{"id":865,"date":"2021-03-16T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/masked-moves-and-ballet-in-the-bath-a-year-of-digital-dance\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:39:15","slug":"masked-moves-and-ballet-in-the-bath-a-year-of-digital-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/masked-moves-and-ballet-in-the-bath-a-year-of-digital-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked moves and ballet in the bath: a year of digital dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience<\/p>\n

The first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina C\u00e9line Gittens on my laptop screen, bourr\u00e9eing past a pot plant<\/a>. Then in a different living room, cellist Ant\u00f3nio Novais drawing out a Saint-Sa\u00ebns melody, and in another house, pianist Jonathan Higgins, all deeply engrossed in this re-creation of The Dying Swan, music crossing the divide.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the pandemic, the dance that appeared online was all about trying to connect. That\u2019s what was moving about Birmingham Royal Ballet\u2019s The Swan<\/a>, or the Alvin Ailey company\u2019s dancers performing Revelations<\/a> in their New York apartments, or the companies doing their ritual daily class over Zoom and inviting us to watch or join in. It was a way of witnessing people apart but moving in harmony, absorbed in the same actions, finding a rhythm together, closing the distance.<\/p>\n

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\nWith stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience
\nThe first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina C\u00e9line Gittens on my laptop screen, bourr\u00e9eing past a pot plant. Then in a different living room, cellist Ant\u00f3nio Novais drawing out a Saint-Sa\u00ebns melody, and in another house, pianist Jonathan Higgins, all deeply engrossed in this re-creation of The Dying Swan, music crossing the divide.
\nAt the beginning of the pandemic, the dance that appeared online was all about trying to connect. That\u2019s what was moving about Birmingham Royal Ballet\u2019s The Swan, or the Alvin Ailey company\u2019s dancers performing Revelations in their New York apartments, or the companies doing their ritual daily class over Zoom and inviting us to watch or join in. It was a way of witnessing people apart but moving in harmony, absorbed in the same actions, finding a rhythm together, closing the distance. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience The first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina C\u00e9line Gittens on my …<\/p>\n

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