To me, this is the raw vulnerability of two people who want to be loved. Two people who are terrified at how effortless it is to let yourself be helpless with someone who fills all of the empty crevasses you knew about and the ones you never noticed till they showed you. The push and pull of surrendering, the fear of truly letting go and trusting they'll catch you, carry you, protect your heart. Caressing the parts of your soul you wouldn't fathom reaching for.
Elliot lied to Emma for years and took away time off her life she could have found someone to have a longterm relationship with you. Elliot abused Emma and manipulated her since he always knew he was a man and knew she's a lesbian only attracted to other women. I hope Emma finds therapy and can some day admit that she married someone who gaslit her, lied to her and abused her trust. Emma deserves better. I support the transgender comm but I don't support liars and Elliot took away Emma's chance to only be married once. Elliot also took away Emma's engagement and I'm sure Emma only wanted to be engaged once which Elliot ruined. Elliot knew he was a man but married her anyway and thus Elliot is a predator. Rich, white, male predator with privilege to avoid all consequences for his actions. Also the fact that Elliot had sex with Emma while knowing he was a man makes the sex not consensual bc Emma only consented due to thinking she was sleeping with a woman. Y'all defending this behavior need help
The whole video was them almost getting close, but pushing and pulling away, or doing so much just to get that closeness when it could all be so simple. In the end they could only get close with a weight above them, a weight which they were both carrying.
Wow. This choreography is so intense and passionate. As a former dancer, I can appreciate how much practice this must have taken. To be able to express with your movement all the love a body can hold. I am humbled to witness this. I love Elliott ever more. This is an act of authentic, raw and unapologetic love, adoration and respect for another, as it should be. This is sacred grace. Thank you both.
Emma is the one who should feel empty. After all, Elliot lied to Emma for years and took away time off her life she could have found someone to have a longterm relationship with you. Elliot abused Emma and manipulated her since he always knew he was a man and knew she's a lesbian only attracted to other women. I hope Emma finds therapy and can some day admit that she married someone who gaslit her, lied to her and abused her trust. Emma deserves better. I support the transgender comm but I don't support liars and Elliot took away Emma's chance to only be married once. Elliot also took away Emma's engagement and I'm sure Emma only wanted to be engaged once which Elliot ruined. Elliot knew he was a man but married her anyway and thus Elliot is a predator. Rich, white, male predator with privilege to avoid all consequences for his actions. Also the fact that Elliot had sex with Emma while knowing he was a man makes the sex not consensual bc Emma only consented due to thinking she was sleeping with a woman. Y'all defending this behavior need help
Shannyn Kell Shannyn Kell that's it. that's exactly what I'm feeling and I didn't know what it was. I just want to disappear into this feeling and float around for a while. It somehow makes me feel safe and loved and oh so sad.
@@LeekowalskiWalker Assuming you are asking in good faith, Elliot used to go by Ellen, however since he has come out, he has changed his name to Elliot, so the title is just changed to reflect his name change. So the title was correct then, and is correct now.
its a casual friday afternoon, minding my business, sipping my iced latte, nbd, watching some tube, scrolling the gram. then this lil doodad pops up on my queue. 'oh, what a nice song that is, so lovely ya', i think to my self. click on the tab. sees dancing. 'damn damn damn they dance like the feels are eating them alive' i think to myself. watches the whole video. i'm shook. my back is on the butt part of my computer chair and i'm slouched all the way down typing this wondering how something can be so beautiful and you know what i don't even want to know because that's how beautiful this lil doodad was i don't deserve to know how something can be this beautiful imma just sit *lay* here in my computer chair and think about how shook this got me what a beautiful thing. thanks you
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I know by now it probably sounds cliche, but to me this is about coming out, about wanting something so bad, while being too terrified to reach out and touch it. You see Emma trying to lead her, to show her that it's worth it being brave. You can almost watch the whole story unfolding, with Emma trying to teach her how to spread her wings and fly, with Ellen stiffly resisting. You even see her in that t-shirt move, trying to hide the identity of the person she loves. Yup, there's definitely an actual story being shared with us herde.
it took me a while to be able to write this as I sit here, quietly crying, in awe of how your bodies move together. of the passion between you two. the story. this is poetry. thank you.
