Wiseman

Some quick notes on Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse.

• Sacrifice: the pain, the feet, the lower back, the pain, the feet, the bunched up toes, the pain the feet the scissor’d jetes.
• Dancers: “half nun half boxer”
• Every individual sequin hand sewn on costumes. Every shoes sprayed with paint, wigs made, tools made, everything made, made, made. Every eyebrows attended to on an individual basis.
• Extremity of the body in all its possibility. Extend. Extend. Extend. Minimalist fat so we can see every muscle where he starts and where he ends.
• Are legs really that long?
• silence
• Feeding the five thousand a la Bernada Alba. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
• Man repairing the roof with plaster.
• Moments. Single Moments. Establishing shots that repeat or situate being the string.
• Clocking in: The dancers heads move past the posters, door opens, bag on shoulder.
• Precision and pain.

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