pherank Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 We now get a brief look at Justin Peck's THE DECALOGUE with Music by Sufjan Stevens at NYC Ballethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7jXp0qFz0Y The video has a great 1940s Modernist feel to it - reminds me of two Maya Deren shorts:A Study In Choreography For Camera (1945)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9D3e12rq9c&spfreload=10Ritual in Transfigured Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyYI7i3FVM&spfreload=10 I just hope that the full ballet is able to retain some of this feel. But who knows what it will really be like? Link to comment
Quiggin Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Thanks for posting the Maya Deren films, pherank, and pointing out the similarities. Deren was very influential when I was in film school – there was that Botticelli image of her on the cover of Film Culture that you'd see pinned up as a poster in dorms and apts. Didn't realize she worked with Anais Nin (brief shot of Nin at 2:40 in "Ritual in Transfigured Time"). Beautiful series of cuts of the dancer at the end of "Study." Peck's film looks as if it was shot on real film stock which is great. Perhaps the beginning of a "slow" dance film movement: without color, without digital, without Steadycam? Edited April 15, 2017 by Quiggin Link to comment
pherank Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 2 hours ago, Quiggin said: Peck's film looks as if it was shot on real film stock which is great. Perhaps the beginning of a "slow" dance film movement: without color, without digital, without Steadycam? Reminds me a bit of the photographs of George Platt Lynes. Although it's impossible to tell from this video what the true character of the ballet is like, I found it encouraging to see that Peck might actually be using moments of slow interplay, and choreography for the arms, hands, perhaps even the fingers! Glory hallelujah! It may not be only bodies hurtling through the air at fastest possible speed. Maybe he's starting to develop a deep vocabulary of the musculature of the body. Or not. Link to comment
pherank Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 The NYCB Instagram page states: "The trailer for Justin Peck's new ballet The Decalogue was shot on 16 mm black and white film with a Bolex camera. The dancers embraced the element of the unknown that comes with the analog medium. The Decalogue premieres MAY 12 with additional performances MAY 14, 18, 20 eve." Link to comment
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