Grosse Fuge excerpt from Kinok [1] [2]
Beethoven's Grosse Fugue will never be the same for me after I saw this entire work perfomed live at Mershon Auditorium back in the 1990s.This woman gets the architecture of music and dance. Her dancers get it, too. The stage at Mershon was [2]raked [3]. This is an old theatrical architecture. Now audience's sit in a raked auditorium rather than having the dancers and actors work on a slanted surface. This, by the way, is the explanation for upstage and downstage - they literally were up and down. So in this bit in the film, when you see the dancers roll downstage, they were literaly rolling downstage toward the audience.
Rosas: choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker [2]
more work by de Keersmaeker
Rain [4]
Ottone, Ottone [5]
FASE, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich [6]
And a longer work for film Rosas danst Rosas [7]
Oh if we could only see these European choreographers here...
Links:
[1] http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/mediatheque/videos/videosDetails.asp?mediaID=454
[2] http://www.rosas.be/Menu1/ATDK/tabid/61/language/en-US/Default.aspx
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_(theatre)
[4] http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/mediatheque/videos/videosDetails.asp?mediaID=456
[5] http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/mediatheque/videos/videosDetails.asp?mediaID=453
[6] http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/mediatheque/videos/videosDetails.asp?mediaID=377
[7] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6867886518503406188&q=%E2%80%9CRosas+danst+Rosas%E2%80%9D&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
[8] http://realneo.us/blog/susan-miller/dance-video-of-the-day-talking
[9] http://realneo.us/content/dance-video-day
[10] http://realneo.us/blog/susan-miller/blazin-get-off-your-chair-dance-video-of-the-day