Its Garen working in DC the very first time with Dr.Bacon (Hence the title). I would get phone calls from Garen telling me how much we all need to work together and how much I would love working with Dr.Bacon. After getting back from DC Garen showed me the material and he was not exaggerating at ALL.
Next Tuesday we have a film showing of a piece we did a couple years ago titled “Triam” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. “Triam” is a film with Garen and I dancing a couple years ago. This marks our first big scale showing of any of our films in San Francisco alongside some other gifted and talented artist’s as part of the West Wave Dance Festival. Ever since moving here I have always wanted to have some of my work shown at the YBCA but what can you do with no material? Anyone who is in town should come check us out. The viewing will be followed by a Q&A with the two of us. Below is a link for more info. Hope to see you there.
Oh, I decided that anyone who chooses to come, we will be selecting 3 random people to receive a HD quality film of un-seen material or a booklet of some photography with various collaborators:P
Former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Damien Woetzel gives Mo Rocca a ballet lesson, and together they make a new ballet about WMD….. or cookies.
MR: “Do you think if our world leaders studied dance, there’d be greater peace in the world?”
DW: “I do think the ability to waltz, is very conducive to being even-tempered.”
First of all… how amazing is the dancing in this video? Second of all - it does seem a lot like breakdance style, no? (fyi, the title is from YouTube, not me).
The next video is a remix/video response to different music, which seems to work just as well, if not better….
I love how different music (and sometimes a little editing) can completely change a work.
Even though I live in Israel, I still check out the New York Times (especially the arts section), and today they had an article about Matt Harding’s dance video on YouTube. Here it is in case you haven’t stumbled across it yet - I thought you might get a kick out of it (and maybe you’ll see your home city in it - the clip from Tel Aviv is at Kikar Dizengoff, around the corner from my flat!).
After seeing probably 50+ dances in the last week (I’m serious - besides the Machol Bamidbar extravaganza in the desert, I went to several end-of-year school performances and concerts back in the Tel Aviv area), I couldn’t manage to keep my eyes open this weekend to see anything else. It’s too bad that I’m on dance overload, since the 3rd annual International VideoDance Festival had three days of programming at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Ah well . . . next year, I suppose!
