IPP research [H2]

1. Trinity

I don't even know if this can be considered as an art work, but I found some interesting connections with the last hand-out (the cycles). The film is called "Dexter" and he is investigating a killer who commits a cycle of murders: he kills 3 people every year in the same location, in the same way, as a ritual for those who he has lost many years ago. His sister was killed in a bathtub, her mother jumped from the top of a massive building and his father got beat to death. The ash of his family motivates him to do this ritual and to choose his victims according to his dear and lost family and to kill them in a simmilar way, in simmilar locations, so that he accomplishes a full cycle every year: firstly he kills a young girl in a bathtub, than he pushes a married woman who has 2 children from the top of a building and then he beats a father of 2 children untill he dies. This is his code, his ritual, the expression of his feelings, his "art work". The art is considerated as a NEED, not a luxury, but a need that may haunt and push someone to non-existent boundaries.
The stucture of his work is progressive and the theme and the variation are very obvious. I looked more attentive to his movement while making his ritual and I can say it has a natural pattern, progressive rhythm and it definately has a narrative.
2. Species

 I was looking more carefully at Gemma's piece's structure. The creative process that I have been through is more easy to understand now that I have the hand-outs about the structure. I enjoyed the way we all developed the movement from little gestures, we amplified it and the addition process is more clear for me now. The narrative was not clear, or maybe inexistent, but there was definately a very interesting collage of ideas in this work. Saying out words with no sounds, moving from the heart, using all senses, climbing walls, being up-side-down and moving like a creature- all came out from a simple observation of some tarantulas.

3. Salsa

 My third piece of art is the salsa culture. This week-end I have been researching about how salsa came to life and it is incredibly interesting. It is actually a fusion of manifestiations of different african sclaves that have travelled from their tribs ( Yoruba, Bantu and Efik) to different places like: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Miami, Ney York, etc. This dance represents different rituals toward many Gods that belong to old religions like Santeria. It keeps changing by adding intruments, by playing with rhythms and by repeating some lyrics/words/sounds. The duration of any song is for about 3-4 minutes and it has a clear narrative, as the lyrics talk about love stories. During my research I have noticed the development of this culture, the way it travelled and what transformations it had suffered, its relation to the gods and people. The slasa is danced all over the word by people who don't even know each other but they use the same language: dance.