{"id":15989,"date":"2018-05-24T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T16:17:43","slug":"body-language-exhibit-focuses-on-similarities-between-visual-art-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/05\/24\/body-language-exhibit-focuses-on-similarities-between-visual-art-and-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Language<\/em> exhibit explores the human body and its expression through art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suddenly Dance Theatre artistic co-director David Ferguson explores the human body and its expression in\u00a0Body Language<\/em>, an exhibit featuring the work of 19 artists. Ferguson\u2014whose work is exhibited in the show\u2014says Suddenly Dance Theatre, who this exhibit is a fundraiser for, is often an ambassador for culture in Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s value in recognizing a local company in being a face of the city,\u201d says Ferguson. \u201cWhen you think of all the travel you\u2019ve done, and all the places you\u2019ve visited, and how you look at places and how you understand their culture, it\u2019s through their arts organizations or through their institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson says art is a refection of the emotional state we feel.<\/p>\n

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Body Language<\/em> looks at the human body through the medium of visual arts (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen we look at dance, and, I think, when we look at visual art, we\u2019re looking at reflections of ourselves,\u201d says Ferguson. \u201cWhen we see a bunch of dancers on stage dancing, they\u2019re dancing for us inside our bodies, you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

The same thing happens in an art gallery, but in what Ferguson describes as a more documented feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of my work is captured on a bad camera and it\u2019s gone, so it\u2019s fun to have the dance and the body being reflected in a somewhat more tangible reality of visual art,\u201d says Ferguson. \u201cI feel like I have a foot in each world, so to speak. It\u2019s just about exploring the mediums in which I inhabit, and to be able to enjoy\u2014and be surprised by\u2014the world that I live in: the world of the body and the world of the visual arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson says his work is abstract and, therefore, completely motivated by the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn dance, we\u2019re always working with the same marks that artists are working with,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s the spirit that\u2019s being expressed through the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson says that for him, the motivation is the same for dance as painting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really differentiate too much between the source,\u201d he says. \u201cThe source of the motivation is the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s different is the mechanics of the mediums, whether it\u2019s dance or art or film, says Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all this one big bowl of soup, ultimately,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re working with a core motivation that is creatively coming out. The biggest difference with visual art is I\u2019m working with colour; in dance, the colour comes last. It comes with the costumes and the lighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Body Language
\n<\/em>7 pm, Thursday, May 24 until Sunday, June 3
\nFree, Fortune Gallery
\nsuddenlydance.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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