Visuals

What's Beyond Dance EXHIBITION | Cartagena, Colombia

6 Dancers | 4 Countries | 1 Art

Greg, Darlyn & Ronald | Cartagena, Colombia

iDp Focus (Workshop) | Cartagena, Colombia

Eli & Richie | Cartagena, Colombia

Anthony Paul Panesso | Paris, Francia

Katie Mattar | New York City, USA

Genna Carey | New York City, USA

It was a special moment where we shared with the community part of the process we’ve been working on the last 6 years.

 

‘What’s Beyond Dance’ marks the first exhibition by insightDproject. It took place in the city of Cartagena, Colombia on August 30th, 2018. We’d like to thank to the Alianza Francesa Cartagena de Indias for this opportunity to share part of the process.

 

Also, we’d like to thank to all the people (Dancers, choreographers, producers, consultants, musicians, coaches) involved with the project, and the people who showed up on this special day, for making this possible.

 

One step at the time. Dance helps to change lives!

It was a two-years-in-the-making video. An amazing experience though. There were days waking up quite early, cold freezing ones, hot-humid ones, getting to know outstanding and unique people, dancers, the unusual spot, locations and such a beautiful palette of cultures.

 

Here’s the outcome of an amazing journey that I hope it can last forever in the minds of those who were part of it.

 

Dancers

 

  • Gladia Marchetti (Italy). Location: Paris, France.
  • Carolina Orozco (Colombia). Location: Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Ofelia Omoyele Balogun (Italy). Location: London, United Kingdom.
  • Robert Prein (Netherlands). Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Anneloes Van Schuppen (Neherlands). Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Maurice Causey (USA). Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Assitants

  • Cécile Jaouen
  • Glenn Westphal

Ronald, Darlyn & Greg

It took us over a week to set this up; get the right spot, check on every detail of the choreography. The first day we shot, the energy was up in the sky because of the result we were getting. On the next day, when the second session was rolling, we all felt disconnected, we had decided to try out a new location. The vibe was completely different. By the time called it for the day, early in the morning, we knew that some arrangements had to be done in order to get back to that vibe we experienced on the first day.

 

So it was on plain sight, it was going to demand some choreo adjustments but it was the right thing to do. Get back to the first spot, the bridge. Greg, Darlyn and Ronald met up after their regular working day and went back to the bridge that night, under the Caribbean drizzle and adapted the choreography to the reduced space. The following morning (can 5:40 am), they were on time, excited and ready to call this day a wrap.

 

This video is the result of committed and passionate dancers giving their best to express what their bodies claim to feel.

 

Hat off.

iDp Focus (Workshop) | Cartagena, Colombia

This activity was carried out in Olaya Herrera, the biggest neighbourhood in the city of Cartagena; this area also stores one the highest rates of poverty in South America. The idea was to conduct a pilot of what it-would-be a dance workshop for the project.

 

We had the collaboration of Fundación Huellas del Mar, and professional dancers part of iDp (Carolina Orozco and Greg García).

Eli & Richie

It was good 6 days producing this video. We could only shoot from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. due to different factors, among those, controlling light, people and the dancers daily work.  Eli & Richie are owners of a speechless, delighting and inspiring vibe. When they dance together, it seems that the world stumbles and time stops for fractions of a second to see them perform pure human magic.

Anthony Paul Panesso

Right after the photo session with Anthony and Lucía, Anthony wanted to improvise a quick choreography, so we thought it’d be nice to do it down this particular rue in Paris. Passage Taillandiers.

 

I found this particularly uncomfortable, due to the fact that I didn’t have with me the proper equipment to video produce. In the end we managed to have a cool, smoothy sesh. Be the judge.

Oh New York, I recalled we had a perfect weather that summer afternoon, aiming to catch the golden hour. The location was a private parking lot, which we didn’t know until the security guy came up to us and asked us to leave asap. 

 

We shot this video in about half an hour and this one sets  the transition from to color to black and white in the project. By then I was still trying to find a feeling identity for the project. I had been shooting black and white previous to this though.

Katie Mattar

Genna Carey

Visually everything started right here with Genna, We met two days before to talk about the idea I had of a dance project. She was hooked from the get going.

 

Even the first dance photos I ever shot was there in Brooklyn, I wasn’t even sure about which lens I had to use. First thing that came up to my mind was to shoot with a wide angle, playing safe and because that’s the lens I used all the time during my skateboarding years.

 

I remember it was a cloudy afternoon, our last ‘sunlight’ in NYC (we were heading back to Colombia the next day) and we were rushing trying to find the location to roll the video.

 

We found this rooftop in Brooklyn where Genna improvised this marvelous choreography.