19/06/2024
CRWDSPCR (2008) - Merce Cunningham Dance Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq2Tqiy9m8g
"Atlas records a late-2000's revival performance of the 1993 dance CRWDSPCR, which Merce Cunningham choreographed using the choreographic software program LifeForms. In program notes to a performance of the dance, Cunningham suggested that the vowel-less title, pronounced either "crowd spacer" or "crowds pacer," referred to the way in which technology both crowded space and quickened the pace of daily life. Atlas's camera mimics a computer screen by maintaining an objective, static frame and rarely zooming in on particular dancers, notably making an intimate approach during the long, slow solo that contrasts with the dance's overall frenetic, staccato paces. A blue screen that forms the backdrop for the dance is traversed by a full company of dancers, who wear multi-colored leotards resembling harlequin computer pixels or digital grids. Cunningham's stage organization also permits the viewer to focus his or her attention on any of several groupings of moving dancers, much as one would when working on a computer with several windows open simultaneously. In this way, CRWDSPCR merges Cunninham's vision of a decentered organization of the stage with his use of the computer as a conceptual extension of chance-generated decision-making." (original text by Merce Cunningham Trust)
Merce Cunningham, Charles Atlas2008, 29:37 min, color, soundAtlas records a late-2000's revival performance of the 1993 dance CRWDSPCR, which Merce Cunningha...
