Sunday, December 09, 2007

These videos are works in themselves.

They are embracing a new aesthetic of communication rampaging through society in a way I can only compare to a bushfire. It is supremely low grade in quality - can you look beyond this? YouTube is there and it's free and it serves a purpose. And i use it. And I also believe that it is beautiful. Hollywood is not necessary here. These videos are totally embarrassing to those in them. But they are accurate depictions of how I am choosing to make my dance. This is how and what will find itself in new contexts on stage. This is where this came from - a bedsit in Kensington, a bedroom in Hackney, Sadlers Wells on a Sunday afternoon, Green Park - all in London. All not paid for. Max rehearsal time was an hour and a half - these videos are the last five minutes. They have absolutely no economy. They are wrapped in love. They are all totally frivolous and totally charming. What you see is exactly what it is context and content wise. No more mysterious methods of dance production - we revel in the world accessible technology - and totally drag our high art into our bedrooms to sit along side the dutty wine, the stookie and any other dance phenomenon you've discovered on YouTube. The unpolished is brilliant.