Bo Dancing

Gender Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2004

Concept and dance: Deborah Anné
Camera and editing: Eddie Van Der Velden
Music: Dopplereffekt

Featured in MaMa Gallery Rotterdam 2005
text by Ken Pratt:

On one level it comes over as a pop video: the sinewy movements of the dancer, her iconic Ipod headphones wedged firmly in her ears, as she shimmies and shakes her way through various landscapes in time to the beat. If she were singing, we would readily accept her as a pop star; the work as a pop video. Even without singing, we might readily accept the work as a pop video for a dance band if it came in a box giving that information. But it is neither. It is a moving image portrait of a private individual. The inclusion of her dance movements relates to a practice of drawing on personal interests in an age-old tradition of portraiture. The drive to capture the essential qualities of a person, almost classical in approach, has been transferred from a static medium to one that moves.

"Bo Dancing" is not what is first seems. It is not a pop video. But we would not be stupid for wondering.

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• studies

[poorlee]

does the movement of each individual reflect their own internal makeup of thoughts and experiences of the world around them? This maybe a valid contribution . All I can conclude is , such a fine arse!

[is15land]

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