Shadows from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
In 2007, I created this performance at CRS with butoh performer Corinna Brown. Corinna was previously seen here in the post Emergence. The music is a live improvisation by Dan Fabricatore on upright bass.
This is a shadowplay and a painting performance. The use of shadows on a translucent screen allows us to play with the relative scale of the performers.
In one of my artist’s statements, I said “The act of drawing, like dancing or making music, is a highly focused form of movement in time. The expressive power of drawing is all about rhythm and flow, feeling and modulation. So I have been drawn to try to capture the qualities of movement through drawing, and to explore drawing itself as a performance art.” I’ve been doing drawing/painting performances for many years. This is the first one to appear on this blog.
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This week I’ll be leading workshops at the Sirius Rising festival at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York, so I won’t have the chance to do a new post until after July 19. See you then.
