University of California Irvine Dance of the Bella Figura Discussion

Watch the Piece Below:

Then write a three paragraph critique for the work you saw.

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Piece Information: (Make sure you include this information below in your opening paragraph)

BELLA FIGURA (1995)

Nederlands Dance Theatre I

Music by Lukas Foss, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli

Directed for TV and Video by Hans Hulscher

Program Note:

“A journey in time- light and space, addressing the ambiguity of aesthetics – performances and dreams.
Finding beauty in a grimace – in a knot of the mind – or in a physical contortion.
It is like trying to perform a balancing act on the string of your umbilical cord.
When does the performing act start ?
When we are born or when the curtain rises ?
Does it all end when we walk off the stage – or is there no end to the performance ?
What is a masquerade ? – The clothes we wear in the street or the stage costume ?
Between so-called art and artificiality – between the reality of life or fantasy – this twilight zone creates a tension which is of interest to me.
It os like standing on the edge of a dream. Standing in darkness and qtaring into a sharp light with closed eyes- doubling every bit of our so-called reality.
The moment in which dream intrudes into our lives and life into our dreams – this is the point of my curiosity.
Simply – a feeling of falling down in a dream and waking up with a broken rib”.

Jiri Kylian

Instructions:

Watch the above video link. Then write a three paragraph critique using the Mini Video Critique Guidelines. (Links to an external site.)

Make sure you included the information listed above about the piece in the opening paragraph. Also remember that your readers have NOT seen this piece so do your best to describe it to them within your critique. Use the information you have learned in your lectures and readings to help support your thoughts.

Please follow Mini Critique Rubric.