For Elipsis, The University of British Columbia's graduation exhibition.
EXHIBITION ARTIST STATEMENT
Adage, meaning "at ease", refers to slow, enfolding movements performed with great fluidity and grace. Adage does not refer to the music accompanying the dance but rather the type of balletic movement being performed.
The human body has an amazing capability for movement, which can be recorded by the camera in a completely different way than the human eye can see it. As Susan Sontag believes, a photograph captures a moment in time and freezes it. Any movement is a unique happening that will never be directly replicated in the same way. However movement captured in a photograph can forever exist as an image. This allows the viewer to focus on the form that the body creates through movement, while a live performance has a completely dissimilar aesthetic impact on the viewer. The figures' identifying features are lost in the long photographic exposures due to the distortion caused by their constant movement detaching them from their original form and embedding them into the surrounding landscape.
Ones geographical location plays a role in the identity of a person, connecting one to his or her place on earth. Adage, in a pas-de-deux, is performed as a partner sequence. In pairing the dancer with her surrounding landscape, she uses her body as an extension of the landscape or as an element present in the scene to portray movement in a unique way.
The human body has an amazing capability for movement, which can be recorded by the camera in a completely different way than the human eye can see it. As Susan Sontag believes, a photograph captures a moment in time and freezes it. Any movement is a unique happening that will never be directly replicated in the same way. However movement captured in a photograph can forever exist as an image. This allows the viewer to focus on the form that the body creates through movement, while a live performance has a completely dissimilar aesthetic impact on the viewer. The figures' identifying features are lost in the long photographic exposures due to the distortion caused by their constant movement detaching them from their original form and embedding them into the surrounding landscape.
Ones geographical location plays a role in the identity of a person, connecting one to his or her place on earth. Adage, in a pas-de-deux, is performed as a partner sequence. In pairing the dancer with her surrounding landscape, she uses her body as an extension of the landscape or as an element present in the scene to portray movement in a unique way.