DANCER
HD BLACK-AND-WHITE VIDEO TRANSFERRED FROM SUPER 16 MM FILM WITH SOUND, 25 MIN., 2011
To think with the body, to dance.
Dancer is a film about movement.
Inspired partly by the late Pina Bausch (1940-1990) creator of the dance theater movement Tanztheater, Friedman - like Bausch is not necessarily interested in how people moved, but rather, what moves them. To this end, the film observes the dancers' internal monologues, made manifest through self-scripted movement.
People dance in the streets of Miami. Outdoors under the sun and moon. The camera moves along with them. Tethered, it orbits each dancer, like another half. Dancer uses street corners as a stage, street lamps as spotlights and storefronts as backdrops. We see ourselves and how we move. The reason to move is what is filmed here. Not on stage but on a patch of street. A patch of stage shared with the flaneur, the tourist and the worker on lunch break.
Friedman records the body thinking. Its blood pumping, its breath syncopating and its molecules vibrating. In a world where every thing moves, Friedman and her camera embrace those things that are filled with will and agency. Those things that think with steps and choreography.
Together with: Eric Boyd, Chelsea Reyes, Sandra Cenecharl, Afua Hall, Jean-Aurel Maurice, Loren Livick, Munier Zavala, Jeremy Martin, Kristofer Powell, Dwayne Green, Yali Romagosa, Rivkins Christopher, Jillian Mayer, Luis Neira, Nevien Mohamed, Josuée Germain, Lisa Miranda, Michelin Janvier, Vanessa Nicholson, Isis Masoud, Michelle Soto, Michael Joseph, Barbara Alfonzo, Angelina Battle, Equilo Porto, Wayne Krassner, Portia Lange, Nilas Granados, Belaxis Buil, Patrick Fleming, Oscar Caballero, Shannon Taylor, Celia Fonta, Sandra Portal, Ilana Reynolds, José Dominguez, Lucia Aratanha, Priscilla Marrero, Eugeniu Pereu, Kimberly Roberts, Allisen Learnard, Ivonne Batanero, Andy Hermann, Amber Caddington, Samara Rolle, Wesley Wray, Trina Soumare, Sheena Martin, Bill Spring, Katherine Alvarado, Aliro Zapata, Krystle Aguilera, Lina Ferrera, Angeles Cardenas, Jessie Gold, Elizabeth Hart, Lydia Bittner-Baird, Heather Maloney, Nikki Rollason, Annilie Hartley, Carlota Pradera, Jennifer Fain, Effy Polizogopoulos.
