To Capture Emotions, The Dance Performance: ‘Flight Patterns’.

© Image by Alicja from Pixabay

Simply breathtaking, I had forgotten about the evocative power of dance, of its ability to create an atmosphere and delineate stories, to convey and capture emotions, to entice you into a hypnotic trance. I was simply blown away with this performance. The Wow, the unexpected, that challenged my preconceptions, one could not preempt the narrative: the static and dynamic, displacements of bodies and flows, the singular and the plural, the pose: the framing of space and time: the dance. It teased and captivated and compelled you to watch, lest you miss a nuance. The kinetic energy propelling you forward into the unknown: new experiences to be had.

I loved how people came out of the theatre with different interpretations of the performance, a real sign of a compelling work of art: was it about the migration of birds, about Auschwitz. Well, I guess it conveys a universal message, we see events unfolding today, but we choose to bury our heads in the sand, to much information to assimilate, leave it to history to communicate to us present horrors.

I hear people talking about making films with myriads of endings. For me, the sign of an engaging piece is its ability to enable us the viewers to narrate our own endings, and this piece does just that.