The Bolshoi Ballet is probably the world’s leading dance company with two schools forging future ballet stars. One is in Moscow, and the other is in faraway Brazil! The Bolshoi ballet school in the remote city of Joinville was conceived as a grand social project for deprived children. Pupils, who are mostly from low-income families, train in a rigorous eight-year programme for free so they can get out of poverty and perform professionally. Watch the full video on our website […]
AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier JULIE: “Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions. I wanted to share my biggest pain in this life with this film. For this is not too crude, I covered it with grace. To make it not too heavy, I plunged it into the water. I dedicate this film to all the women […]
KAIJI MORIYAMA KATANA Dancer Kaji Moriyama, early masterpiece “KATANA”. A short document produced with the video of the premiere at the re-performance in October 2016. For the first time in 10 years, Kaji Moriyama’s past and present challenge the limit of physical expression. Please have a look! [Tokyo Performance] 2016/10/7 (Friday) 19:30 8 (Sat) 14:00 9 (Sunday) 14:00 [Setagaya Public Theater (Sangenjaya) [Hiroshima Performance] 2016/10/15 (Sat) 18:00 JMS Aster Plaza Naka Hall Performance Special Site http://katana2016.wixsite.com/katana via google translate
The Man Behind The Dance Documentary 2019 The Man Behind The Dance’ is a film by David Van Hoesen and Thibault Weewauters. The music in this documentary is composed by Timmy Ropero. In this two parted short-documentary LaVelle Smith Jr., the choreographer of Michael Jackson, talks for the first time ever openly over ‘The King of Pop’, Michael Jackson. LaVelle is a five times MTV Music Award winner and worked with many superstars like George Michael, Diana Ross, Beyonce, Rolling […]
Cecil Taylor on creation Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 – April 5, 2018) *Rhythm-sound energy found in the amplitude of each time unit. Time measurement as isolated matter abstracted from mind, transformed symbols thru conductor, agent speaking in angles: a movement vacuum death encircling act, defining nothing Pythagorean desert a waste land lit deafness before ultimate silent arena senses ride naked in souls. Would then define the pelvis as cathartic region prime undulation, ultimate communion, internal while life is […]
dancer: TALIYA BRIANNA cinematography|edit|direction|concept: KEATH I wanted it to feel like a music box. This choreography was for her college admission audition. the actual piece is more fully developed/performed than what we did here. We were sketching trying to develop a vernacular that fuses her movement with film/video. it was difficult performing in the sand with her footing…but i was really happy with the footage and more importantly just being out there filming with the sisters and mom. it was […]
Photo: AKITOSHI MIZUTANI Studying the form in Madrid, Mizuki Wildenhahn worked as a flamenco dancer in Hamburg, but increasingly combined rhythmic and motor elements of flamenco with genres of other genres in her projects, thus developing her own kind of percussive dance. Today she works with artists of various styles such as Jazz, rock and experimental and freely improvised music more here:http://mizukiwildenhahn.tumblr.com/