Week 41: 'Movement ... leaves a trace of our desires.'

Wonder spawned in: 1971
Wondered into being by: David and Anna Marie Holmes
Wonderspan: 10 minutes
To experience this wonder at its best: Make sure you can hear the sound and click the 'full screen' icon, switch up the resolution to 480p.

We interrupt this programme for an urgent moment of slowness:

• http://www.nfb.ca/film/ballet_adagio

I love this as a way of loving the human body as a sort of living river, wrapped around another in a dance.

Norman Mclaren has made a few slow-motion 'studies' of dance on the Canadian Film Board site.

Extra...

But if you like your dance to snap, here's Carmen Amaya from 1944:

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGClZNiEj3A

Susana Robledo says that 'flamenco is basically a sense of life'; thanks to Claire L for proposing it for a Monday wonder.  Claire proposes the following dance by Eva Yerbabuena, especially for 'the moment of rhythmic ecstasy' from 6:00 to 6:42:

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUJd53z9Y4E

And there's also this, from Canada again, by Louise Archambaut, just for the short bit from 2:37:

• http://www.nfb.ca/film/lock
  

___________________
www.waysofloving.com