(Creation Residence )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 14/11/2011 to 26/11/2011
Presentation :
On 26/11/2011 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Albert Quesada
( Albert Quesada, Mireia de Querol, Federica Porello, Marcus Baldemar )
Slow Sports is a dance piece investigating the fascination with sports, and the totality of how they are experienced.
This piece will explore the way athletes experience movement, the physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their actions produce.
We will also explore how the experience of competitive sports is structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television, documentaries, radio and newspapers), and how movement has been sculpted by artists.
In this residency a first skeleton of the piece will be created. We will:
- Narrow the number of sports we will utilize.
- Establish the use of camera recording.
- Create and assign scores which will be practiced individually in the future.
- Create a temporary narrative of events to be shown.
- This first period will finish with the first public sharings in mid December in Barcelona (L'animal a l'esquena, La Caldera), and in Brussels (Working Title Platform).
A project exploring the fascination with sports, and how they are experienced.
"Your hero is a quarterback challenged by the opposing team's defense. In the last section of a second before being sacked, with a lineman of the other team literally in his face, he releases the ball into the open air. The world in front of you turns into slow motion, ... The receiver makes the catch, barely, but he makes it, and as he protects the ball with his elbows, he evades the coverage of the opposing team and starts sprinting in a direction that nobody (including yourself of course) would ever have predicted. For a split second, you believe that the fire in his eyes strikes your own eyes!" [1]
Slow Sports is a dance piece investigating the totality of how sports are experienced. Since the birth of the Olympics in Ancient Greece, competitive sports have involved the participation of both the athlete and the spectator. This communication between competitors and audience is not incidental to competitive sports, but integral to it. In these times sports are appreciated, and athletes elevated, at a level perhaps not seen since classical antiquity. Today, sporting events are arguably the dominant aesthetic experience available to our culture.
This piece will explore the way athletes experience movement, the physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their actions produce.
We will also explore how the experience of competitive sports is structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television, documentaries, radio and newspapers), and how movement has been sculpted by artists.
"Between these movements, between the player's glance and your perception, the world returns to its usual pace, and you breath very deeply, your chest almost bursting, so relieved you are, and so proud, and so hopeful after the beautiful play that has now disappeared, never to repeat itself again in real timee." [2]
[1] Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In praise of athletic beauty p.17 Belknap Harvard, 2006
[2] Gumbrecht, p.18
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 14/11/2011 to 26/11/2011
Presentation :
On 26/11/2011 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Albert Quesada
( Albert Quesada, Mireia de Querol, Federica Porello, Marcus Baldemar )
Slow Sports is a dance piece investigating the fascination with sports, and the totality of how they are experienced.
This piece will explore the way athletes experience movement, the physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their actions produce.
We will also explore how the experience of competitive sports is structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television, documentaries, radio and newspapers), and how movement has been sculpted by artists.
In this residency a first skeleton of the piece will be created. We will:
- Narrow the number of sports we will utilize.
- Establish the use of camera recording.
- Create and assign scores which will be practiced individually in the future.
- Create a temporary narrative of events to be shown.
- This first period will finish with the first public sharings in mid December in Barcelona (L'animal a l'esquena, La Caldera), and in Brussels (Working Title Platform).
A project exploring the fascination with sports, and how they are experienced.
"Your hero is a quarterback challenged by the opposing team's defense. In the last section of a second before being sacked, with a lineman of the other team literally in his face, he releases the ball into the open air. The world in front of you turns into slow motion, ... The receiver makes the catch, barely, but he makes it, and as he protects the ball with his elbows, he evades the coverage of the opposing team and starts sprinting in a direction that nobody (including yourself of course) would ever have predicted. For a split second, you believe that the fire in his eyes strikes your own eyes!" [1]
Slow Sports is a dance piece investigating the totality of how sports are experienced. Since the birth of the Olympics in Ancient Greece, competitive sports have involved the participation of both the athlete and the spectator. This communication between competitors and audience is not incidental to competitive sports, but integral to it. In these times sports are appreciated, and athletes elevated, at a level perhaps not seen since classical antiquity. Today, sporting events are arguably the dominant aesthetic experience available to our culture.
This piece will explore the way athletes experience movement, the physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their actions produce.
We will also explore how the experience of competitive sports is structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television, documentaries, radio and newspapers), and how movement has been sculpted by artists.
"Between these movements, between the player's glance and your perception, the world returns to its usual pace, and you breath very deeply, your chest almost bursting, so relieved you are, and so proud, and so hopeful after the beautiful play that has now disappeared, never to repeat itself again in real timee." [2]
[1] Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In praise of athletic beauty p.17 Belknap Harvard, 2006
[2] Gumbrecht, p.18
