Louis Baker - Birds

Ballet dancing to acoustic music, interesting combination. The lighting is relevant to my investigations, the shadows and the camera angles changing from full establishing shots to close-ups, often abstract.

Director - Mat Baker
DOP - Richard Parsonson
Editor - Suga Sippiah @ Method Studios 
DI Colourist - Pete Williams @ Digipost 
Dancers - Dimitri Kleioris, Antonia Hewitt

Nine Variations on a Dance Theme, Hilary Harris 1966 / 67

13:02 version also available on youtube

See paper workbook for notes and thoughts.

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, 1975

Marina Abramovic

This is an action within life. Intensified. In a lot of Marina Abramovic's works, she is dancing, screaming, or in this case combing her thick dark hair and face with a metal brush, with increasing violence, while intoning for hours and hours the mantra "Art must be beautiful. Artist must be beautiful". It becomes meditative, in an absurd, unsettling way. Obsessed with her physical appearance, she probably wasn't being that ironic. In other performances, she is often nude, testing her body's endurance or stamina. She always challenges the strength of the mind and the body.