I was supposed to blog about the dance part of Art in Motion but I was to lazy to so I'll tackle two subjects in one post.

Last Wednesday was the dance workshop. It's sad to say this but I think that the dance part was way better than the music (and I'm more interested in music). I'm going to be honest. I think I fell asleep for 5-10 minutes during the lecture about the different dances. However, I was completely awake after that. I was able to catch every performance.

Sometimes, my own taste surprises me. I was really happy to see the Indian dance. I've never seen one of the more traditional dances aside from the snake dance. It amazes me that every single muscle in the body is used. Think about it. Even the eyes, eyebrows and the smile is part of the performance. It's like even the face dances. It takes some amount of mastery to be able to do that. The movement is very different too compared to western dances. It (Indian dances)shows another perspective or interpretation of what is being portrayed.

Here are two dances from one of my favorite movies. Madhuri Dixit who plays Chandramukhi had to return to dance school just to be able to perform those moves:







Classes this previous week was spent talking about what makes film film. It's acutally very insteresting because I've been getting different views on what I've been watching. I never thought that the yarn in Cinema Paradiso was an allusion to Penelope in the Odyssey. It really makes you think. There's actually more to film than we imagine. It's like there's this other dimension to it that we don't know. This makes me wonder about Philippine Cinema. I haven't watched a film on the big screen for a long time now and a Filipino movie even more so. How is the film industry? I kinda lost faith a couple of years back because of what they've been showing during the Film Fest. I don't know. I don't see quality. Where has the likes of Oro Plata Mata gone? Maybe they're low on budget or something.

Anyway, I must remind myself to comment on Bollywood films and the token Filipino comedy when I get some free time.