Ballet as Male Art Form

Rojo on the different approaches to the choreography, male and female.  Men start from the body, steps, 'like porn'. Commented by Mackrell.  

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Elissa Blake on Emmanuel Gat ("Make the first move")
Gat asked each dancer to create a 15-second phrase of movement. Then he asked the other dancers to translate it. "Like translating French into English. It has the same meaning but it is a completely different language," Gat says. "If you have very good dancers, like these here, with an artistic weight, you get a very good result.
"I don't interfere at all. Then, later, I will shape it and give it a choreographic vision."
"I've got to a point where all of the movement is generated by the dancers, so I can turn my attention to the music," he says. "It's really interesting for me to see how similar the logic and the tools are between music and dance.

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Richard Alston: "Sometimes I feel that people are straining and distorting in order to be inventive. I don't feel that need. I find the activity of dancing a very harmonious and joyful one, and it's that physicality that I'm interested in exploring."