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Luminario Ballet "Trails", ballet about our California enviroment with images from NASALos Angeles Luminario Ballet "Trails"並提供兩張攝影作品發表到南加大學報
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/09/luminario-balletDear Emerson,
Thank you very much for sharing some stunning photos of Luminario Ballet with me. My article ran yesterday and I wanted to share it with you.
Again, thank you very much!
Best,
Christina Campodonico
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
M.A. Specialized Journalism, the ArtsLos Angeles Luminario Ballet "Trails"
Luminario Ballet's Season Five Repertoire Is A Bold Attempt
Comments (0) | Arts+Culture, Ballet, climate change, dance, El Portal Theatre, Led Zeppelin, Luminario Ballet
Christina Campodonico | September 22, 2014 | 4:41 p.m. PDT
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Share this “Every performance entails risk,” I thought to myself as I stepped out of North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre last Friday night. I had just seen Luminario Ballet perform excerpts from their fifth season repertoire. Their eclectic weekend headliners—a ballet about climate change in California and aerial works to the tunes of Led Zeppelin—had enticed me to see their show. This was definitely not Swan Lake, and I was certainly intrigued.
Aerialists and dancers of Luminario Ballet perform in "Trails." (By Emerson Chen)
Aerialists and dancers of Luminario Ballet perform in "Trails." (By Emerson Chen)
Prior to the show, I hopped onto the metro with my reporter’s notebook in hand, while visions of Cirque du Soleil and ballerinas danced around in my head. Expecting a rock n’ roll mash up of earth science and guitar kings, I was jarred by the sequence of the opening numbers. A stylized Spanish number, entitled “Casa Cuarteto,” performed with gusto by six of the company’s dancers, was followed by variations from The Nutcracker, danced skillfully by students from the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. From the Christmastide classic, the program moved to an aerial silk solo, which seemingly had no connection to global warming or Led Zeppelin.
Was this the show I had intended to see? I felt as if I had accidentally stumbled upon a dance recital, not an edgy rock ballet or an artistic statement on climate change. With intermission quickly approaching, I frantically flipped through my program, making sure that I had come to the right theatre, on the correct night, to see the right company.
But I started to pay closer attention when a revolving globe caught my eye. A projection of a glowing earth illuminated the stage’s backdrop as a single dancer in a white unitard stretched her body forward into an elegant flat back.
This adroit solo by Emilie Livingston initiated six movements, collectively titled “Trails.” The work-in-progress featured additional satellite imagery from NASA and body-mapping video projections by Paul Ackerman. A slideshow of giant, rainbow weather patterns, pulsing water ripples and geographic maps of the American Southwest created a luminous scenery for the dancers and aerialists. Meanwhile, the strains of Philip Glass’s “Mishima,” performed by the New Valley Symphony Orchestra, rose with urgency.
As I watched the dancers execute technically flawless steps, the beauty of their movements seemed strangely disconnected from the foreboding images playing overhead.
The dancers’ graceful arabesque lines and dainty bourées clashed with the enlarged diagrams of jagged earthquake fault lines and volcanic hot zones. It created a strange type of tension, as if the dancers were unaware, oblivious and indifferent to the imminent dangers ahead. This left me feeling as if their movements were paltry in comparison to the enormity of the theatre-size images and the global scale of climate change. Then again, I reflected, my obsession with seeing a Led Zeppelin inspired aerial ballet suddenly seemed trivial in comparison to the incredible risks these artists were taking—dangling from lyra hoops and accomplishing fantastic feats amidst a chaotic light show.
Dancers of Luminario Ballet perform a duet in "Trails." (By Emerson Chen)
Dancers of Luminario Ballet perform a duet in "Trails." (By Emerson Chen)
It will take much more than technical mastery and flashy images to give adequate voice to a problem as massive as climate change. But I commend Luminario Ballet for its bold attempt to use dance as a platform for responding to this pressing environmental concern.
“Dancers rarely get a chance to speak,” said the company’s managing and artistic director Judith FLEX Helle. “We just get up on stage and we move without speaking, so I felt that if we talked about [climate change] through our movement that it would get the audience to talk about it.”
The inclusion of “Trails” in Luminario’s repertoire is not only ambitious, but it is also extremely timely as New York comes off Sunday’s Climate March and the UN convenes the 2014 Climate Summit on Tuesday. While Luminario Ballet’s programming lacked cohesion, “Trails” showed the company’s sensitivity to the world beyond ballet and its daring capacity to experiment imaginatively with new technology.
“Discoveries in science happen when a curious person goes exploring and dance is also a creative path, where a curious person is also exploring,” said Helle.
Going to Luminario Ballet reminded me of the risk inherent in exploring any uncharted territory. I applaud them for their curiosity, acrobatic prowess and readiness to investigate the areas between art and science.
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