalancing.
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The Shadow Drone Project is a film which depicts planned and unplanned
events in urban and natural environments as seen from the perspective of a drone.
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In this performance Patricia Bardi and Alex Maguire create fluid tides of mood and movement.
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Jean Isaacs presents an annual festival of site-specific dance in San Diego, CA. Original dances are created alongside San Diego’s iconic red trolleys. The special energy of this event comes from interaction of artists immersed in the community. In this project art and "real-life" are not rigidly distinct realms. The documentary takes a behind the scenes look at the months long process of creation.
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Inthis lively performance, Patricia Bardi shares some of her discoveries and insights that have developed over many years of independent research and performance practice of Vocal Dance. Performed at the SDNO, School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, 1995.
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by Peter Hulton
Drawing on a half century of documenting performance across multiple genres, from post-modern dance to physical theater to body work, as well as site-specific performance, with audiovisual examples from some 53 practitioners, including Eugenio Barba, Tim Etchells, Joan Skinner, Kristin Linklater, and Steve Paxton, Peter Hulton’s “A Digital Essay on Performance”considers performance as a body in operation with imagery and attempts to identify some of its foundational features.
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by McPherson, Katrina
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by Freeman, Mark
Reflections on Queen Dream by Mark Freeman.
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by Clark, Jonathan
Reflections on the Shadow Drone Project by Charles Linehan discusses the
work, choreography, and elements of The Shadow Drone Project.
Practitioner
William Forsythe is recognised as one of the world’s foremost choreographers. He has also worked with media specialists to develop new approaches to dance documentation, research and education.
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Goat Island was a Chicago-based collaborative performance group that made nine intimate, low-tech and intensely physical performance works that toured internationally, between 1987 and 2009.
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Deborah Hay is a choreographer, author and dance visionary. In the 1960s, she trained with Merce Cunningham and performed with Judson Dance Theatre. She lives in the USA and works internationally.
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