1min 20 sec, 3:4, 2011
Screened at
Movimento Kino, Berlin, May 2011 – The 7th International Dance Film Festival in Budapest, 15-18 November 2011,
http://www.wsf.hu/edit/honlap2011/index_en.html – Terminal 08, Gorzow, April-May 2012
This video project is based on the book “Der Künsterlische Tanz Unserer Zeit” by H. & M. Aubel, 1928, looking at expressionist dance of the 1920’s, and the methods and ideas of Laban, Wigman, Jooss, and Bodenwieser. This a significant period for experimental dance. Dancers became more concerned with personal and communal freedom of expression through the use of their body movement.
I have been working with the concept of movement for many years, exploring my own movement possibilities, finding ways to express and fulfill a personal need to use the body, and in this case re-creating and re-configuring moves from past documented images.
I copy and combine poses, and translate them to develop my own version and narrative. I construct different sequences, and in this specific instance, with the aim of creating a channel of bodily expression and exploration for non-dancers.
A large part of the project is about the trying and failing, the determination to figure out what the body can do, is capable and incapable of acting out, to manage and — maybe to a point- learn a new skill, to re-discover possibilities of composition. This is a study by repetition, looking at difference, and physical communication, which finally results in a channel for using the body.
The process is of the essence, and the video act as a carrier/document of a journey, playful, but with a slightly serious underline.
Movers: Sascha Bausch and Laila Evensen
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