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- Dec 9, 2017
There is usually a lot of talk about how in figure skating the choreographer "paints a picture", or how you could "freeze a skater at any moment and turn it into a painting". But, at the expense of sounding pretentious, just how far are we willing to really take this analogy and give thought to what our favourite skater or one of their routines represents in terms of an artistic movement?
Here's a discussion:
Which art movement does your favourite skater represent?
Here's a discussion:
(At the expense of being off topic) I would still consider Les Mis as an expressionist dance because it focuses on the timbre of the characters’ emotion like the feeling of finally being free in Act I (for Valjean); the emotional longing of Eponine in Act II, and finally the reinvigorated emotional strength of the revolutionaries in the Final Act, which was superbly underline by Yuna’s transitional movement from sit position to rising up. Her used of upper body to demostrate the changing emotions of her characters is pretty reminder of expressionist (modern) art for me. Expressionism doesn’t necessarily have to be avant-garde, but in terms of dance and broadly of Modern Dance, there’s an emphasis on the connection between emotion and movement.
So yeah, although more knowledgeable folks can nitpick on this, we can say Mao and Yuna also follow Impressionism/ Expressionism. Another artistic side we can appreciate!
I’m actually curious about choreographers too actually, and what art movement influenced them.
Which art movement does your favourite skater represent?