Sidi Larbi Chekaoui & Antony Gormley - Sutra

A second chance to catch this stunning collaboration, a highlight of the Spring 2008 season.
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[@24chazza]

@TheTransporteer some points to consider: A. Dance is movement put on a stage, a martial art is moving. Martial arts = dance. B. Contemporary dance, which this falls under the category of, is all about collaborative work. Sidi Larbi follows Buddhist teachings and has brought both of his loves together. C. Buddhism teaches of enlightenment and peace. In my opinion they are projecting this feeling/enlightened state through their movements. Open your eyes and see that this is beautiful

[@datenschleuder2000]

Sidi, my favourite choreograph. I love those pictures he makes moving. So beautiful!!!

[@ricconstituantabrogatoirei4999]

whaou....what a poetry, fantastic...thank you

[@smendes2004]

Sidi is just GOOD in what he does. He could not do a bad thing even if he wanted to.

[@garychin5321]

simply mind-blowingly awesome!!!

[@madave92]

I saw this live in NZ. Stunning

[@zoegraceli]

Don't be a snob. Dance is an art form, you can choreograph a dance of cars in traffic if you want. The choreographer is the interpreter, not the monks. They are the medium, not the artist. As a dancer myself, I know they are not dancers, but there's more to this art than an elite corp. You and I both know dancers who are not interpreting, they are moving. They just do it beautifully.

[@ali_baks3623]

Красиво! Где посмотреть полный спектакль?

[@ЄлизаветаТретяк-п7е]

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[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg In ballet, we call this virtuose. It's the almost unexplainable way some dancers have to interpret the music. Some call it carisma. Some call it gift. I call this the touch of the Holy Spirit, that is given to some fortunate human beings. This touch will make all the difference between as to say, Fernando Bujones (to me a great athlete, not a real dancer) and Mikhail Baryshnikov (the greatest dancer of all time, maybe side to side to Vladimir Vasiliev).

[@Bobbeldibobable]

mindblowing!

[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg One more time, you misunderstood me. Dance is music. Your instrument is your body. Music exists without dance, but not the opposite. Be it silence, simple rhythm or a symphony, dance will always need music. Period. That's why the best dancers (I am talking about classical dance) in the history, are accomplished musicians. If you don't know what I am talking, then you are just a dance critic, and have never experienced real dancing in its essence.

[@tekkiangel]

awesome!

[@CocaColaidder]

1:18 Airbender?

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza but If I was to stand before God after a life of work being one the choreographers you mentioned, just as Alvin Ailey I would held my head high before the Creator. You just justified everything I said before, classical dancers dacing contemporary (Paris and Royal). Just like this you can have real contemporary dance.

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza if you don't know what to do with them. It's like 20 years I don't see choreographer that really knows what to do with sensational dancers. The reason you are upset with me, is because deep there you know I am right. I don't pretend I like some choreographer just because he is "studying the frontier of movement" or "innovating contemporary dancer", arg. I am not being disrespectful. I am being sincere. I respect the human being...

[@stellamotionpictures]

Brilliant!

[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg I got your point. You know. Dance, different from music, doesn't has its notation yet. There are some attempts to pass choreography to paper, but there is not a universal pattern yet. Accepted by all. So, it's really subjective. Music is not. Music precise. To interpret music, a classical musicist has to follow the score exactly as it is. So the line between movement and dance is tenuous, cause we don't have a score to interpret.

[@tubeberk08]

looked like dance to me, maybe they are not dancers... but they were dancing during this performance quite well.

[@duduflipbasico3429]

Muito divertido!

[@Lob0Sec]

Belíssimo!

[@tf64x96]

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[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza I don't expect you undertand what I am going to say... well. I will give you 2 things: 1) Alvin Ailey - agree. a genius; 2) sensational dancers with impeccable technique. Dance is supposed to be difficult. Not just because you have to have it from the day you are born. But you have to practise a lot to achieve perfection. Beyond, Alvin Ailey, all the others you mentioned are waste of time and money. What good is on having sensational dancers with impeccable technique ...

