Zouk Musicality 02: The String | Walter & Anikas

Zouk Musicality 02: The String | Walter & Anikas | Minsk, Belarus

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Музыкальность в зуке: струна | Бразильское лето в октябре вместе с Вальтером и Аникой в Минске | BRAZIL SUMMER WEEKEND WITH WALTER FERNANDES & ANIKAS POKLAD | OCTOBER 17-18, 2015 MINSK, BELARUS | Music: S.K.A.Y. (С.К.А.Й.) - Struna (Струна) | REVIEW below: “The string is stretched...”
Walter & Anikas hear this song by the Ukrainian group S.K.A.Y. for the first time at the end of their zouk musicality class in Minsk, Belarus. The masters are challenged to do the dance improvisation just listening to the music and playing on their feelings, keeping the viewer in tension while telling the story.
The meaning of the song is conveyed brilliantly through the emotions, facial expressions, covert glances at each other. This is not just a dance, but a story. The story of parting with your love, of loneliness, isolation. And the dancers become their characters. At times, Walter shows a sign of indifference but it's all deliberately just for show to hide his character’s inner feelings. He cares for his partner deeply, but doesn’t want to be vulnerable. Anikas feels unprotected and is willing to give herself into his strong arms.
It's thrilling to observe what the dancers experience during their improvisation. Walter is holding Anikas gently and controls her hand, sending light impulses that resonate within her body and provide a reaction. The dance movements dissipate, concentrating the viewer only on the faces, expressing full range of emotion: sadness, confusion, solitude, and finally pure joy. The heat of the emotion is right in the culmination, when Anikas is reaching and touching her partner, feeling accepted and blessed for their ultimate reunion after all twists and turns of life.
The documentary camera follows the action smoothly and takes active part in the performance. The monochrome gamma accentuates the start of a new relationship from scratch, as the dancers hear the song for the first time. The camera selects the main character every time and follows into his lonely world. The tight framing shows interaction and intimate emotions, thoughts, touches, glances. The camera is never indifferent or remote. It tracks the dancers constantly looking into their relationship with a keen eye and speeds up as the action increases. It's dancing along with the couple and going through their emotions becoming very emotional itself, emphasizing the tension of their relationship.
At the end there are goose bumps when he approaches her and confesses his love. The story is born in the head without knowing the lyrics - and it perfectly blends with the song afterwards.
Walter & Anikas create a first-rate dance improvisation, demonstrating zouk musicality at it’s best: it’s listening to the music, feeling the rhythm of the song, selecting the right movements, varying their speed, playing on the instruments and finally conveying the message of the story through the emotional performance.