Poster Templates
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In-Class Discussion/Activity
Students Presentations: Final Video Project on Site Specific Art is due today!
Then, after class we will attend the 7:30PM- Performance: of Run Don’t Run at Brooklyn Academy of Music (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Check http://www.bam.org/visit for directions
Choreographer Brian Brooks and company explore the spatial contradictions of bodies in rapid motion, transgressing the laws of time and space behind hundreds of cloth strands stretched across the stage. Brian Brooks is a daring choreographer, concocting precise, kinetic, and volatile sequences of movement that test the threshold of physical endurance. In Run Don’t Run, Brooks (recently awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship) employs rapid-fire partnering to explore the spatial contradictions of bodies in motion. Behind a blur of color—created by hundreds of cloth strands stretched across the stage—dancers ricochet off one another in a strobe-like flurry of actions: captured, suspended, and broken apart. Microphones installed throughout the space pick up every sound, amplifying the laws of gravity and inertia, as the dancers transgress space and time.
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Reading:
Nicholas Mirzoeff, An Introduction to Visual Culture, Introduction.
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Assignment (DUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 28TH)
Blog Writing Assignment #4: On Dance Performance Run Don’t Run: How does the combination of acrobatics, modern dance, and music contribute to the performance by this company?