Made me cry, loved the emotion of Elliot under the chair on the floor just felt like you’re reaching out and want to either have or be with the other and just is amazing, was so cool to see not only one side portraying a vulnerable ideal but instead showing a sense of their own vulnerability and the other trying to aid or assist
I want to thank everyone a part of this video from the bottom of my heart. Last night, my girlfriend broke up with me through text, and there's two days left until both of us graduate. It was the most painful experience of my life, and I'm still consumed with grief. Even before the video, I started to watch this video and listen to this song almost every day because it made me feel like I wasn't alone in the struggles of a gay relationship. Now that it's over, I don't want to exist because every moment kills me. I know life goes on, and I have promised not to do anything to myself. I just needed to let Ellen and Emma know how much this dance means to me. Thank you, and I wish you the best.
the word that escapes me is vulnerable. the ability to be selfish and selfless at the same time, expressing their love for each other but expressing how much they want to be loved. the push and pull dynamic of their dance was entrancing and raw and beautiful and somewhat defeatist. I loved every second.
@@LeekowalskiWalker it escapes me because I can't be that. To let myself be that vulnerable is to be able to to trust someone to see me at my weakest point. That's not happening. Did you come here to be a dick or did you have something insightful to say?
Then vulnerability does not escape you. If you don't let yourself X, that is not X escaping you. Also, to say a word escapes you, which you did, means that you can't remember the word.
Dear Elliott, My favorite character of yours is in the movie that you played the crazy chick, *Super-(something). You should have gotten an Oscar for that part. You nailed it man.
I just got a tattoo last month and part of it is a quote from Super. "That's where we are now, right? We're in-between the panels?" Elliot is also my favorite, The Creeping Bam Boltie lol
i always come back to this, so beautiful, i don’t do dance personally but i do a lot of theatre and using chairs and other everyday objects to create a beautiful story is probably my favourite thing to work with. creating a story from something nobody would see as other than it’s function, and leaving a story with it, i associate everything with everything else and that is exactly what i love about this, association.
I wrote a comment on You Don't Live Here Anymore that I even preferred it to Slack Jaw. I take it back. They're both amazing at capturing the struggles of love. Beautiful work. Congratulations!
It's like the chair represents each of their personal challenges, and those challenges they latch onto and it keeps interfering in their relationship - but by the end the issues aren't gone, but they've connected and are working to get rid of them together. At least this was my interpretation. What a beautiful video
I got all the parts I wished for I've got everything I need Sometimes I'm above water But mostly I'm at sea Oh, slack jawed me Can't you see? There's so many rhythms and harmonies And I'm walking the dog back It's not like I got hurt or broken Or ruined on the way It's an ache and it shines through me A swallow in a cage Oh, slack jawed me Can't you see? There's so many rhythms and harmonies And I'm walking the dog back Is it a sign? Or just a landmine? Or a feeling roaming free? It's overtaken me Gonna hold it 'til it dries up Or pocket it for another day If it's me I cannot give up I'd rather that she stayed Oh, slack jawed me Can't you see? There's so many rhythms and harmonies And I'm walking the dog back I got all the parts I've wished for I got everything I need Sometimes I'm above water But mostly I'm at sea Oh, slack jawed me Can't you see? There's so many rhythms and harmonies And I'm walking the dog back
I only found this today, but it's made me weep. I've loved this song for a while now, and seeing you and Elliot perform to it with such honesty and dignity is devastatingly beautiful. All my love to you both.
I love the angst of both the choreography and performance. I'm not sure there's supposed to be a correlation between the lyrics and choreography, but I like both. Love the facial expressions. Great camera work.
