“Impoverished Places”is a dramatic, uplifting five-minute short film, which provides a sensitive, poetically touching evocation of our wishes for belonging and human connections. In the film, two dancers, one of whom has lived with Parkinson’s Disease for thirty years, enact a dramatic portrayal of the relationship between the finite and the infinite, while all the while reaching into their “impoverished places” to comfort and transform us.
The film stands as a bold reminder that people are capable of doing great things that can in turn inspire greatness in others. It quietly makes a strong statement supporting our social aspirations for peace and a soothing sense of communion that is stronger and deeper than the need to win in the competition of life. This, in turn, is interpenetrated with a hope for the kind of society in which people with developmental disabilities and the friends who assist them can work together in ways that enable each person to grow to his or her full potential.
This piece presents a number of color photographs, as well as the emotionally moving short film, “Impoverished Places.”
Please visit my website to view the photographs, and to watch this remarkable short film:
Brenda Way and music collaborator Pamela Z discuss "Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance)," inspired by an 19th century French etiquette book, the constraints of fashion and using a table of contents as a creative springboard.
After you get a behind the scenes look with our podcasts, be sure to buy your ticket to see the premieres at Dance Downtown at www.odcdance.org/downtown.Brenda Way and music collaborator Pamela Z discuss "Waving Not Drowning (A Guide... more
Watch KT Nelson discuss her new piece, "Labor of Love," which explores how this thing called love is just work. Set to Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor, Labor of Love celebrates the many layers of a relationship despite its hardships.
After you get a behind the scenes look with our podcasts, be sure to buy your ticket... to see the premieres at Dance Downtown at www.odcdance.org/downtown.Watch KT Nelson discuss her new piece, "Labor of Love," which explores how... more
In the early 1900s, fat, middle-aged, highly sexed women weren’t supposed to dance, bare their breasts, or take lovers half their age. But Isadora Duncan did all of that and more while she was leading her free-range, tragic, melodramatic life 90 years ago. The sight of Isadora Duncan dancing barefoot and as scantily clad as a woodland nymph, brought large crowds to theaters and concert halls throughout Europe. Duncan’s private life, quite as much as her dancing, kept her name in newspaper headlines owing to her constant disregard of social taboos and sexual escapades.
Strongly held opposing opinions of Isadora ranged from those who adored Duncan and described her work as spectacular, to those who flatly described her as rubbish. During the last years of her life, Isadora Duncan was a somewhat pathetic figure, living precariously with little money on the French Riviera, where she met with a fatal accident: her legendary long scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car in which she was riding, and she was strangled.
This article includes a detailed biography, vintage photographs, a short 45-second video (the only known piece of film showing her dancing) and a photo-gallery of the melodramatic Isadora Duncan.In the early 1900s, fat, middle-aged, highly sexed women weren’t supposed to... more
Rheanna Port is a successful Bangarra dancer who grew up in one of the most remote aboriginal tribes in Australia and now tours the world with her unique blend of indiginous and modern European dance.Rheanna Port is a successful Bangarra dancer who grew up in one of the most remote... more
