Slow Dancing at the Music Center
Slow Dancing - Special Engagement
Free evening event taking place nightly on the Music Center Plaza
West Coast Premiere
Created by David Michalek
Commissioned by the Music Center
Dance at the Music Center proudly presents the West Coast premiere of Slow Dancing. An outdoor installation of larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of extraordinary dance artists from around the world. Also being presented by New York's Lincoln Center, Slow Dancing simultaneously captures the beauty of the body in motion, while exposing its most intricate nuances.
Projected on 16 foot screens, each subject's movement (approximately 5 seconds) was shot on a specially constructed set with a high-speed, high-definition camera recording at 1,000 frames per second. The result is approximately 10-minutes of extreme slow movement-a motion portrait in which the dancer's unique artistic expression and technique are revealed as never before.
Slow Dancing features over 30 of today's foremost modern and ballet artists, as well as recognized master interpreters of a range of traditional and contemporary dance forms, including "krump" artist Christopher "Lil C" Toler, "Crutchmaster" Bill Shannon, Bill T. Jones, Desmond Richardson, Shen Wei, Allegra Kent, ABT's Herman Cornejo and Isabelle Guerin, to name a few.
PERFORMANCE DATES/ TIMES
September 18-26, 2007 6:00PM - 12:00AM
Public Exhibition (FREE)
Optimal viewing after 7:30 PM
Note: In the event of rain, exhibit will not take place
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