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From graphic, minimal and abstract, Carolyn Carlson’s dance became theatrical and narrative. Her “Blue Lady” solo is the beginning of this transformation.
Of the famous solo Blue lady (1983), the director and choreographer decided to keep only a few powerful images: the woman in the hat, painted death… The film takes us on a bucolic walkabout through the landscapes of Finland, the dancer’s adoptive home. To René Aubry’s pleasant and catchy music, Carlson offers a gestural ode to nature.
From graphic, almost minimal and above all abstract, Carolyn Carlson’s dance has become theatrical and narrative. The solo Blue lady is one of the premises of this transformation. This was the direction Charles Picq took when he put into images this danced self-portrait, three years after the creation of the show that Carlson performed world-wide. Poetic overlays of images, stops, slow and fast motion give the danced material a dreamlike density and create a “fantastic realism” that the choreographer will later develop in many of her productions.
Source : Patrick Bossatti
