Rave - 6th Movement Excerpt (2001)

Rave Excerpt (2001)
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Shea
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos


Rave is a celebratory happening by choreographer Karole Armitage mixing dance, capoeira (a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, dance, and music), voguing (an underground African-American and custom of social performance and fashion show appropriation begun in Harlem in the 1960s), wushu (Chinese martial arts), and catwalk for 26 dancers in iconic costumes ranging from Marilyn Monroe to an American Indian chief. All of the dancers paint their bodies in bright colors from head to toe -- skin is orange, purple, green, gray, blue. Rave is constructed on Vogue Dance twisted through the lens of mixing many different movement forms into a celebration of life as a combination of ball, ballet and carnival for the 21th century.

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