The company recently negotiated a new union contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists to take into account dancers' rights in terms of media distribution.
With the dancers bouncing around, getting down and dirty in slow-motion, the visual element is both sensual and provocative even though the dancers are unconventional in terms of music video fare.
Orgs et al. have analyzed the EEG signals of professional dancers and nondancers in terms of beta power and ERD (event-related desynchronization) in beta frequency band.
"The hard part is, yes, I can always teach, but the life of a dancer is so precious in terms of time," said Elizabeth Auclair, another Graham dancer said.
None of the Farrell company's dancers look world-class in terms of physical perfection or technical glory, but all show virtues of absorption and inflection that you often wish more ideally gifted dancers showed.
Though he makes his dancers look imaginatively involved, in terms of execution they're better at the idiosyncratic gestures with which he characterizes each dance than at its more purely dance material.
None of the dancers are remarkably accomplished in terms of technical skill, but they all show you what's challenging about each dance, and so you're briefly hooked by watching them tackle this balance, that little unison hip-wiggling routine to that bit of music, this turn, that backward walk with the torso arched.
All the nuzzling, prowling, stalking, snaking, shivering and slithering features of the dancers' movements made perfect sense in terms of African wildlife.
He pounces on any dancing that looks generic or habitual, goading his dancers to be absolutely specific in terms of line or musicality.
Seeking to distinguish himself from Martha Graham, with whom he danced (and whom he married), Hawkins developed an austere style that nonetheless maintained a supple approach in terms of a dancer's relationship to gravity.
