Millepied's Dancers
I think style most aligns with Millepied's approach in this piece: the female dancer expresses such a limp, languid and languorous feeling, almost as though she were rag doll compelled into action by the male ballet dancer, the music, and indeed the audience. Her posture, and the balance of her head (constantly rolling around on her shoulders as body poses then collapses in the arms of her male counterpart, at once stretching and rising with the swell of the music and then crashing as though the feeling and movement were impossible to sustain). Perhaps it is the music itself, its unending repetitious quality, that tugs at Millepied's dancer's and thus gives us the style that we see on the stage -- or perhaps it is Millepied's own sense of our culture -- stuffed, artificial, inauthentic, yet propped up by these traditions -- art, music, dance -- which he sets before us, inviting us to see the dancers the way we once watched Pinocchio as he wrestled with his "strings" under Stromboli's stern and watchful gaze.
Indeed, the feeling that the music gives is alternatingly uplifting and oppressive and this is expressed in the dancers' phrasing, as they pause, attempt to gather themselves, participate in a motif, before seemingly letting the air out as the oppressive surge of some inscrutable thing weighs down upon them and us all. This could be the effect of manipulation on the part of the musical score, which Millepied identifies and incorporates into...
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