La ilusion de la realidad

“Mood” #305

Collage art by Karen Lynch of Leaf and Petal Design

Illustrations i done for Fantasy Flight Games - masterpost.

The Ancient of Days, 1794, William Blake

Gertrude Kraus in dance pose

Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Temptation of St. Anthony

Tomislav Peternek :: Snalažljivost (biciklisti) / Getting about (cyclists) – Kragujevac, 1955 / source: peternek

Salome, Francis Picabia

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Description and photos via cloudgate.org

Witness the emotional power that lies before you, you will be shattered.

It is a silent cry for peace, a masterpiece about human dignity

Braunschweiger Zeitung            

Grieved by the plight of refugees and displaced communities of the 21st century, Lin Hwai-min choreographed to Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. Calling the work Dust, he seems to imply that, in face of cruelty, human beings are fragile and insignificant like drifting dust.

Smoke whirls in the air. Dancers clad in black and dark brown costumes, stagger and crawl, making brief appearances out of the smoke in the dim lighting. Against projection of desolate images of strong colors, they collapse and struggle to stand up. Once and again, they cluster in lines or in groups for protection, only to be broken down. Towards the end, they hang themselves in a standing position, with their mouths opening and closing like fishes out of water. Smoke slowly swallows them up… Dust cries out from the darkest of the night, evoking memory of Goya’s Black Paintings.

Concept and Choreography: Lin Hwai-min    

Music: Dmitri D. Shostakovich

Co-production:  National Performing Arts Center – National Theater & Concert Hall, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany

Photographer:  LIU Chen-hsiang

Video via: Cloudgate youtube