Influences Flashcards
Who are the main influences?
-Wim Vandekeybus
-Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
-Pina Bausch
-Trisha Brown
-William Forsythe
-Popular culture, music videos and film
-Alain Platel
Wim Vandekeybus
-A Belgium choreographer, director and photographer
-His works are based on how people react to extreme situations
-He has a powerful theatrical manner
-Full of dynamics and conflict - eurocrash
-Use of impulsive movements structured through material
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
-A Belgium contemporary dance choreographer
-Has a gestural movement vocabulary
-Use of geometrical patterns
-Minimalist
-A lot of her works were often site specific
-Favours choreographic devices and accumulative canon
-Famous dance: ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’
-Often subverts different gender roles by featuring strong female performers
-Her choreography is heavily influenced by music
-Use of collaborations with musicians and visual artists
-Larbi trained at her dance school PARTS
Pina Bausch
-She is an expressionist
-She blends the movement with emotions
-Created tanz theatre - multiple things happening on stage at once
-Her choreography is ritualistic and frenzied
-Theatrical
-Larbi thought her works was the first realistic piece of contemporary he had ever seen
Trisha Brown
-American choreographer and dancer
-She was influenced by avant-garde and Cunningham
-Post-modernist
-Experimental - founder of Judson Church group and worked with dancers including Steve Paxton and Twyla Thwarp
-Favoured gestural movement
-Collaborative
William Forsythe
-An American dancer and choreographer
-Pushed limits of ballet - bending and breaking the rules
-Use of geometry in spatial design
-‘If dance only does what we assume it can do, it will expire’
-Was on the jury panel at Belgium’s best dancer competition
Popular culture, music videos and film
-Influenced by Bruce Lee who was an actor and did karate
-He was influenced by Kung Fu and martial arts - the meaning of the style
-He watched music videos when he was a teenager (Larbi) and was self-taught
-Influenced by Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson and Kate Bush
Alain Platel
-He created radical dance theatre works that are hard to classify
-A sense of chaos and unpredictability to his works
-Used a wide range of performers
-Platel loved theatre and mime
-Had his own dance company - Les Ballet C de la B which Larbi joined
-He also hosted the Belgium’s best dancer competition
-Influenced Larbi through his methods of improvising, song and text but Larbi didn’t actually like his works
Other influences
-Drawing - drew a lot as a child
-Yoga - physical, mental and spiritual practices which increases body awareness
What social, cultural and historical influences were there on Larbi’s work?
-Post structuralism and conceptual art
-Post structuralism is how Larbi uses an object metaphorically
-Conceptual art - the idea that the idea is more important than the finished art object
-Post modern dance - break away from Graham - a continuation of the dance history stemming from the early modernist choreographers and rejected some of the formalities of modern dance - an example would be Anne TDK