Let's Dance: Modern Ballet

I have loved modern ballet ever since seeing my mother's cousin, Michael Ho, dance with Ballet Rambert. The music was offset, spiky, rhythmic, arrhythmic and with it, the dancers' bodies contorted, froze, lilted and expanded in ways I found mesmerising. In these two pieces. I have looked at ways of testing the materials, working the 'background' to show another layer, finding areas of near-repetition and areas of fold that traverse the rules of representation that I set myself when making my other pieces.

Extremity in body and choreography influence MB GO (Modern Ballet Grey Orange) and with it, the sense of timing, rhythm, repetition and the unexpected in its associated music

MB GY (Modern Ballet Grey Yellow) explores the concept of beautiful contortion, pushing at the boundaries of the dancer’s body and its surroundings.

 

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