BodyVox Invites Famous Non-Dancers To Make Dance
b'What happens when a conductor, a chanteuse, and a visual artist walk into a dance studio?
To start out, you get words and descriptions like \\u201cfloorography\\u201d and \\u201cit\\u2019s jazz crabs versus hot rocks.\\u201d That is, if you\\u2019re working with the likes of Pink Martini singer China Forbes, Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar, and artist Malia Jensen.
The dance company BodyVox has always delighted in pushing boundaries, whether defying genre by mixing in things like opera or monsters, or defying physical laws by using video projection to make it look like they\\u2019re dancing on the wall. Now they\\u2019ve invited eight well-known local artists to choreograph new dances for \\u201cThe Pearl Dive Project.\\u201d Only catch? None of the artists are choreographers. Alongside Forbes, Kalmar and Jensen, there\\u2019s a landscape architecture firm, a film director, a composer, and more.
\\u201cWe thought this has never been done: you find very highly evolved creative people in their field and then they jump from that field to our own and apply their creativity and imagination in choreography,\\u201d says BodyVox\\u2019s co-artistic director Jamey Hampton. \\u201cSo we became the curators of an absolute gusher of creativity.\\u201d
Full story: http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/bodyvox-china-forbes-carlos-kalmar'