"Spine"dancers: Eryn Tempest, David MacInnis, Gerry Morita, Matt Brault
location: under the stairs on 1F
dancer: Eryn Tempest
Viewing the body as an intimate landscape
"Limbs"
location: RBC gallery on 2F
dancer: Heidi Bunting
Remembering the body as more than a sum of parts, in relation to missing parts
"Optic Nerve"
location: 3F gallery
dancer: Katrina Smy (dress by Sid Neigum)
singer: Michelle Milenkovic
An operatic and visual ode to the end of oil
"Organs"
location: stairwell from 3F to 1F
Finding love through gravity; falling and halting
Sound design by Shawn Pinchbeck
Scoreography by Gerry Morita
Mile Zero Dance
This blog was used to record the internal process, inquiry and analysis of "Bodies in O", a dance installation that premiered at the Alberta Gallery of Art on November 20, 2010. Gerry Morita, working from the "Oil Series" large scale photographs of Ed Burtynsky, attempted to transform into dance, sound and performance, some of the issues and images relevant to the photos.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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It's interesting to think of life and the passage of time as a function of gravity: that from birth, our experiences occur in a spiralling tumble towards the event horizon of some massive terrestrial black hole, and that once we reach it and the pull of gravity becomes too strong, our bodies are torn asunder from a lasting memory of ourselves, which remains visible to those watching from behind...
ReplyDeletealso, i like your font Gerry. Nice choice.
check Ginsberg's "Song"
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your words are so lovely, Eryn