hmmmmm, re-thinking

After meeting and talking to a few dancers and being let down by a few dancers, I'm considering other possibilities for my film. I don't nessarcarily need to use a professional dancer, the movements can be fairly simple and still be classified as "dance". I'm going to focus more on creating impact through the filming techniques I use, and less on the actual movement. I could include different componants (as in Pull by Bruce Mclean, David Proud, Ashley Page, Jane Thorburn and Mark Lucas).

"What the Body Does Not Remember became a very physical performance. It won a Bessie Award in New York and suddenly everybody called it 'dance', while actually the piece was not created by professional dancers, we were not working with the 'contemporary' dance language from that time. The result was a movement language created by the performers and myself. Over all these years, and with the different crews I have worked with, we have kept on developing this language." - Wim Vandekeybus

These are some photos I found on a flyer I had for the Rambert Dance Compnay's perfrmance of World View. I really like them, I'm not entirely sure how they are done.

Wim Vandekeybus

Wim Vandekeybus' mainly draws his inspiration from the world surrounding us and life in all its aspects. Encounters with nature, people, different movement forms and styles, music, film, literature, theatre, … form the seeds for his creations.

interview with London Dance:
You originally trained in psychology. What impact has that had on the kind of work you make?
I studied psychology at university during 2 years, but never finished these studies or practiced it professionally. So, in fact I only got the theoretical part. My work is more the result of intuition, the intuitive psychology that everyone has in his/her way.
Who, or what, are your main influences?
My youth experiences, writers, photographers (koudelka), cineasts (Kalatozov, Cassavetes, Imamura, ...), encounters with people, the world around us, ...
Film is often an integral part of Ultima Vez performances - and the films also stand alone. What is your process? Do you consciously make two works - a film and a performance - or does one emerge from the other?
This depends, I made several short films as part of my performances, in which the themes of the performance were approached from a different angle, or that were part of the scenography. With film you can create a strong context/past of the people on scene and thus enrich there existence. Next to the short films, I also made dance films adaptations of my performances.

Becuase of all the faffing about with dancers, I hadn't actually produced any actual work so I made this video today just to play around really.

MOTION CONTROL

Choreographer: Liz Aggiss
Director: David Alexande Anderson

The Snowball Effect

Choreographed by the V-TOL Dance Company for the Dance For The Camra series on BBC2.
Director: Brett Turnball
The music is the driving force behind this peice, the deep bass makes it all so exciting, almost like a chase scene. Its in soft focus, the clours and the light are very important -very soft, yellow, warm colours, the light bleeding into the hall they are in, makes it look very dramatic. theres also a secion in it where its all slow motion with added motion blurrs on the characters, theres also red lighting, all of this completely shifts the mood.

Still You, Dir: Mijke Dejong, choreographers: Suzy Blok & Christopher Steel

Janneque Draisma

These videos are fantastic!
The music and sounds she uses as well go so well with the visuals.
Janneque Draisma is a Dutch choreographer/dancer and director. After an education in classical dance, she studied painting and film in Amsterdam. She then went to Paris where she took lessons in 'corporal mime'! In 1992 she received the prize for 'Best Actress' (Golden Calf) at the Dutch Film festival. Since then Janneque performed in several films, participated in a number of opera productions. At the same time she continued realizing and producing experimental films and theatre performances for which she founded her production company `The Draft Foundation' in 1995. At the moment Janneque is gradually developing three feature film scripts, which she will also direct: a Dutch film, a French musical and an Italian film. She is also a photographer and actress.


This is a picture of her as a sea monster (?)