Essential Dance Film - OneTwoThree

Tension between two ballet dancers (Dana Caspersen of The Forsythe Company and former Ballet Frankfurt dancer Thomas McManus) evokes qualities of both duet and duel, poised ambiguously at the boundary between embrace and battle, intimacy and violence. With all extraneous detail stripped away, the co-dependent nature of this duet is laid bare.



A tensão entre dois bailarinos (Dana Caspersen de The Forsythe Company e o ex-bailarino do ballet Frankfurt Thomas McManus) evoca qualidades de duetos e duelos, equilibrados de forma ambígua na fronteira entre abraço e batalha, intimidade e violência. Com todos os detalhes estranhos removidos, a natureza co-dependente deste dueto é descoberta.