FILM
Paul Bush
Moving Pictures
2001
Duration: 5'30''
Credits
A film by Paul Bush
Dance Captain Matthew Hawkins
Dancers Yalckun Abdurehim, Camille Litalien, Franziska Rosenzweig
Assistant Adi Wolotsky
Rigger Stewart Mundy
Synopsis
A parasitic presence has completely taken over the body of its host while allowing its movements and mannerisms to remain intact; a pas de deux from classical ballet has been restaged frame by frame with the two original dancers replaced by four new dancers. The movement remains continuous, but in each frame a different person occupies the dancers’ body spaces.
The White Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake as originally danced by Marina Semenova and Yuri Kondratov in 1946 is re-enacted by Yalckun Abdurehim, Matthew Hawkins, Camille Litalien and Franziska Rosenzweig.