I know nothing about dancing except for the fact that I love seeing it from the artistic perspective in a sense that every movement is so symbolic and it conveys the beauty within emotion; it's art, really.
It...kind of looks like Elliot was going to cry at the very end. Unsurprising, this was very moving, I wouldn't be surprised if he, or both of them, at the very least teared up after watching this back. It was so beautiful and I can't believe I'm only just now discovering this in 2021.
Two phenomenal artists who fully understand their own vessels and use them to paint such a hauntingly human portrait each with their own color. Watching Portners body move so decisively and gracefully is so freaking mesmerizing. And Page has a frailty and almost pre-pubescent fear and trembling accompanying her own limbs movement- and it is equally mesmerizing. Pages physical storytelling appears more of an acting exercise, even her facial expressions are riveting. So cool to appreciate two great artists and see them tell such a story so honestly. So grateful for this art.
I really couldn't figure out where they were going, the constant struggle and push and pull. I'm a really analytic person and think a lot when I'm watching something because I get lost in tiny details. This video gave me the feeling of confusion and nostalgia, what surprised me though was that it ended too soon, it didn't feel like three minutes at all, they went by like seconds. Beautiful work!
Not quit sure what to say, what to think... but this is so amazingly intense and pure, and by far the most touching performance I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing this wonderful dance with the world.
@@fzfxfcf i know :( that's how I found the video, he was a trending topic on TH-cam for a while when he came out. So sad they split up but so, so happy for him becoming his true self
I was simply on TH-cam looking for some interesting video, I saw this video and I stayed ... This video is simply incredible, the choreography is fascinating but the deepest part is the feelings that it makes you feel in yourself. This video is very deep.
I'm losing my shit over this. So incredibly happy to see you having collaborations like this, Emma, and so in awe of both of your performances here--which outshine any celebrity status. Cried a whole lot of tears. Thank you.
Sometimes is so difficult to be open and enter in relationship wit completely naked soul. But when you start to fall for someone, and then you begin to love them, you have to take off your heavy curtains and never ever put it back.
I love this song. I guess the reason TH-cam recommended it to me is because of the actor for umbrella academy, but this song and choreography really hits home run. Very talented singing and choreography that represents how this song feels, and what it means, and the fact that I can relate to it, makes it many times better. Good job.
OMG I love the Passion and the story that came with it! For me it's Two people who want to be Loved, who need eachother to be loved😭💗 such a Beautifull choreo! Totally Love it, I could watch this for Hours😢💕
Good art, like this, has many interpretations. I see the chair as a rigid construct, like an identity created by society. Emma and Ellen struggle to live and love within the boundaries of the construct, but only by going deeper, physically underneath, do they find fulfillment. This was beautiful work. Thank you for sharing, Emma and Ellen.
There is so much this piece is saying and it's so powerful. I love when Emma moves Ellen's legs , as of helping her walk. And then when they have their legs entwined and one of each of their legs is on the ground, showing they are supporting each other, becoming one. It's just so beautiful.
someone broke my heart a month ago after 10 months of what I thought was love. This song somehow simultaneously keeps me going and tears me apart. I wish I could share these emotions with him one last time. But he has forgotten me, probably forever.
I like they changed his name in this, and this is one of the most beautiful things I've seen when u see 2 people dance who are in love it's just amazing...that's why it's so sad they're not together anymore.
I'm in awe about this talent and courage. I can feel their souls and feelings just like I would have been there. They just poured out their hearts in this piece of art. Thank you so very much
This was gorgeous. I'm taking a "Movement for the Actor" class right now for my major in college and things like this are what I hope to have a good understanding of by the time the class is over. 💕
I... did not know Ellen was such a good dancer. I have no idea if she’s good in technique or whatever, but I also don’t care because this is just beautiful and these two need to be protected.
