body movement tuesday :: viceral dance company

Visceral Dance Chicago will bring dance to an extensive population, challenging audiences to examine their perception of the dance experience. By providing thought provoking and innovative performances, VDC will push itself to bring new explorations of movement and theater without limitation of specific styles.  It is a goal of Visceral Dance Chicago to reach wider audiences, obtain great arts support, and form a universal dance audience.  Audiences should be taken to a different place and be exposed to something extraordinary, something that makes them think and ask why.  VDC intends to reach to a deeper place to help the audience
experience something that is not easy or simple but that cultivates conversation both for the individual and the audience as a whole.  Visceral Dance Chicago wants to change the way the audience thinks and views dance.  By driving dance in a different direction, VDC hopes to make the art form accessible to everyone, providing an avenue for deeper thought, understanding, and appreciation.

body movement tuesday :: the seldoms

Dan Merlo




The Seldoms
"The Seldoms make contemporary dance that translates inquiry into 
movement and amplifies its impact through collaboration with image, 
sound, text and location, providing an avenue for audiences to 
experience relevant and engaging dance.  We are a Chicago based 
dance performance company that values making intelligent, visual 
dance theater driven by inquiry.  We ground our inquiry in the history 
of ideas, art history, and our personal experience to find complex and
faceted ways to describe the nature of our question."

"The center of our work is dance, however, our vision extends to the 
whole of action and environment on stage."

body movement tuesday :: empire of ecstasy

Empire of Ecstasy
Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935
Karl Toepfer
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California

Empire of Ecstasy offers an interpretation of the explosion
in German body culture between nudism and nude dancing,
gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism,
and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs.
Karl Toepfer presented a dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of modern identity.

The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists
and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy,
as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious
inner conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body
sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy.
With the help of much unpublished or forgotten archival material
(including many little known photographs), he investigates the process
of constructing an empire of appropriate impulses toward ecstasy.

Karl Toepfer presents the work of such well known figures as Rudolf Laban,
Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with lesser known
but equally fascinating body culture practitioners.

oddities and magikal monday :: morbid anatomy

Morbid Anatomy
Joanna Ebenstein
surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture
Visit Morbid Anatomy in Brooklyn, New York,
at The Morbid Anatomy Library, a research library and private collection
available to the interested public. The library makes available
a collection of books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts
relating to medical museums, anatomical art, collectors and collecting,
cabinets of curiosity, the history of medicine, death and mortality,
memorial practice, art and natural history, arcane media,
and other topics explored on this blog.

body movement tuesday :: capacitor

Capacitor
Performance. Art. Science.
A San Franciso, California group of interdisciplinary movement artists 
that accumulate energy from our technologically impacted culture and 
release it through.  From the movement of the human diaphragm to 
the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic 
manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion -
natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study 
of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as 
well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor 
artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable 
sculpture, and engineers of large scale props designed to stretch the 
limits of physical poetry.

body movement :: dancebloggers.com

Cloud Gate


Wayne McGregor


JVC Yesterday


Dance COLEctive

DanceBloggers.com
A central hub for people who blog about dance.
Includes choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, dance student,
dance scholar, dance critic, dance notator, dance presenter,
dance observer.

philips design

Philips Design
Philips Design Channel
Tattoos and physical mutilation are amongst the oldest forms of personal expression and identity. Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring .
The Electronics Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers.

whirling beauties :: dance bloggers

Emio Greco




dance bloggers
This site was built by Deborah Friedes and Tal Galili.
They have established a central hub for people who blog about dance in English. The site will help dance bloggers connect and follow the dance blogosphere; it will also allow people interested in dance and blogging to learn more about the field.