Postmodern dance is a 20th century dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. The postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson Dance Theatre, the home of postmodern dance. (Wikipedia, 2017) Postmodern dance values movement as a vehicle for a hidden meaning, with the sense that the audience happens upon the meaning. Glow by Chunky Move, a dance created by Gideon Obarzanek and interactive software creator Frieder Weiss in 2005. With the use of interactive projectors
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He became interested towards the end of high school which caused him to study at the Australian Ballet School after graduating university. After dancing with a few dance companies, he then worked as an independent performer and choreographer with numerous dance companies and independent projects around the world. Gideon Obarzanek became interested in dance, in his younger years. He learned how to push boundaries and that had pushed him into becoming a choreographer. Glow by Chunky Move became popular when it was released because with the use of the company’s works, new-media and installation works throughout the dance it created an interest to the audience using the new technology installed with interactive projectors following the dancer on stage. It has created a positive view on him, but Glow has a hidden dark and possessive meaning behind it. Obarzanek is now known to be exemplary at keeping postmodern dance alive, therefore making him a successful …show more content…
His choreographic technique uses a dancer throughout the piece doing a solo. Through the use of the flexibility the dancer has within Glow, it adds effect of how postmodern dance is a form that is essentially through the body and experienced physically but analysed intellectually. In a way I’m making a piece that very much reflects my kind of relationship to dance. I’ve analysed it enough I think, after 20 years. (Gideon Obarzanek, 2014) Obarzanek, has created a unique work using just one dancer doing a solo part for the whole piece. He has created himself a piece that thoroughly portrays how postmodern philosophy of how human kind is breaking down. He joins with his dancers to create a piece, with the joint task of putting more than one type of dancing together, he creates frustration with himself wanting him to leave but keeps getting pulled back into a dance
He became interested towards the end of high school which caused him to study at the Australian Ballet School after graduating university. After dancing with a few dance companies, he then worked as an independent performer and choreographer with numerous dance companies and independent projects around the world. Gideon Obarzanek became interested in dance, in his younger years. He learned how to push boundaries and that had pushed him into becoming a choreographer. Glow by Chunky Move became popular when it was released because with the use of the company’s works, new-media and installation works throughout the dance it created an interest to the audience using the new technology installed with interactive projectors following the dancer on stage. It has created a positive view on him, but Glow has a hidden dark and possessive meaning behind it. Obarzanek is now known to be exemplary at keeping postmodern dance alive, therefore making him a successful …show more content…
His choreographic technique uses a dancer throughout the piece doing a solo. Through the use of the flexibility the dancer has within Glow, it adds effect of how postmodern dance is a form that is essentially through the body and experienced physically but analysed intellectually. In a way I’m making a piece that very much reflects my kind of relationship to dance. I’ve analysed it enough I think, after 20 years. (Gideon Obarzanek, 2014) Obarzanek, has created a unique work using just one dancer doing a solo part for the whole piece. He has created himself a piece that thoroughly portrays how postmodern philosophy of how human kind is breaking down. He joins with his dancers to create a piece, with the joint task of putting more than one type of dancing together, he creates frustration with himself wanting him to leave but keeps getting pulled back into a dance