Sunday 2 December 2007

charactermotion's Cartwheel Motion (DanceForms)


The simplicity of this clip was appealing; with no other distractions, full focus was given to the image and the choreography. The cartwheel was attractive and interesting to watch, mainly due to its delicacy; Kaiser notes that an incentive for Bill T. Jones to engage with this type of work was its ability to show a more vulnerable body.
Contrastingly, Kaiser himself feels that a downside of this practice is its limitations; it is obviously artificial and only ever a substitute for a human body. It seems inevitable then that we desire the real human body, instead of a digital version; or alternatively, we ask even more of technology.
It should be noted that technology need not replicate the human body and its dance to achieve more realism however. Theodores expresses that dance developed through exploring the human body and its movement in what were seen as unnatural ways, such as cartwheeling. Technology then, has the opportunity to develop its own digital dance and choreography, other to the known and accepted dance of humans, and far beyond the restrictions of physical dance.

1 comment:

Edward Scheer said...

yeah ... how do you see movement or think movement? and not simply displacements in static positions... I think this kind of thing, in its lack of distractions as you say, asks us to think this through a bit...

ed