Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Dorner troupe uncoils with joy
Post Gazette: "Austrian choreographer and filmmaker Willi Dorner has been making an Internet/YouTube name for himself with sculptural concoctions using human bodies. Usually his dancers perform in a colorful and casual array of T-shirts, sweats, hoodies and tennis shoes. They are placed in a jigsaw puzzle of rounded, Henry Moore-esque proportions -- butt to butt, topsy turvy, feet in the air, all askew -- and usually tucked away in angular urban corners of the street like human sausages."
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Looking up Youtube videos of this troupe makes me think of the dance troupe Pilobolus that was featured in a Greenpage post two weeks ago. The unique and interesting thing about this troupe against the other one is that the emphasis is not on creating recognizable shapes like Pilobolus, but on creating the wildest entanglements of multiple bodies possible. In a way, I find this less impressive than Pilobolus, since the sculptures look interesting but lack the intense coordination and strength demonstrated in the Pilobolus works.
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