Choregraphy: Bridge to Perpetual Innovation

02/27/2015

Good to remember: "The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions" (Walter Benjamin).

02/26/2015

You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house...

Spotlight on Martha Graham, choregrapher at the forefront of artistic innovation…
“No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town” ~ Bob Wilson (Choregrapher)

02/18/2015

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Ultimately, the only real elegance is in the mind - if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Spotlight on Martha Graham, choregrapher at the forefront of artistic innovation…
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first” ~ Thomas Eliot (Poet and dramatist)
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxl_Nm9LDE.

02/18/2015

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Tickets for our Onegin matinee next Friday, start at £4!

(Apologies, this performance is not this week, so not over half term)

http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/onegin-by-john-cranko

Photo © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2013

02/18/2015

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

What happens when you combine the talents of Russia's ballet bad boy Sergei Polunin, Irish gospel luminary Hozier and photography pop wizard David LaChapelle? Apparently, a whole lot of angsty, sexy, beautiful dancing ensues. LaChapelle direct...

11/14/2014

Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see...

You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house...

10/14/2013

Precious insights from from a major playwright...
Every work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Only through art can a man feel what another man can feel.

Theatre director Peter Brook speaks Andrew Dickson about his version of Can Themba's The Suit, and looks back on a 70-year career in theatre

10/14/2013

Far-reaching insights from a major choregrapher...
Style is art, just as ultimately art is stylized representation.
The big challenge is to make works of art more, rather than less, real to us. Consequently, choregraphers have no alternative but to put on the stage only those things that they know happen in society.

Video Messages from Ms. Pina Bausch, the Laureate of 2007 KYOTO PRIZE, Arts and Philosophy. "Impressions of receiving the Kyoto Prize" "How to keep up the cr...

08/19/2013

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls…
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse…

Pina Bausch

08/19/2013

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist…
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person…

Yoel Levi conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in this studio recording made in 1991. This specific recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (aka Le Sacre...

08/19/2013

Tribute to Millicent Hodson…
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude…
Art is the proper task of life. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, while art is knowing which ones to keep…
Illustration: Millicent Hodson (Choregrapher).

08/17/2013

Tribute to Merce Cunningham…
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Illustration: Merce Cunningham.