I have always been obsessed with the idea of beauty and how when you’re looking for it; it’s everywhere around you. It can be anything from the way sunlight falls on a tree in the autumn to a moment in play or a look in someone’s eye. I feel that art whether it be performance or a painting or photograph is a way of capturing these moments of beauty in little snippets. An example of where moments of beauty are expressed through performance is in contemporary dance. As I’ve expressed in previous blogs contemporary dance is something I have a real passion for as I feel it’s a form of performance that truly comes from the choreographer and dancers heart and is a fantastic way of showing moments of beauty without even saying a word. A piece of choreography that really captured me is a piece called “In Line” by Robert Skoro performed at Circe Phoenix. The dancers names are Sebastein Soldevila and Emilie Bonnavaud From Les 7 doigts de la main/The 7 Fingers Track Used : Robert Skoro - In Line http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qboQZiAVAfk
“ I have no energy left after watching it and each time it's the same... it makes me cry and laugh and cry again ... This is simply incredible ... It's a wonderful world ...”
TheAndrutzzza 2 months ago, Youtube.com
“Wow! I'm speechless. This is absolutely beautiful and amazing!”
flyergym 2 months ago, youtube.com
This is a piece I first found on a friends wall on facebook. She had posted it for the same reason I love the piece; purely because its beauty had really captured her. There are so many moments of pure emotion in this piece and the freedom the dancers bring to the piece is can only be described as beautiful. This is the type of work that inspires me to create my own and is part of why I love my profession. So many moments of beauty can be captured in such a piece and the way it touches an audience is incredible.
“Wow....the contrast of looseness, power, and sheer athleticism...not including the amazing choreography...
MIND BLOWING...HEARTWRENCHING...I'M DYING OVER HERE!!!”
This piece is just one example of many displaying how art is used to capture beauty and moments of pure magic.
Two people I really admire and inspire me to get whatever I can out of a script and find those magical moments in pieces are two of my former acting teachers from drama school; Chris Donelly and Dan Winter. They both trained at Bristol Old Vic and as well as teaching part time are working actors; mainly Chekov and Shakespeare on stage. I have seen them both perform on stage and the passion they bring to their teaching is completely reflected in their work on stage. They both have the ability to pull apart a script and really bring something magical to it which completely captures an audience.
“Chris Donnelly's Iago is the most restrained and unshowy I've encountered, and this makes the seeping of his poison into Othello's mind all the more compelling and credible.” The Guardian ****
“I have seen more wicked Iago’s but none so businesslike as Chris Donnelly’s passed-over NCO, whose crisp manner conceals a heart of bile. There’s a depth to his evil that is unknown even to him.”
The Independent ****
The Independent ****
When working on pieces myself I often feel frustrated at not being able to find the missing piece to make something work. I find that looking at how other people have performed a piece very helpful. Often looking at something from a completely different perspective can help unearth something better than what you were initially trying to achieve. I always remember from working on monologues in drama school tutors always saying “there’s no right way only different ways of looking at it” which is completely true. There are so many moments you can get from a piece and only by taking different views on it you can find those little bits of beauty. This is something that is not easy to understand and maybe we shouldn’t understand a piece fully as there are so many interpretations and different pieces bring out different emotions in different people. There is a lot of beauty in the world and different ways of trying to capture a small part of its magic. All we need to do is open our eyes and take what we can from it.
Hi Ceri after watching that youtube video I can see the beauty that you saw!If ever were a performance to represent beauty and magic that was it.I'm left feeling completely moved, my heart is racing with excitment.I have so much respect for the choreography and shear disbelief it what I was watching.I felt such intense emotions from the two performers thank you for sharing this video.What a truly inspiring performance!
ReplyDeleteThankyou for your comment Rebecca. It's amazing how a piece such as this can inspire such emotion in a viewer. Im glad you were able to see the beauty in it as I do; it truly is a magical piece of choreography. I hope it's inspired you as much as it did me and am glad to have been able to share it with you. The dancers show amazing physical and emotional commitment!
ReplyDeleteWow the clip was amazing! It's just as you explained it truly beautiful and very moving. One of my teachers at college, Stuart Arnold choreographed alot of dances that used the music with movements to move an audience with a story or emotions being portrayed. It's very true what you learnt, there are no wrong ways just different ways and it's always a good idea to look at how other people have performed certain pieces to help ourselves sometimes find that missing link needed!! I never really use you tube, but with what I've seen linked from your blog, and realising how it can help I think I will start to investigate and search abit more!!
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