David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing" time based instalation (natacha)

Outdoor Art Installations - Summer 2007

Throughout the month of July, Lincoln Center Festival 2007 presented David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing,” hyper-slow motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers from around the world that will be projected, larger than life, on screens suspended from the New York State Theater promenade.

Using a high-speed, high-definition camera recording at 3,000 frames per second, Michalek captures each dancer’s gestures and movement with a precision and definition that has never been seen before.

Michalek's subjects are some the today’s foremost modern and classical dancers and choreographers as well as noted interpreters of traditional dance from Southeast Asia, the Pacific Rim and Africa. Featured artists will include: Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Streb, William Forsythe, Shen Wei, Wendy Whelan, Eiko and Koma, Allegra Kent, Judith Jamison and Wu Hsing-Kuo. The combination of cutting-edge imaging technology and breadth of high caliber dance artistry creates a mesmerizing experience.

http://www.davidmichalek.net