:: This is great! And I love the Gotan Project
Category: Video Dance
Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary FIRST POSITION follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet through one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions. Nothing short of perfection is expected, while they struggle through bloodied feet, near exhaustion, debilitating injuries, and the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.
First Position – Trailer
:: IFC Films
Their precision is fantastic. Can’t decide if the poor video adds or detracts from the overall effect.
Extravagant Russian FlashMob “Putting on the Ritz”:
Flash Mob in Russia – all for Putin, posted with vodpod
Le vent (ballet super slow motion), posted with vodpod
Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua from Staatsballett Berlin perform several jumps captured in slow motion at 1000 frames per second.
Boundaries/ Art of spectra- Peter Svenzon trail…, posted with vodpod
Boundaries, dance performance, production by Art Of Spectra/ Peter Svenzon, co- production with Folkteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dancers Ulriqa Fernqvist, Sosso Harryson, Hannes Lundin, Morgan Karlsson& Raymond Roa. Light/ videodesign by Ludde Falk, Set/ production design by Robert Ljung, Music by Peter Svenzon and Kronosquartet.
In an atmosphere inspired by the worlds of David Lynch, choreographer Peter Svenzon examines general human issues in this physical, expressive and uploaded performance. Art of Spectra’s contemporary style is very physical and features movements influenced by the choreographer’s background in breakdancing.
:: h/t Methods of Dance | Art Of Spectra
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Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks On By « S…, posted with vodpod
Late Afternoon Video: See Darren Criss lead the…, posted with vodpod
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Godspell Flash Mob in Times Square, posted with vodpod
:: A revival of Godspell is back on Broadway!
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Lost in Motion, posted with vodpod
Kings of Dance:
Guillaume Cote Composer Dancer Kings of the Dan…, posted with vodpod
I like the camera work alot in this piece.
Quick Crew – Rolling Stone by The Weeknd, posted with vodpod
This piece by Jiří Kylián!!!!!! Suggest keeping the sound kinda low-ish until prepared. I had headphones on and got quite a start.
“ANONYMOUS” By: Jiří Kylián, posted with vodpod
This is cool. I particularly like the way tech inspires new ideas about how the crafting of projects like this materialize. It will be interesting to watch the finished product.
360 Project: Weaving Dance Images into a Movie, posted with vodpod
Que Veux-Tu (Madeon remix) by Yelle
Radio guy: Martin Starr
Dancers: Nathan Barnatt, Jenny Fine.
Madeon – Pop Culture (Dance Video), posted with vodpod
Hamed Nikpay – Beyond Reproach (Pand Az Koja), posted with vodpod
:: The incomparable Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam. I worship this man!
The video of “All Is Not Lost,” created in collaboration by Pilobolus, YouTube sensation OK Go, and choreographer Trish Sie, is released TODAY on NYTimes.com.
OK Go + Pilobolus – All Is Not Lost – Official …, posted with vodpod
Hailed by The Australian as the countrys best modern dance company, choreographer Gideon Obarzaneks Chunky Move dazzles audiences with its use of site-specific installations and interactive sound and light technologies. Obarzanek’s avant-garde performances explore the tensions between the rational world we live in and richness of our imagination.
Gideon Obarzaneks Digital Moves, posted with vodpod
:: Poptech.org
“Magic” Olivia Newton-John & WACCI [OFFICIAL VI…, posted with vodpod
This is so cool! The making of a music video for charity with over 300 volunteer dancers for Olivia Newton-John’s Cancer and Wellness Centre in Australia. The tune is her own “Magic”, and is being produced by WACCI (We’re Australian Creative Collective Inc.) whom the credit notes say have raised over $60,000 for the Centre.
Everyone has volunteered their time and talent which means *ALL* proceeds from sales of this new remix will be going to the Olivia Appeal.
:: You can get your copy of the song here: http://itunes.com/OliviaMagic
White Caps, posted with vodpod
I love this project! Have been following the team for a while now, and I’m glad to see it getting more attention recently. White Caps sold out it’s second run at the Bristol Old Vic in the UK last October they’ve gone out on tour. After performing in Portugal and Holland the show returned to the UK this past weekend with two nights at Birmingham’s DanceXchange.
:: “Stronger” is an extract from White Caps has been screening around the world over the last year. Now the official selection for over 15 festivals across the globe its been seen by audiences in Chile, Spain, Germany, Finland, France, England, Portugal, Italy, Holland and the US. You can see Stronger @ whitecaps.tv.
Dancing is forbidden in Iran. So to show the rest of the world, Ali Moini revolves with a costume made of knives. He turns Sufi style for 20 minutes to condemn this censorship.
Ali Moini – My Paradoxical Knives, posted with vodpod
:: More info about the piece, and Here
Ok Go End Love – Official Video, posted with vodpod
:: Really enjoy stop-motion work. This is well done!
A quick little video improv by Quinn Wharton at Fort Funston:
Fort Funston, posted with vodpod
:: He’s also a very talented photographer
Is coming soon! This year UNESCO’s International Day of Dance falls on a Friday. It would be wonderful to mark the day in some special way.
Here’s the official message for World Dance Day - 29 April 2011:
“For the greatest part of the history of mankind dance was taking place outdoors. People would gather in forest glades, village squares, churchyards, or on threshing floors, to enjoy dancing for hours on end. Nowadays dance is mostly taking place in ballrooms, clubs, theatres, school halls, studios and discotheques.
This year we propose making a step towards nature by celebrating World Dance Day in open spaces: streets, squares, parks, stadiums, beaches, parking lots, clearings – anywhere under the sky.
The urge to dance is a natural impulse, dancers worship nature in their way, they connect with the universe and feel its juices trickle into them.
All through the year we teach dance, we rehearse, we perform within four walls. On this special day dedicated to dance, let us mark the difference by practising, teaching or performing for everyone to see. It might be cold and rainy, the floor is certainly not good enough, the wind takes the music away, but the beauty in those movements and the joy on those faces will brighten the hearts of the spontaneous audience of passers-by.”
Prof. Alkis Raftis
President of the International Dance Council CID
UNESCO, Paris
And this beautiful quote from Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker and an excerpt from one of her pieces:
“I think dance celebrates what makes us human. When we dance we use, in a very natural way, the mechanics of our body and all our senses to express joy, sadness, the things we care about.
People have always danced to celebrate the crucial moments of life and our bodies carry the memory of all the possible human experiences. We can dance alone and we can dance together. We can share what makes us the same, what makes us different from each other.
For me dancing is a way of thinking. Through dance we can embody the most abstract ideas and thus reveal what we cannot see, what we cannot name.
Dance is a link between people, connecting heaven and earth. We carry the world in our bodies. I think that ultimately each dance is part of a larger whole, a dance that has no beginning, and no end.”
Rosas danst Rosas, posted with vodpod
