Video: A mix of dance, architecture and ping-pong in Why Patterns
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In feature films there is such a hackneyed cliche when a person steps on the balls scattered (intentionally or accidentally) on the floor, begins to lose balance and fall. But the loss of balance in such a case is not at all terrible for the participants. dance performance Why Patterns, shown these days as part of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Beckett, Massachusetts.
A few months ago we told you about the opera festival in the Austrian city of Bregenz, known primarily for its transforming stage, located on a platform in the middle of the lake. The dance performance Why Patterns (literally translated - Why Models), created jointly by American choreographer Jonah Bokaer and New York experimental architecture studio Snarkitecture, will also become famous for the stage. Rather, stage solutions.
Snarkitecture studio invited Iona Boker to create a performance based on ping-pong balls. Of course, not the plot will be based on them at all, but the stage decisions and choreography of this action. By and large, on stage, except for these balls and the dancers themselves, there will be nothing. Is that even special tubes in which these balls will initially be located.
At the beginning of the Why Patterns dance show, there will be one dancer on the stage, on which a cloud of ping-pong balls will fall from the ledge. This is where the fascinating dance performance will begin. This dancer and others who will soon appear on the stage will interact with each other and with plastic balls, making them an integral, backbone component of the performance. And all this with unimaginable plasticity and experimental dance actions of the actors.
Moreover, each show of a dance performance (there will be five in total - from 3 to 7 August 2011) will differ significantly from the rest, just as the pattern of ping-pong balls scattered across the stage will differ.
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