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THE BODY THE SOUL I |
THE BODY THE SOUL II |
THE BODY THE SOUL III |
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THE BODY THE SOUL IV |
THE BODY THE SOUL V |
THE BODY THE SOUL VI |
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“La
danza è una forma originaria dell'essere umano... e al tempo stesso
una forma originaria dell'essere in generale... è la verità e al tempo
stesso la giustificazione dell'essere stesso del mondo, la più
inconfutabile ed eterna di tutte le teodicee. Non insegna nulla, non
discute nulla - incede maestosamente, e con questo incedere maestoso
porta alla luce il fondamento di ogni cosa: non volontà e potenza, non
angoscia e pena, non tutto ciò che vuole imporsi all'esistenza, ma ciò
che è eternamente
signore di sé e divino. La danza è la verità di ciò che è, ma, nel
modo più immediato, la verità di ciò che vive". (W.
F. Otto) Euro Rotelli Un grazie particolare a
Paul
Seaquist (www.seaquistdancemarketing.com)
Jas
Otrin (www.otrinartmanagement.com)
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THE BODY THE SOUL Dance
is an original native form of the human being... and at the same time it
is the native form of the person itself... it is the truth and is at the
same time the justification at the human being in the world, the most
irrefutable and eternal of all the theories. It teaches nothing, it
discusses nothing - stately walks, and with this stately walk brings out
the foundation of everything: not will or strenght, not anguish and
sorrow, not everything that wants to impose the existence, but only what
is lord of itself is divine. Dance is the truth of what it is, but, in
the most immediate way, the truth of the “living”. (W.F.Otto).
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AS THE SHADOWS... Not willing to surrender do colors integrate to light; not willing to surrender do lovers give themselves to night. Shadows live and die in shadows, Life lives and dies in life: Love lives and dies in love as dusk turns in to day Turns into night… How can we forgive the passage of time, the passage of life as we grow older than our yesterdays… How can we forget the movements of past movements, The steps of past steps: our youth. How can life surrender so quickly like surrenders a lover to a kiss, a kiss to a sigh, a sigh to a wake up call and a criystal morning breeze… How do we succumb to the dryness of our skin, To the shadows of the heart To the rain drops that damped our soul When was youth sweet and sweat and passion and dreams and wet dreams and… When was youth...? Wet deserts, dry oceans, as mysterious as an eclipse in the middle of the day, the night. The image in the mirror, is only the image of the mind The image in the mirror of lovers eyes is the image of the heart, The image of the soul is the mirror of the mirror of melancholy, Our silent smiles, Our final breath before giving up to sleep To silence To weep… I touch the sand of times and smooth snow touches my face I free fall in to the abbys but awake in Heaven Extasis Orgasms Nights Cheap pills and blue wine… I awake as the sun sets in distant waters, in distant times I awake to the shadows of processions Processions of birth, Funeral processions, Love Love processions Processions just As shadows become shadows As shadows become one As shadows become shadows As the shadows… By: Paul Seaquist |
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THE BODY THE
SOUL Quello che
lascia di stucco il lettore, e lo induce ad avventurarsi nell’utopica
impresa apparentemente “impossibile” di ogni grande fotografo della
danza, è la deliberata passione per il rischio di questa emozionante e
fiduciosa avventura: cioè l’inseguire la contraddizione assoluta,
forse la più amabile e più amata. E di dimostrare che la passione, la
devozione, la fiducia e l’immensa potenza che la danza ha sullo
spettatore, riescono a spazzare via le sbarre della prigione apparente:
la prigione di un immagine fotografica necessariamente fissa, sempre, in
ogni istante di uno spettacolo di danza sia solistica, sia di gruppo.
All’occhio del profano – e “profano”, in questo contesto, è lo
spettatore non abituato alla danza – il fotografo è specialmente
eroico e geniale quando “fissa” i momenti estremi, i più acrobatici
o emotivamente coinvolgenti, di una danza solistica o corale. Tuttavia,
la storia della fotografia di danza è, invece, ricca di autentici
capolavori. Ci sono, infatti, tante foto, presenti nelle innumerevoli
“storie della danza e del balletto”, in cui un buon numero di
straordinari fotografi sono riusciti a cogliere il soffio, o il respiro,
di un grande danzatore (o danzatrice), anche nel solo “dettaglio”, in
primo piano, del suo volto, proteso verso l’infinito.
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Euro Rotelli, together with some of his peers, is a hero. Hero of that 'impossible' art that is the Dance Photography. Paradoxically, the usual definitions like 'stop the wind', 'Terpsichore Caught Flying by an Indomitable Lens', or simply 'Terpsichore Observed' spring to mind, in sync with the admirable title by the English writer Christopher Fry - 'Venus Observed'. I think that it is truly exciting for Rotelli, as it is for some of his illustrious colleagues, to heroically follow - sometimes throughout an entire career - the idea to conserve for ever the most beautiful of all transient activities: the dance. Lucky are the dancers of the past and, naturally, the present century that the photographic technologies allowed them to dream the 'impossible by nature'. Because
with photography it was possible 'to fix' forever the aerial and dynamic
of all art: dance. And its jumps, flights, leaps towards an imaginary
target, in some ways 'other' or 'elsewhere'. What
leaves readers astonished and induces them to take chances with this
utopian and apparently 'impossible' adventure for all great dance
photographers, is the deliberate passion to take the risk for this
emotional and trustworthy adventure: that is to follow the absolute
contradiction, where perhaps the most likeable is the best loved. And to
demonstrate that the passion, devotion, trust and the immense power that
the dance holds over the spectator, manage to break away the barriers of
that apparent prison: the prison of a necessarily fixed photographic
image, always and in every instance of a dance whether solo or a group
dance. To the eye of a layman – the layman in this context is any spectator not used to dance - the photographer is specially heroic when he 'freezes' extreme moments, the most acrobatic and emotionally involving, of a dance. Nevertheless, the story of dance photography is full of authentic masterpieces. There are, in fact, many photographs, present in innumerable 'dance or ballet stories', showing that a good number of extraordinary photographers managed to capture a breath or an inhalation of a great dancer, in a mere 'detail', in the foreground, of his face, stretched towards the infinite. Vittoria
Ottolenghi |