Tag: Dance

Clouds

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Clouds are some of the best storytellers. Leaping hares, dancing embers, ancient gods presenting themselves through rays of light—all gone within a brief moment. Transforming, reshaping into their new forms for an audience of trillions on the earth below.

—  E. Noélle Campbell, misc excerpts

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  • DK Photos @ Cove Island Park at Daybreak on July 8 & 9, 2022. See more pictures from these days here and here.
  • Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on all Channels

Miracle. All of it.

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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

— Martha Graham, Blood Memory: An Autobiography

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  • Quote Source Credit via Alive on All Channels. Thank you Beth.
  • Photo: Alexander Yakovlev – Dancers Frozen in Flour via FreeYork
  • Post title Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.

Hands

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As part of a closing hand-off ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and the 2024 games in Paris, choreographer Sadeck Waff worked with 128 performers in a dizzying performance focused on arms and hands. The French dancer and choreographer has become known for his limb-centric performances which you can watch more of on Instagram. Music by Woodkid. (via This is Colossal)

Thank you Mimi!

it was such a moment of truth

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“Listening to Hania’s music over and over, I began to dream of a single sequence shot that would follow her music floating in the wind of an unreal Icelandic landscape. I asked each dancer to give a personal interpretation of Hania’s song. We were very lucky to succeed in this insane artistic performance despite the great cold (minus 7 celsius), it was such a moment of truth. Shot in Iceland on February 23, 2020”. —  Neels Castillon, Director

Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (Up!)

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Notes:

  • Inspired by Natalie Portman, 2015 Harvard Commencement Speech: “It was instructive for me to see that for ballet dancers — once your technique gets to a certain level — the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks,” Portman said. “Or even, flaws … You can never be the best technically. Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.”