[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg I didn't said that. Actually you can dance with silence. But then there will still be music. The music in the inner self. That just you can hear. Although others think there is silence. There is not. Silence is music too. Yet, even if these kunf gu fitghter were making moves in silence There would still be no dance. Its a performance. Not dance.

[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg As it is, dance falls in a category where science can't be apllied. Whereas music can. Movement as itself is just movement. There has to be meaning behind the dance. A meaning that only can be suported by music, the most pure art. So, in order to be qualified as dance, the dancer has to be able to interpret the music. But how? Where is he going to search fundamentals to do so if he does not have a vocabulary to do so?

[@Klingsorlogia]

Excelso

[@TheWalkira]

do you know where I can download it for free? Tnx :)

[@24chazza]

@TheTransporteer what? seriously? Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Lester Horton: Three contemporary practioners who would roll in their respective graves at that comment. Alvin Ailey, Nederlands Dance Theater, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: Three companies that have absolutely sensational dancers with impeccable technique. Your comments are so unfounded and blind it makes me really upset. The Paris Opera and The Royal Ballet of England have placed contemporary works in amongst their rep

[@lelekendude]

It's 'Cherkaoui'

[@24chazza]

@TheTransporteer Wayne McGregor is the resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet and he's a contemporary choreographer! Sylvie Guillem was a celebrated tip-top ballerina who did lots of contemporary and still is. I also don't understand how you can show such disrespect for a different religion to your own. Chill out and learn the facts before you sling such unfounded, disrespectful and immature commentary across the internet

[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg Yeah, I agree with you that discuss art is quite subjective. Its like discussin the sex of the angels.But still, being a classical dancer, I can't see or feel martial arts as a form of dance. Although you can have a martial artist that is a dancer. But thats another history. Feeling is the problem. They can use their martial movements to describe what they are feeling. But it wont be dance. It will be more like a performance. You could call them performatic artists. Not dancers.

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza I see much more contemporary dance in professional hip-hop dancers with no classical education, than in dancers who call themselves contemporary. The first ones are able to move me from inside. Most of the second ones make want to go away from the theather in the middle of the show.

[@megan_sun]

They do kung fu

[@a0979129138]

当西方遇到東方、禅風潤哲理、舞道還武道。

[@gonzarockss]

music???

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza Let me put it simple. Contemporary dancer without strong classical education (I mean professionals) doesn't stand a chance before a contemporary dancer who mastered classical ballet.

[@hanssvoboda]

I just saw this last night, and it's a straight entertainment piece, so completely devoid of the 'deep meaning' it wishes so desperately to convey. And let's not get into the 'mysterious' and 'spiritual' and 'wise' Asian cliches....as a nice bit of martial arts choreography, it's a good show to bring your children to, but it's not much more than that.

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza But I am stubborn. I keep wasting my money to see if I find real contemporary dance.

[@ZurriyetBlogs]

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[@gabriel.trainer]

@JoshWiniberg So we fall again in that awful but subjective matter, what is really to dance?

[@taddlchxn_4537]

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[@gabriel.trainer]

Sorry, it's not dance. Those people are kung fu athletes. They were not trained in the art of dancing. They were trained to do fight moviments and are being used to make these moviments with # rhythm. But this doesn't mean at all they are dancing. Dance is to interpret someway the music you hear. It is to dance the music with your body. Even if this music is complete silence. This performance is good, very creative, even funny sometimes (the domino effect for example), but its not dance at all.

[@gabriel.trainer]

@24chazza A. This is a sofism. Example: I run on a stage. Run is movement. Dance is movement. Run is dance??? Sorry, no. B. Contemporary dance in 99% of the cases is done by people who don't have real talent to dance or didn't had the guts to study and practise hard enough so that he/she was doing could be called dancing. Like, ok, i can't do classical ballet, let me do contemporary. C. The only way to seek real enlightenment and peace is through Jesus Christ. Everything else is just deception.