So I just learned of this union today, and I have to say is without a doubt one of the most beautiful things happening in the universe. Congrats you two. My wife and I are local (to upstate NY) and would love to treat you ladies to a home cooked (vegan or vegetarian ) meal. Sincerely, Friends you haven't met yet
It's interesting to read the varying opinions. I think I took from it a slightly different perspective from many others. To me it seemed like it was the internal struggle of accepting oneself throughout life while trying to shake off the expections of a society that merely wants people to be the puppets of perfection, to dance to the same tune of the bland normality, so that life may be lived with the freedom of love. It begins with a nurturing gesture like at birth, but quickly becomes more of a puppeteer pulling the strings as parents begin to shape teach their child to conform. As the child tries to develop and think for themselves, they deviate from the puppeteers movements, but is quickly smothered in an almost stranglehold that has still retains a loving aspect. The child is carried by friendship and solidarity, but lacks the energy to be themselves. That is until they meet another like-minded person and begin to break free, but remain constrained by one another in the close friendship to the point where it become almost suffocating, because there is an attraction they are trying to fight. But they work at it, while searching for the faults inside themselves to mend their breaking friendship (as with Emma tipping and testing Ellen's whole body and limbs). Finally the person realises that the secret to freedom is to stand tall and confident, to trust in their belief system and in the person before them. To be unafraid of the judgements and to feel the relief of freedom that comes with the truth. Slowly they begin to learn from their one another to trust and find it within themselves to love. But fear still grips the person, locking them into place as they fight to accept an aspect of themselves that they find it hard to confront. But they are freed by their friend's support and together they build a strong foundation, in which they reveal their mutual strong feelings for one another and finally reach a new level of intimacy.
BananaPizza Wow, I’m going to have to watch this piece a number of times in light of your very intelligent analysis and also what the other commenters are saying. I’ve only watched it once and all I can say, very beautiful! It moves me, but I haven’t attached a story or a meaning to it yet. Only some feelings: passion, longing, reaching. Two souls trying to connect. There... already beginning to attach meaning.
To me, this is the raw vulnerability of two people who want to be loved. Two people who are terrified at how effortless it is to let yourself be helpless with someone who fills all of the empty crevasses you knew about and the ones you never noticed till they showed you. The push and pull of surrendering, the fear of truly letting go and trusting they'll catch you, carry you, protect your heart. Caressing the parts of your soul you wouldn't fathom reaching for.
Maren Monster Beautiful description! I love what you wrote.
Maren Monster hugs :)
Maren Monster this
Maren Monster I love that, poetic and true.
Beautiful thoughts -perfectly fit to amazing video. So touched
I really appreciate how they changed the title and description to Elliot's proper name! That makes my little transmasc heart very happy
I was just about to comment the same thing!!! It makes me so happy to see the title name change too 😌💓
yeah me too!
We love a artist that understands calling someone by their deadname is triggering we stan much love and respect
well i mean it is his wife sooo
@@lilnamJ Eliot uses he/they pronouns thanks tho
I can't tell if they're holding each other together or tearing themselves apart, and the result is very powerful
Ruining each other.
Next question.
Its both.
Elliot lied to Emma for years and took away time off her life she could have found someone to have a longterm relationship with you. Elliot abused Emma and manipulated her since he always knew he was a man and knew she's a lesbian only attracted to other women. I hope Emma finds therapy and can some day admit that she married someone who gaslit her, lied to her and abused her trust. Emma deserves better. I support the transgender comm but I don't support liars and Elliot took away Emma's chance to only be married once. Elliot also took away Emma's engagement and I'm sure Emma only wanted to be engaged once which Elliot ruined. Elliot knew he was a man but married her anyway and thus Elliot is a predator. Rich, white, male predator with privilege to avoid all consequences for his actions. Also the fact that Elliot had sex with Emma while knowing he was a man makes the sex not consensual bc Emma only consented due to thinking she was sleeping with a woman. Y'all defending this behavior need help
They're spazzing out on a chair. That's all I got from this.
@@abeltesfaye_ what the fuck went through ur mind that made u think this was a good thing to type out and post??
