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in the middle, somewhat elevated - P. III
2008-07-11 5:23AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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I suppose I've rediscovered my obsession with Forsythe - and what a wonderful re-discovery it has been! I'm sure this is due, in part at least, to thinking about my own company...the work that I want to make, the affect I want it to have, and the relationships I want to have with my dancers and my work...basically everything. In being frustrated that my first video-post was taken down, I've been searching just a bit for other clips about this work - and came across this absolutely fantastic recording of a rehearsal. Featured in the 10 minute clip (ALL of which is worth watching) are both the duet I mentioned in the first Forsythe blog, and also the solo posted in the 2nd one. It's wonderful to get an opportunity to see how Forsythe works with his dancers...and perhaps even more so, great to see how the work itself was developed, how the dancers 'figured' things out and etc. Often the process is infinitely more interesting than the performance itself.

However, San Francisco Ballet will be performing this work, January 29 to February 8, 2009, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, if you'd like to see it live.

www.sfballet.org

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtpF7A_o0v0&feature=related

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Marie Jost
留言於2008-07-12 9:05AM [举报]

You are right, the rehearsal footage is quite interesting. It is instructive to see how an artist the caliber of Sylvie approaches this new choreography. She is still working to learn the sequence of steps, and the choreography is quite complicated. Nice to see that I'm not the only dancer who struggles to remember steps (though she's a quick study). But even more than the steps, what I noticed in this clip is the dancers struggling to figure out how to execute the steps, what physical/visual language to imbue them with beyond the simple fact of their execution (how to given them "style" if you will).

The choreographer had very definite ideas about how his choreography should be danced, but it is still up to the dancers to translate what they see him doing into what they need to do with their bodies in space and time to replicate what he wants. Clearly, a lot of what they have done previously, however modern in style, was not quite like this. So there was definitely a learning curve. Clearly, for these dancers, this was a technically demanding piece, and one that stretched their powers of musicality to the limit. They came away from the experience of learning and performing this dance better dancers.
rottendoubt
留言於2008-07-11 12:54PM [举报]

the music is so strange! and the moves are so different from the ballet i've seen...

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Charles Slender is a San Francisco-based international dance artist who has performed, made choreography, and taught in the United States, Russia, Hong Kong, Poland, Latvia, Mexico, and France...
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Charles Slender is a San Francisco-based international dance artist who has performed, made choreography, and taught in the United States, Russia, Hong Kong, Poland, Latvia, Mexico, and France. He is the founder and Artistic Director of FACT/SF - a contemporary dance-theater company based in San Francisco. His choreography, with commissions from art galleries, universities, and dance companies, has been described as "balancing on the edge of kitsch and something more serious...paradoxical and interesting" (Natalia Kurumova, dancenet.ru) and as "sexy...vicious...bizarre" (Ariel Soto, SF Bay Guardian). In addition to his work as a choreographer, Charles teaches contemporary dance technique at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, California and continues to perform, most recently in works by Jesse Hewit, Laura Arrington, and Todd Courage. He was also visiting faculty at the American Dance Festival in 2009 and 2007.

A California native, Charles has continued to work both at home and abroad with commissions by Electric Works Gallery (San Francisco), Dialogue Dance Company (Kostroma, Russia), Acid Rain (Chelyabinsk, Russia), and the Yekaterinburg University of the Humanities (YUH, Yekaterinburg, Russia). In 2007, The Fringe Club (Hong Kong) presented three new works Charles developed in collaboration with Emily Woo Zeller. In 2006 and 2007, he performed with Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia, under the direction of Tatiana Baganova. With Provincial Dances he toured internationally, taught company and master classes, and collaborated on the creation of new works.

Charles graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, with degrees in English Literature and Dance and Performance Studies. While at Berkeley, Charles received the Chancellor's Eisner Award for "highest achievement in the creative arts" and the Hickman Undergraduate Scholarship for "continued excellence and achievement in dance".
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