Silent Sky | Cielo Silente
El Ávila, Venezuela 1998
Silent Sky 1998
Photos: José OrtegaSilent Sky 1998
Silent Sky is a solo multimedia dance that journeys on an intimate and magical memory of a child's loss of her father during Venezuela's revolutionary movement in the 1960s.
This was my first work integrating visual narrative into a dance performance. From here on, using moving images became a device to expand my dance performance as it explored complicated content.
This was my first work integrating visual narrative into a dance performance. From here on, using moving images became a device to expand my dance performance as it explored complicated content.
Choreography, story, directing Livia Daza Paris
Camera Manuel Gruber Paris Sound engineering Edgardo MorenoVoices: Alba Daza and Livia Daza-Paris
Film features: Alba Daza (girl)Felix Oropeza (father)
Camera Manuel Gruber Paris Sound engineering Edgardo MorenoVoices: Alba Daza and Livia Daza-Paris
Film features: Alba Daza (girl)Felix Oropeza (father)
Silent Sky 1998Part one of video presented at live performance
Silent Sky 1998Part two of video presented at live performance
Silent Sky was commissioned by Vivine Scarlett to be presented at Dance Immersion Dance Series http://www.danceimmersion.ca/archive-presentation. Dance Immersion is “an arts organization serving dancers, choreographers, teachers and the general public who express themselves through dance, their culture, and concerns of the African Canadian population.”
The work was premiered at Toronto's Harbourfront DuMaurier Theatre and partly produced with support from the Laidlaw Foundation and the Toronto Arts Council.
The work was premiered at Toronto's Harbourfront DuMaurier Theatre and partly produced with support from the Laidlaw Foundation and the Toronto Arts Council.