The whole video was them almost getting close, but pushing and pulling away, or doing so much just to get that closeness when it could all be so simple. In the end they could only get close with a weight above them, a weight which they were both carrying.
Dhanishta 💕
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Astounding depiction.
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Dhanishta Reading that makes watching this even more beautiful if thats possible..
I don't know why I'm crying. This just feels like.. arguing, worship, fixing, love, struggling, intimacy. Beautiful.
The fact that she changed his name after 3 years this video released😭💖
@@claraantonellaberrospicobo9529 omg i thought u meant elliot so sorry
I know right, totally bizarre.
@@LeekowalskiWalker no, that's not. That's called respect.
He.
@@Salviamente_Celes she
Wow. This choreography is so intense and passionate. As a former dancer, I can appreciate how much practice this must have taken.
To be able to express with your movement all the love a body can hold. I am humbled to witness this. I love Elliott ever more. This is an act of authentic, raw and unapologetic love, adoration and respect for another, as it should be. This is sacred grace. Thank you both.
this makes me realize how empty I feel. this makes my heart ache. this makes me reminisce about a love i never felt.
Agree
Emma is the one who should feel empty. After all, Elliot lied to Emma for years and took away time off her life she could have found someone to have a longterm relationship with you. Elliot abused Emma and manipulated her since he always knew he was a man and knew she's a lesbian only attracted to other women. I hope Emma finds therapy and can some day admit that she married someone who gaslit her, lied to her and abused her trust. Emma deserves better. I support the transgender comm but I don't support liars and Elliot took away Emma's chance to only be married once. Elliot also took away Emma's engagement and I'm sure Emma only wanted to be engaged once which Elliot ruined. Elliot knew he was a man but married her anyway and thus Elliot is a predator. Rich, white, male predator with privilege to avoid all consequences for his actions. Also the fact that Elliot had sex with Emma while knowing he was a man makes the sex not consensual bc Emma only consented due to thinking she was sleeping with a woman. Y'all defending this behavior need help
me too. thx for ur words!
Darling, stop watching mentally ill people. Learn from wisdom that has been proven true for ages. You will feel full of life and fulfilled.
How does this make me feel so whole and hollow inside?
Shannyn Kell Shannyn Kell that's it. that's exactly what I'm feeling and I didn't know what it was. I just want to disappear into this feeling and float around for a while. It somehow makes me feel safe and loved and oh so sad.
Shannyn Kell i agree
Shannyn Kell holy crap your comment was as goody as the video!😶
Shannyn Kell whole and hollow?
That doesn't make any sense.
I love the fact Emma corrected the title after Elliot came out :) so wholesome
Was it previously incorrect?
@@LeekowalskiWalker yeah, it used to have Elliot's deadname on the tittle, because the video was uploaded before he came out.
So it was previously correct and now it is wrong?
@@LeekowalskiWalker Assuming you are asking in good faith, Elliot used to go by Ellen, however since he has come out, he has changed his name to Elliot, so the title is just changed to reflect his name change. So the title was correct then, and is correct now.
Logically it can't be both unless the law of the excluded middle does not apply here. Is that the case? And, if so why doesn't it apply?
its a casual friday afternoon, minding my business, sipping my iced latte, nbd, watching some tube, scrolling the gram. then this lil doodad pops up on my queue. 'oh, what a nice song that is, so lovely ya', i think to my self. click on the tab. sees dancing. 'damn damn damn they dance like the feels are eating them alive' i think to myself. watches the whole video. i'm shook. my back is on the butt part of my computer chair and i'm slouched all the way down typing this wondering how something can be so beautiful and you know what i don't even want to know because that's how beautiful this lil doodad was i don't deserve to know how something can be this beautiful imma just sit *lay* here in my computer chair and think about how shook this got me what a beautiful thing. thanks you
Miles of Color I never wrote this much in my essay competition 😂
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Love this ❤
This is beautiful
Hey Amanda...I just want to say u r amazing...it's unfortunate that I found ur videos only about a month ago..I have watched all of ur videos and I have learned soo much...I love what u do...movies reviews and the book reviews..my whole life I have never considered anyone as my idol but I have to tell u Amanda...u r my one and only shining idol...I love the way u speak... express and complain ..😊😊😊..
