Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Jessica Lang’s Ink.

Saw the coolest dance tonight at the Eccles Center in Park City. It was Jessica Lang’s “Ink.”

Dance, by stripping away our primary mode of communication through speech, when done well, powerfully communicates; most likely at a subconscious level, and concentrates the mind and spirit to focus on the manner by which we communicate to our intimates: through the energy, vitality, grace, and power of our physicality.

It is our first language and our last. It is the language of infant and parent, mother and child, lover to lover, stranger to passing stranger, rivals against rivals, and care giver to dying patient.

“Ink,” an exquisitely choreographed multimedia presentation, heightens this kinetic speech by playing with time with the use of a green screened couple that dances with their double, in perfect harmony, yet each given to a different dimension through combining the movement of slow motion with the movement of real time. It depicts an entire life time of a couple by juxtaposing their spirited dance of romance and strife before the almost imperceptively slow motion of a single green drop into a pool of black die. Through clever lighting it creates clones of the dancers' shadows that spring up as eerie specters seeming to ooze out of the floor. And it enhanced the dynamic fluidity of its incredible dancers with ingenious liquid choreography against a background of slow motion splashes, sprays, and ribbons of colored water, paints and inks.

If you have a chance to see it, do so. It will free your spirit. Here is a medley of the concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNlPpMhkcA

Loren M. Lambert © April 6, 2014

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