Shen Wei is a combination of painter and choreographer. His paintings are often expressive abstracted pieces that seem, to me, to have a very human feel to them. Whether this comes from the creation of the work or from the subject matter it is apparent that his work flows with energy.

From the point of view of the choreography and dancing this is not an area where I feel that I can make a considered comment as it is not a subject that I have studied. However in the two examples of his work that I have replicated below there is an expression of the movement of dance or of the dancer.

Tony Orrico

Tony Orrico’s work use all of his body and physicality to make repeated marks on paper. He reminds me of a human spirograph in that he often rotates his body through 360 degrees on the floor. These are often performed live and captured on video. The resulting drawings whilst interesting and a document of the process are problematical to define.

I watched the video of the performance that created the above drawing and will perform my own version of this process.

This I have now done and my thoughts and the results can be seen under Coursework – Part One – Exercise One on my blog.

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