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Published on: 9/20/2009
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Choreographer/dancer Alissa Cardone spent much of the summer in the MCLA Gallery 51 Annex, experimenting with the installation.
"It's sort of evolved from
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working with particular films in that particular space," Cardone says.
"It's really about relationships.
It's almost vaudevillian in how the dance relates to the images in the space."
The performance involves two characters.
"It's an interaction between a man and a woman," Cardone says.
"It eventually moves into a union, and then the final sequence of images is the power of the female character in these movies and the incredible silent film actresses.
They were a huge influence."
The dancers reconstruct the embellished gestures, zealous eye movements, exaggerated postures, and dramatic spatial pathways of the films with manipulations of speed, focus, and movement quality influenced by Butoh and contemporary dance forms.
Kinodance Company is an artist collaborative founded in Boston in 1999 by Wainright, Cardone, and filmmaker Alla Kovgan out of a passion for the kinetic arts, experimentation and a strong belief in the power of interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Cardone says The Refractive Kinoscope, which was commissioned by DownStreet Art, is different from anything Kinodance has done before.
"It was really exciting to work with an installation space," she says.