The Body as a Channel
Posted by DCA Theater on February 23, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, DanceBridge Showcase Winter 2012
Submitted by Joseph Caruana, participant in DanceBridge Winter Session 2012 
Some of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s music can sound so melancholy (one of the reasons I adore it). Somehow I feel like I understand Lully’s passion. Loving someone you can never have, feeling the only way you can honestly express yourself is through your art; these are things that I, and as I’m sure many others too, can relate with. And I, like I imagine King Louis did, am falling in love with his music.
Here is a clip of me doing my best to channel that Lully sadness in three separate improvisational sessions, juxtaposed into one video montage. The music is Lully’s Prélude Pour La Nuit from Triumphe De L’Amour. Don’t let the uplifting title fool you, this piece of music is heartbreaking – and beautiful.
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Comments (2)
This is great. I love your dedication to ballet history. I would love to know how ballet started and what the dancers looked like. It must have been a special time.
Thanks, Dorothy! Yeah, I am really getting into all of the music and art from that era - all so beautiful. I recommend you check out Lucia Mauro’s half-hour weekly webinars. They only cost about $3 each to watch the archives, and they are the perfect way to get quick and comprehensive dance history (they do inlcude you tube videos of early ballet).
http://comhaus.webcredenza.com/catalog.aspx?browse=ViewProg&catid=23