Fame or Famine

The Perfect Melding of Dance and Technology

by Gray on March 20th, 2007

I’ve got Greenfield’s Breaking Bounds calendar at my desk, the 3rd one I’ve owned. I love the magic of a good photograph capturing the moment of dance. Especially when the artist (like Greenfield) is so good at capturing the moment that they both capture the timelessness of the dancer’s expression and a bit of the movement that is conveyed by it.

Somehow, someway, I’ve got to get to Lincoln Center before this comes down:

"Earlier this month, Lincoln Center Festival organizers announced that the festival’s 2007 offerings will include photographer David Michalek’s outdoor installation "Slow Dancing," to be displayed on the façade of New York State Theater. The work is composed of 45 films of dancers moving at speeds so slow the images look like photographs. But only at first."

"The films — of just five seconds worth of movement — were shot at super-high speed and replayed at a speed that makes each film 10 minutes long. The result is movement so slow that if you glance at the video, your eye initially perceives a photograph. But look at the image longer and it moves at a rate that allows you to watch the minutia of each step breath by breath. It solves the dance photography problem and goes one further: The slowness of the moving image allows us to see the steps with detail that is impossible to see in real time."

In other news, EQ Lateral contacted me and I think I’ll get to interview them more in-depth soon. If you are in the Seattle area, you can catch them at the Columbia City Theatre:

Sunday 3/25 7:30 Columbia City Theater - Musical Journey show with sundry guest appearances from various Seattle musicians

Wednesday 4/25 8:00 Columbia City Theater - Silent Movie Show

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