https://www.simonascotto.com/my-top-5-pick-of-things-to-see-in-london-this-easter-2014/ Dance Artist & Educator for over 50's Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:10:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 https://www.simonascotto.com/my-top-5-pick-of-things-to-see-in-london-this-easter-2014/#comment-355 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:30:18 +0000 https://www.simonascotto.com/?p=627#comment-355 Re portraits at NPG. I was particularly struck, chilled and moved by the contemporary footage of very young soldiers marching towards a killing field. Their youth, grinning, and their cocky bravado towards the camera, and how we know in hindsight how many of these young men were killed or wounded within hours of that film. The photos and paintings of the maimed and disfigured faces uncompromisingly portrayed. The vulnability and fragility of the carapace that is the outer shell of the body. External damage. The internal damage of the shell-shocked, the internally wounded, the traumatised. The losses. Actual loss, death. But loss of hope, faith in goodness.
How can trauma be portrayed in dance? Maybe by conveying dissociated or frozen states of mind. Arrested. Contrasting with the mania and hope at the start. Like the men in the film. Sue

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