Been working with dancers for a couple of years now, and I’m slowly learning what kinds of choreography resonate with me.  (Not that I know anything about it.) I’ve been having this dream, of a kind of pedestrian baroque dance, full of irony and elegance.  Period movement with a Cunningham sensibility maybe?  A little looser than Mark Morris, but with that degree of rigor in the phrasing.  With a gravity that winks.

…prefacing this next link by acknowledging the difficulty, sometimes, of watching dance on film…  (I admit that this clip sometimes falls into the aesthetic of a 1980s Sesame Street short.) And noting the challenge, from a musician’s perspective, of seeing great and familiar music interpreted in a different way.  But, that said, I really enjoyed this film by Benjamin Millepied and Olivier Simola (Bach Ciaccona, Szeryng recording).

Below is a link to part two of the short film (beginning of the D-major section).

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