Spong likes the idea of an artist making a costume "I'm going to completely take over the body."
The director of the Ballet Russes didn't like film as a medium, mass-culture.
There aren't record of thses ballets, the choreography has been lost. Dance gets carried on from one dancer to another, traditional form of passing on information. Just like language, things can slip and move in very natural ways as one dancer re-interprets the choreography.
Costume for a Mourner - sculpture and flat image, the dancer Benny was asked by Sriwhana to do an exploration of the costume. He said the music wasn't working for him, narrative, hence the decision to film it in silence. There is a piece in the ballet that is beautiful and evocative, and the music comes in for a short amount of time, something coming to life, like a shard of hope. The sound is quite easy to remember, when the film goes silent again, you can still hear the music reverberating even though it's not there anymore. The song of the nightingale, like a memory.
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