PORTRAIT by Micaela Taylor for Poussin and the Dance

"PORTRAIT" is a dance film by Micaela Taylor, founding artistic director of The TL Collective, commissioned by the Getty Museum for the exhibition "Poussin and the Dance," on view February 15-May 8, 2022. Taylor’s film is one of three unique responses by Los Angeles-based choreographers to the legendary French painter’s many scenes of wild revelry, dancing nymphs and satyrs, and dramatic action drawn from classical myth. Emphasizing her choreography’s signature glitch-like movements and extreme facial expressions, Taylor deconstructs Poussin’s elaborate scenes to isolate and investigate the internal struggle depicted on individual faces. Staged within the mathematical grids and textured stones of the Getty Center’s architecture, the dancers blur lines and forms taken from classical dance into their otherwise freeform movements and unsettling smiles appear on their faces aimed right at the camera. This slipstream between the classical and the unconventional, the joyful and the disturbing, echo the disarming way Poussin creates ravishing beauty out of moments of chaos and violence.
Credits: Choreographed and Edited by Micaela Taylor. Directed by Silvia Grav.
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