This is so moving. It is impossible to not have an emotional response to it. It is very absorbing and mesmerizing...! Powerful performance from both Sylvie and Niklas. Amazing work.
I know little about modern dance other than I rarely like it. It seems high risk - playing out in the same space/ time stuff as us. The artistry, courage and trust has to occupy every second, every inch, every night, to work. A single flaw in one can splinter the illusion into pantomime and running around to music. But, when it works, like here, it comes closest of all artforms to revealing the essence of the human soul. Thank you, ValeBjork, for posting this overwhelming work.
Dance as a complete language; it's own voice, it's own consonants, it's own parables. Someone once said music can say what words can't, that is why it's almost inhuman. And dance can make you live those things which music says.
I loved it!! :) I do definitely think you have to understand dance to watch this..It's beautiful, poetic, and I enjoyed every second of watching it! :) But if I showed it to my brother for instance who plays baseball I could see him saying WTF...lol :)
Thank you for posting.I only have a short excerpt from this dance which I recorded off of The South Bank Show in the '90's.They did a program about Sylvie Guillem.I wish it was available on dvd,as my copy is quite poor.
Well that was interesting; awesome work, the man looking like a younger Andy Warhol added to the mystery for me. He's quite flexible! I'd like to see more of his dance work.
i keep watching this. day after day. it speaks to me so amazingly. a young male dancer myself. this man inspires me greatly. i want to know more about him but find nothing. what else has Niklas Ek performed in
There is something about this that transcends time and emotion ... poetry, vision, dance, life, all wrapped up together in a breathless, selfless act of art.
Certianly, this is too abstract for my small, feeble, teenage mind to grasp.The dancing was definitely brilliant but the small tid bits wear the camera would go crazy an repeat a section of someone shaking or something, I was confused... Or am I supposed to feel confused?? Curse you, art!
