Exciting, intriguing and visually arresting. The colours in the outfits and the pattern of the tables are economical & work really well, the filming is tight and muscular and the movement is thrilling. Wowza.
Jeeeez...This piece never fails to leave me awestruck!!! I think it premiered in 2000, and it loses absolutely nothing with the passage of time! A work of true choreographic genius!!
-- Certes pas une œuvre majeure mais bravo aux danseurs pour leur énergie et leur dextérité dans ces pas de danse en périmètre réduit, et à leur parfaite maitrise de ces obstacles. --
Choreographed by one of the world’s foremost choreographers, One Flat Thing, reproduced has a great theatrical intensity that oscillates between disorder and symmetry. The organizational structures are examined in the online score Synchronous Objects: synchronousobjects.osu.edu as part of Forsythe’s wider project; Motion Bank: motionbank.org
PNB did a great job with this. It's interesting to see the video with diferent angles of it. It's more accessible if you are already familiar with the dancers, for me anyway. And I seriously like modern dance better when it's performed by ballet dancers, is that wrong?
Not at all! I am a classically trained ballet dancer who loves experimenting with a "corruption" of classic style. Give me punk music, jazz, experimental. I'll dance to it.
I can understand why you'd feel that way. It really can be put into the category of both. To achieve the level of physical control and accuracy(with other bodies, and objects in the space) these dancers have to be highly skilled like an athlete. You may feel that you need to understand something, but there is no "message' really. It is simply an extraordinary feat. Like watching a gymnast in action approach the parallel barres and looking on with amazement at that kind of accuracy!
