PALATINE

REVIEW: Leda Martins' article appears in a special issue (African Brazilian Literature) of Callaloo, 18.4, Fall 1995, (Project Muse access is required to view the page). Martins discusses acculturation in Sortilege (Black Mystery), drawing on the script of this play that was first performed in 1957. She discusses the function of characters in negotiating cultural signs - significantly she identifies the reclaiming of African signs in the play. The essay is referenced and the page links to a copy of the play script itself, from which Martins quotes. Although Martins discusses the text rather than a specific production, her discussion focuses on the effects of characters operating within scenes.
Reviewed April 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

REVIEW: Dr Kanak Rele is a distinguished scholar in India and her Nalanda Dance Research Center has been officially recognised by the Indian government. She is described as 'introducing new and richer dimensions to the field of academics and research in classical dancing'. Her article defines form and content and argues that it is their effective integration that makes for an effective dance piece - but that neither must dominate an artwork. Towards the end she introduces her experiments with Mohini Attam. This article was presented to the Natya Kala conference 2000.
Reviewed May 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

Site of the month 01/04
REVIEW: Patricia Beatty's book Form Without Formula is in its fourth printing and this on-line article combines passages from three chapters in the hope that on-line readers will buy the paper copy. Chapter 2: Form and Form Itself, Chapter 5: Titles, Chapter 7: Subject Matter. Beatty's argument for form and content seeming to emerge from each other is not new, indeed she is not seeking to be particularly new, but to explore 'simple learned rules' in new contexts. Her arguments for freshness within a choreographer's approach rather than subject - and for titles that suggest rather than summarise - indicate a clearly point of perspective. Contact the publishers Dance Collection Danse for purchasing details.
Reviewed July 2001, by Stuart Andrews

REVIEW: Interview with dancer/choreographer Mark Morris. Particular attention to music, structure and working with 'the architecture of the human body', sometimes to show the struggle of movement. The interview emphasises the visuality of the work and the conflicting rhythms rather than the 'fireworks' that sometimes appear in dance pieces. Streaming video and transcript available. PBS, is a not-for-profit private media organisation in the US. (August 2001, US).
Reviewed June 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

REVIEW: Deborah Hay's site includes the introduction to her latest book, My Body, the Buddhist (2000). Hay introduces her interest in personal and universal images, the difficulty of defining 'the body', her conception of her body as an approach to practice. Hay identifies this text as the work of a dancer/choreographer, rather than a theorist, analyst, poet or critic. Her relation to Buddhism is more about movement and perception than the religion itself. There is something tangential about that processes behind the text that demonstrates the riddles with which Hay is working. (US) 1998.
Reviewed May 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

Hay engages with her feelings of satisfaction at following choreography. A version of the text will be published in Dance Theatre Journal, Volume 17 Number 2.
SA, May 2002

REVIEW: Dr Sruti Banerjee is a Reader in Dance in the Department of Dance, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, India and is working on creating a new dance idiom. In this article, she looks at the social issues that influence dance choreography and the formation of new dance practice in India. This short article appears on Narthaki Online, a Classical Indian Dance Directory.
Reviewed May 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

Deborah Hay examines harmony through the question what if now is here is harmony? She applies this question to her performance of the choreography of The Other Side of O.
SA, May 2002

REVIEW: The Marian Chace Lecture, at the American Dance Therapy Conference. In this address, Deborah Hay uses words 'to disrupt, often violently, conscious and unconscious movement'. She describes choreography as' the shape a form assumes in time and space'. Her personal reflection looks back over her work in the nineties in terms of this personal choreography. Hay gave the Marion Chace keynote lecture at the ADT conference in Seattle in October 2000.
Reviewed May 2002, by Stuart Andrews

Motion capture, animation and software for making dances.
This paper explores some of the history of Motion Camera work in choreography and looks to future opportunities offered by this technology. Scott deLahunter, January 2000, links to several large images, links and references.
SA, 2002

Let's start with what we were. Palindrome was a dance company based in New York City from 1982 to 1989, and in Nurnberg, Germany after that. As to what we have become...

Since 1995, we have focused on art works -- performances and installations -- which use human movement to control sound, lighting and projected images. This means our work concerns the ways in which mensch and media can be made to interact in real time settings." (What are we page)
AR March 2005

"A report based on the Riverbed Residency in UCI Motion Capture Studio, Scott DeLahunta, May 2001." (Home page)
AR March 2005