Madison, WI, Performance Video

topic posted Wed, May 2, 2007 - 6:57 AM by  Nataraj
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Hey Dancers!

My dance partner Megan uploaded the video of "Contraption" - the contact improv/trapeze fusion piece performed by Megan and Nataraj (me) in the recent 'Shapes & Latitudes' show at the Mazomanie Movement Arts Center - at YouTube.com. Here's the link:
www.youtube.com/watch

Bunny Wars, Megan's hilarious piece with Rand, is also up. (that link is: www.youtube.com/watch

Turn up the volume and enjoy!
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Nataraj
Wisconsin
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  • Thank you for posting this and for your lovely exploratory nature!

    If you were to do this again, I would love to see the trapeze as more of a third partner. About 3/4 of the way through you had a moment with this and it was soooooo delicious and considerate. Otherwise it felt less like a fusion and more like two styles bumping into each other, as there were (fastly switching) clear moments where Contact was going on and clear moments where Trapeze was happening. Is it possible to take the feelings and elements of Trapeze and replicate them in CI? And vice-versa with CI into the Trapeze?

    Dig deeper into this fusion, my friends, and FLY FLY FLY!

    YUM YUM and LOVE,
    Lynn
    • Thanks for the feedback, Lynn. Megan and I were hoping to keep the emphasis on CI, especially the improv. The aerial troupe we take classes from likes to have long poses on the trapeze, but we were deliberately resisting that. What we started with as a concept was to keep the entire idea of CI going even if we were on the trap. Obviously we didn't achieve that, partly because all of the feedback during rehearsals (from aerial dancers) was, "Oh, hold that pose a little longer..." *laughs* The piece that was preceding us in the show was a floor duet of slow transitions from pose to pose, and that also took us a bit away from exploring more of the pause-and-pose possibilities during the floor-based CI. There were only 10-weeks of rehearsals, 1x per week, and we got maybe 20-30 minutes of apparatus time, so I really feel like we made a good start in that time. Both of us are looking forward to continuing this exploration.

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