Here is a new and improved version of skin, which Sangita reshot and edited for me. It had its first screening at gati's IGNITE contemporary dance festival!
skin (2010)
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Cynthia Lee
Director Photography/Editing: Sangita Shresthova
Text: Sumita Chakravarty's National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
Music Composition: Loren Nerell
Production Support: Carol McDowell
FEEDBACK QUESTIONS:
(1) How does the piece make you feel -- viscerally, emotionally, intellectually?
(2) Any thoughts about how to integrate into the live performance?
(3) Other thoughts?
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What if we see 3 courtesans silhouettes behind the screen while the film is playing. We see a very minimal styles choreography with these women in tight blouses, long spinning skirts, and veils. After the film finishes the screen rises to reveal the next scene (My varnam trio)....where the stories begin to unfold...
ReplyDeleteAh....just realized we probably do not have a screen at the Miles and the film maybe projected against the wall.....will have to think this one out...
Having played with dancing in front of the "skin" video (see http://postnatyam.blogspot.com/2010/11/tawaif-interrupted-or-theorizing.html), I think the silhouettes are much more interesting than the live body in front. Maybe we can do something low-tech with a large gauzy piece of fabric stretched across the stage and held up in front of the courtesans as a screen.
ReplyDeleteThere's also this idea Cynthia and I experimented with where two people are wrapped into either end of the fabric to make a screen for the words...
ReplyDeleteWe were just improvising, but if we slowed down the movement this could be interesting...
password: skin
http://www.vimeo.com/17127159
I guess what you experimented with points in the direction of the screen that divides the stage further down. I think this could be done with body, maybe, but I still think the video has movement in it thats powerful, which is taken away when there is actual movement happening at the same time.
ReplyDeleteDuring my talk in Salzburg I showed "skin" as an intro, and then started overlapping with the talk towards the end.