Really like all of this greatly! I'm surprised - are you still working in this direction? They're wonderful, they transcend their medium!
Thank you! - Alan On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what > I’ve seen and those > dancers I have worked with. > > Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago. > We attended. He moved at many different speeds. > > Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and > attending workshops in London and Brighton > and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz. > > The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and > powerful sense, while becoming aware of how > I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space! > In a small way I began to feel myself in > the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice. > > I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai > expressionist movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly. > > Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA > > Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE > > The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film. > They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative, > filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed. > The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice > recordings, written to accompany the completed > visual material of that film. > > Thanks Alan for the interest! > > Simon > > > > > > > On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > > quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have > seen. > have you done more work like this? Best, Alan > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY >> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015. >> >> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction. >> Featuring >> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume. >> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts. >> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing. >> >> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex. >> >> From a single long improvisation. >> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my spyphone >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > *=====================================================* > > *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org/> tel > 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com/>, sondheim > ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>* > *=====================================================* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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