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From: Kurt Ralske <kurtralske@earthlink.net>



New York Times review of nato.0+55 video + dance performance at
Merce Cunningham Studio

Wednesday December 12, 2001

Blurs and Blots Joined in Sound and Motion
by Jack Anderson

   Things kept moving in "Analog vs. Digital for a Free Mind,"
the program that a mixed-media organization called Radical Low
presented on Saturday night at Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.
But the most interesting movements were not those of the dancers.
   Sound and motion were ingeniously allied in two untitled sequences
created by artists associated with 242.Pilots, a group of electronic
composers and video designers.
   In both pieces, as electronic music swelled and faded, constantly
changing patterns crossd a large video screen. Blurs and blots expanded
and contracted. Severe geometrical shapes were contrasted with flowing
lines and occasional glimpses of human faces.
   When live bodies appeared on the stage they almost seemed irrelevant.
Two pieces were by Chantal Yzermans, the group's Belgian-born founder.
"RL1," a solo, was based on slow bends and rises to electronic music by
a composer known as Hrvatski. And there were deliberately wispy images of
a dancing specter by collaborators called Miau Analysis.
   Other wispy video figures, created by Kurt Ralske and Lukasz Lysakowski,
appeared in "Pond Assemblage," a trio for Hristoula Harakas, Litsa Kioussi,
and Cara Regan to electronic music by Nicholas Marantz. But the video ghosts
were more compelling than the dancers.
  No video effects accompanied "Doubt Not," concieved and performed by
Malika Bassaid to live saxophone music by Michael Attias. In this solo, Ms.
Bassaid gradually disentangled herself from a white cloth. Yet her actions
had little dramatic impact.
   It was an evening in which technological wizardry was stronger than
choreographic imagination.

....

242.pilots == Miau Analysis ==
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