I loved watching the close-up shots of this engaging HD dance video on Vimeo. The video is titled "Yael Serfaty Dance Project" and is described as "A special improvisational dance filmed for a video installation of Yael Serfaty" -- (Watch on Vimeo to see high-quality version):
I would like to see more dance performances and installations shot, edited and uploaded like this. For me, there's nothing like high-quality video and close-up shots to get a real feel for the dancers who are performing.
The odd thing is that I have no idea who the choreographer is or who the dancers are. I did a search on the video title name and Zin, but came up with nothing that makes much sense. Can anybody help?
Merkavah is described in mystical texts as 'the Devine Chariot' or 'vehicle through the heavens'. Geometrically, it's visualized by two pyramids intersecting one another with one pointing up and the other down (like the Star of David). The center is of a hexagonal shape.
We designed a hexagonal mirrored space (see "Making Of" below), which only reflects from the inside. These special mirrors made it possible for us to film through the structure and capture the dance from 6 different angles simultaneously and reflecting in multiple layers. I ended up with a lot of footage, making an edit for a single screen for television in 2002. 5 years after broadcasting the film, the club 11 space gave me the opportunity to make a 6 screen video installation of Merkavah. This meant that we finally could present the work as it was shot, synchronous from different angles. I edited the movements of the dance with time-remaps over the different screens, to emphasize the traveling through the heavens - 'the body through the geometry'.
