David Michalek: “Slow Dancing”

For his latest project, ‘Slow Dancing,” David Michalek wanted audiences to experience dance in a way that had never before been possible. So he gathered many of the finest dancers in the world from disciplines that ranged from ballet to Javanese court dance to hip hop to Flamenco; recorded thousands of frames of footage on a high-speed HD camera typically used for ballistic analysis; then used Final Cut Pro and Shake to slow the footage down to such a degree that a five-second dancer’s gesture stretched into a ten-minute film. The result: an experience that is “akin to meditation,” Michalek says: “art that doesn’t merely beautify, but beatifies, or makes blessed.”

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