slow dancing

slow dancing
Originally uploaded by bluepupae.

after deciding it was silly to kill myself finishing up the latest project for a juried show deadline and better to take my time, i went with mike to the music center in downtown LA on the last night of the slow dancing installation.

David Michalek, a filmmaker, produced this series of 43 slow motion video portraits of dancers that are randomly played over four screens. each portrait stretches out 5 seconds of a dance movement captured by a high speed camera to about 10 mins. there is no sound other than that of the spectators milling about.

the experience was sort of a meditation on dance. one could see in detail the gestures of the bodies as they slowly jumped, turned and moved like they were under water. the way the fabric and hair moved in response to, with and sometimes against the body was fascinating.

we were there for a couple of hours, but were not able to see all of the 43 dancers. more information about the project is availble here.