Click here for the YouTube excerpt. Went to watch modern dance "Sinfonia Eroica" (set to the "Heroic Symphony", Beethoven's Third) by Belgium choerographer Michele Ann De May on Saturday.
There were nine dancers on stage. In the first ten minutes, I did not get too much out of it, because I found myself unable to concentrate on all nine dancers. I then decided to concentrate on three of the dancers, two female (one with the yellow skirt, the other brown) and one male (the shorter guy with the green pants). Things gradually took shape for me. By the end of the dance, I was very relaxed, and able to watch all nine of them on stage, and come to my own interpretation (and enjoyment) of this dance piece.
Twirling dresses, half-buttoned shirts
Nine friends, or four courting couples
All sitting on a bench. Each takes a turn
To be a Hero. She dances like a diva
He falls over like a dunce -
They all learn to laugh together.
A flying trapeze, and all that water!
Some splash freely, others roll gently...
Do you fall in love easily, or carefully?
Couples come together, they split up
All change partners, but one
Remains single by necessity.
I think I have grown quite fond of Beethoven's Third recently.
