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What would it mean for choreography to perform as an exhibition? That is the question at the origin of Work/Travail/Arbeid, a newly commissioned project by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Straightforward as it may seem, the implications unsettle both how contemporary dance and the art exhibition are conventionally thought, constructed, and experienced.
20 March–17 May 2015 WIELS, Brussels
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"Masculinity as a socially constructed identity is not a stable entity, but one made up of conflictual and contradictory aspects.”
Those are the words of Ramsay Burt, author of The Male Dancer, and they are part of the inspiration behind Amy Elkins' stunning photography series, "Danseur." For the project, she captured portraits of young male dancers in Copenhagen, Denmark, moments after intensive training. The subjects, ages 12 to 28, stare purposefully at the camera or glance wistfully into the distance, projecting diverse interpretations of what it means to be a masculine athlete.
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In her heyday, Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized within the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her status in dance still inspires regard. In this, the first extended feminist look at this modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a feminist lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her work. Thoms synthesizes a diverse archive of material on Graham from films, photographs, memoir, and critique in order to uniquely highlight her contribution to the dance world and arts culture in general.
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"Defining the art of butoh dance defies the very purpose of the art, in a way. Developed in Japan in the post-WWII era, butoh is at once highly expressive and deeply meditative, an intense interpretive dance that uses strength and contortion to explore any topic that the dancer wishes to express. Joan Laage, one of the most accomplished butoh dancers to ever come out of the United States, will be performing her latest show, “The Engendering Project: Casting Shadows” at the Velocity Dance Center this weekend in three parts. [...]
“What does ‘male’ and ‘female’ mean? When we look at movements and postures, what seems more male or female?” Laage was asked to examine at the genesis of “The Engendering Project.” An associate of hers was in the process of writing a book about artists and the artistic process; she asked Laage to concentrate on the issues of gender perceptions through the lens of butoh, the medium that she often employs. [...]"
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So you want to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling, writes Luke Jennings
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"I am interested in what we know about things through our bodies,” says Simone Forti, who was born in Florence in 1935 but has mostly lived in Los Angeles since 1938, with extended stays in New York and other places. The exhibition presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the seminal work of this influential artist, choreographer, dancer, and writer. In addition to numerous performances, many of them presented in live enactments, Forti’s sculptures, drawings, works with holograms and sound, and videos demonstrate her strikingly broad creative range. She is regarded as a key figure in postmodern dance and pioneer of Minimal art—she personally likes to describe herself as a “movement artist.”
Simone Forti. Thinking with the body: a Retrospective in Motion 18 July - 9 November 2014 Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
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LONDON.- Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer (born 1934, lives in New York) is widely acknowledged as having played a key role in revolutionising post-war dance, inspiring generations of performers. In the sixties and early seventies, initially as part of the Judson Theater in New York (alongside Simone Forti, Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown), Rainer made dance works that were concerned with social and political form. Her choreography incorporated 'ordinary' movement and ‘neutral’ performance, rethinking the performer-audience relationship.
Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works Raven Row, London http://www.ravenrow.org/current/yvonne_rainer/
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New Orleans-based contemporary performance artist Heather Hansen's work is the perfect union of dance and drawing. Her whole body moves in light and fluid dance-like motions and, just with little pieces of charcoal, she draws stunning one-of-a-kind symmetrical patterns and abstract forms on large sheets of paper.
Hansen’s work can be seen in a group exhibition called The Value Of Line at The Ochi Gallery in Katchum, Idaho, USA, till 31st March, 2014.
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"Since Tamara Rojo's appointment as artistic director of English National Ballet, the former ballerina has proved a natural at working the media. From last year's collaboration with Vivienne Westwood, to this week's clever signing of former Royal Ballet star Alina Cojocaru, Rojo has kept ENB regularly in the news.
Then came her comments in Time Out, comparing the attitude of male choreographers with that of makers of pornography. Rojo's argument, if you read below the screech of headlines, is a serious one, directed at the differences between male and female choreographers and the reasons why so few of the latter are working in ballet. Yet with one effortless flick of a porn reference, she's spun this rather specialist issue right into the middle of the media's attention."
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"The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emancipation..."
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