ALL DEAD
clara saito - dance | karel doing - concept & image
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the performance all dead features a remix of sequences taken from the 1934 hollywood classic dames by busby berkeley and the night of the living dead, a zombie film by george a. romero from 1968. _clara saito dances with and within the projection, thus connecting the opposite worlds of the two films
clara saito: 'dame' or 'living dead'
in 2011, doing gave a workshop ‘dance and camera’ at the amsterdam school for new dance development (sndo). _clara saito was one of his students. _she filmed a selfportrait, in which she underwent the transition from sugar-sweet to fully deranged. _her personality, in which the opposites seemed to merge in a natural way and the impression of her film stuck in doings memory. _when the cbk-schiedam invited him to contribute a performance to the suikerzoet film festival in november 2011, he immediately thought of clara
|kd| the performance is far from pretentious. _it's rather a playful kick in the ass of busby berkeley. _he's the one who ordered hundred women to spread their legs simultaneously in his musicals. _he really made wonderful choreograpies, with precursory elements of the abstract art movies that were made later in the fifties. _ he's a true avant gardist in that sense. _his movies look fantastic, but they're so hostile to women at the same time ||
clara saito was born in brasil and grew up in switzerland. _there, she started performing with different street theatre groups. _she currently studies choreography at the sndo (school for new dance development) in amsterdam and performs regularly
