Dancing with D.C.

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Dancing with D.C. is part of my series of small dances with big cities.It is a short film of contemporary dance doc in three sections, which reflect, embody and subvert the dynamic interaction between individuals movements and their environment. The basic idea behind the work emerged from my love for cities.

As conceived, location is simply an address, a geographic coordinate like longitude and latitude; place concerns a sense of existing in one area as compared to another (i.e., its uniqueness from the view of the occupier/observer); movement concerns how humans extend through space. By highlighting interactions between the diverse elements, we are left with a better understanding of each as well as how they relate to one another in combination.

The use of film and dance are ideal for such an exploration because they each offer distinct insights into human awareness of/experience with geography. Film allows us to actually record individuals, activities and context in a visual and dynamic manner but reliant upon a camera which at once facilitates and mediates. Dance allows us to more intuitively express human emotions in a manner that is again visual and dynamic but, given its use of the human form, it does so in more way that is at once more personal and less abstract because of its physicality.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• nejla
• yatkin
• dance
• contemporary
• Washington
• D.C.
• Fela
• Kuti
• modern
• site
• specific

[neodancer]

This is amazing. I've been dying to do something like this in my own city.

[aljen07]

what's the name of your city?

[aljen07]

we practiced with music but onsite we did it without the music. The background music is added to it later......

[ellyp7]

I'm showed it to my students many of whom live in DC! They loved it. Elly

[gamzecakmak]

Beautiful! What about the music? Is there music while they dance?