TREK 3...IN PLACE
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
  Can Trees Dance?

These trees dance. I wonder if they have a rhythm of their own or if they are responding to other forces. Imagine if they danced like this...
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Something gets starting in this one, in the first swish pans especially. You have made 4 very brief moments very "material" (or visceral just as your question supposes). How can you expand on this phenomenon and learn from it? Can you apply some development principles you use as choreographer? How many frames long is each? In what direction does each gesture go? With Avid DV Free you can layer 2 video tracks in real time. Does this give you any ideas? What if the sound passages got swapped around-- that is-- disassociated with, out of sync with their parent shots? What affects would this have on the rhythm? Yes, "imagine," and then make the dance.
 
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I wanted to find new perspectives on movement without moving around the city. This trek kept me at home. I looked at trees, shadows and objects and found imagery that moved. What seemed to be imperceptibly still somehow gave me new perspectives on movement outside of my usual, visceral experience.

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I am a dancer, choreographer, teacher and student living in New York City. I am currently working on an MFA at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and am on faculty at NYU. Keep an eye out for my dance group, Gerald Casel Dance...

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