The second choreographer i looked at for this unit was Rosas Danst Rosas. This piece is very interesting as the theme or stimulus could be interpreted in many different ways. The dance is 8 minutes and a half long unlike the original version of it which lasts 1 hour 40 minutes and consists of 4 parts. In the first movement the dancers lie on the floor. In the second they are seated on a chair. In the third they stand in a line and the final 4th part they move throughout the space. This shows that the dancers are restricted to movements in each parts until the final one which could connotate life and death as you could say life is restricting with little freedom and when you die which could be the 4th part the afterlife opens you to the freedom of anything/moving. In the stage version of Rosas Danst Rosas their are 4 dancers, unlike the film version where their are 18 dancers.
The filmed version of the dance is set in a school in belguim this is a specific site that Rosas really wanted to be a main feature of the dance, as the site effected the natural light that would be used in the dance, as she didnt want any ambient light.
The dance was performed live in 1983 and only filmed in 1997. The style of the dance is post-modern, it has physical elements with pedestrian actions and repetitive, compulsive gestures. The whole piece is energetic and dynamic. This is highlighted further by the camera as the camera becomes both the composer and choreographer by taking us on a journey, panning and zooming, selecting and layering images to create rhythms. So by filming this piece its shown from every angle allowing us to see more of the dance in comparison to if it were filmed with just 1 angle shot.
The music for this dance is similar to Russell Maliphant's piece 'Two' as they consist of unusual clicks whhich again is portrayed in rhythm to the dance. The music was composed by Thierry de Mey and Peter Vermeersch. The music changes when it gets to the end as natural sounds come into play from the dancers in action, these sounds add to the pieces persona, and makes it helps to portray emotions across to the audience by using different tones in your voice. The music is in direct correlation to the dance.
At the beginning of the piece the audience is shown a wide shot of all the dancers, this is also repeated at the end which links to an ABA structure similar to the dance structure. Furthermore, the dancers are restricted to their seats as the camera is panning around them, this could connotate emotions of 'the world is spinning' as the teenage girls could represent mental health issues, which is another story i felt the dance told. I thought this though by the influence that the camera had on me viewing the dance.
The tempo in music for this piece is upbeat but changes throughout the piece keeping the audience interested and aids climax's and highlights.
Camera work is uses extreme close up shots to highlight single parts of the body, this draws attention to small human gestures. By doing this allows different emotions to be portrayed and makes are mind focus on different things in depth. Other shots used were over the shoulder shots, extreme close up and medium shots. In the middle of the dance there is a panning shot which allows the audience to see 180 degrees of the dancers making it more pleasing to the eye as you get to focus on different parts of the dance. In the 2nd Section of the full dance there is a part where there is a close up on the face you can see the other dancers faces in the background this is effective as it looks like the camera is portraying a canon.
The motif is repeated throughout and this may be missed when watching the stage version in comparison to the filmed version. The filmed version you're forced to look at where the camera is focusing unlike the stage version where your eyes may be distracted to look at other parts of the dance instead of focusing on specific parts which is what the camera allows us to do.
Below is a link to the dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCTbCcSxis
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