Holly Bass is a performer and writer who I have seen and read for many years. Somehow we have never formally met, at least not that I can remember until this night. Holly was performing her piece "Show and Prove" and she came over to see Jane Jerardi's performance video. I was hanging out with Kitty Clark and Beth Burkhart and we all went over to see Holly perform. Beth decided that I should ask her to dance because that is what the performance was all about. However, because I had not read any materials or instructions about what the audience was supposed to do I was scared. SO. Beth brings me over to Holly introduces us and I say "can we tape it" So. We go inside where there is more light and Beth and Kitty take turns behind the camera. I sent this to David Morneau and he made some music.
David Says
It's interesting about what music means for dance. I went to see an outdoor site-specific performance last week by Bill Shannon, who dances on crutches and here with a skateboard. He also had a few backup break dancers with him. There was no music though in the public park where the performance was, so a lot of people just assumed they were hooligans and kind of walked on by trying not to pay too much attention (people tend to do that in NY!) But when breakdancers dancing to tourists for money use music, everyone stops to watch. They know it's a "dance performance" when there's music.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to be in the middle of it all having a dance moment knowing no one else could hear the music we were dancing to which made it an interesting private moment in a very public space.
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