I had a dream last week where u and I were watching a movie together in a theatre...u won't believe which movie we were watching...it was splice🤪
Weird I know...it was soo disgusting...we were laughing and making fun of it....I suggested....wait more like begged u to make a review on this movie...u said u would absolutely make one soon...I was soo happy..
Then we went to a concert ..I don't remember which band was it...but I remember it was loud and we both were getting uncomfortable and I passed out😅...that's when I woke
I am currently a 12 grade pass out and currently studying bjmc ..I wish to work in films...and ur videos have just strengthened my dream..i wish to be like u someday...thank u soo much for existing .🙂😁
Hope ur family is doing well .I will pray for ur happiness and and wish u all the best and happiness for ur future endeavours. Love from India
Ur greatest fan
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Lol of course we'd find you here Amanda. You're in love ;)
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of my favorite TH-camrs commenting on videos I randomly come across.
.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder...... The song is beautiful for sure.
La neta no
I know by now it probably sounds cliche, but to me this is about coming out, about wanting something so bad, while being too terrified to reach out and touch it. You see Emma trying to lead her, to show her that it's worth it being brave. You can almost watch the whole story unfolding, with Emma trying to teach her how to spread her wings and fly, with Ellen stiffly resisting. You even see her in that t-shirt move, trying to hide the identity of the person she loves. Yup, there's definitely an actual story being shared with us herde.
Yeah. Art can be interpreted in so many ways & you make sense. Turns out they're actually married! :)
Boy,
That’s deep
looks more like sofia and sofia...
Wow, very deep and beautiful interpretation
Yeh and then at the end they’re almost crushed by the weight of all that (the chair) but then they carry it together
i'm not sure what this was but i know it was art
Abby Williamson yes it is
It is about two people wanting to be together but it the last part pulled away by society, fear etc. It surely is art!
Paulien I thought the reason they were pulled away is that they couldn’t agree on the placement of that chair
So true
Exactly
it took me a while to be able to write this as I sit here, quietly crying, in awe of how your bodies move together. of the passion between you two. the story.
this is poetry.
thank you.
hey, i thought i have to say something, spontaneously.
i feel the same way.
have a good day or night, wherever you are.
jestem kotem ❤️
Can you be more pretentious
Go take a bath with your toaster.
Lovely that they updated his name :)
Made me cry, loved the emotion of Elliot under the chair on the floor just felt like you’re reaching out and want to either have or be with the other and just is amazing, was so cool to see not only one side portraying a vulnerable ideal but instead showing a sense of their own vulnerability and the other trying to aid or assist
I want to thank everyone a part of this video from the bottom of my heart. Last night, my girlfriend broke up with me through text, and there's two days left until both of us graduate. It was the most painful experience of my life, and I'm still consumed with grief. Even before the video, I started to watch this video and listen to this song almost every day because it made me feel like I wasn't alone in the struggles of a gay relationship. Now that it's over, I don't want to exist because every moment kills me. I know life goes on, and I have promised not to do anything to myself. I just needed to let Ellen and Emma know how much this dance means to me. Thank you, and I wish you the best.
Hope you're well now. You are loved. God bless you!
2023 and I still visit this about once a month ⚡️
the word that escapes me is vulnerable. the ability to be selfish and selfless at the same time, expressing their love for each other but expressing how much they want to be loved. the push and pull dynamic of their dance was entrancing and raw and beautiful and somewhat defeatist. I loved every second.
The word that you wrote is the word that escapes you? lol you are confused.
@@LeekowalskiWalker it escapes me because I can't be that. To let myself be that vulnerable is to be able to to trust someone to see me at my weakest point. That's not happening. Did you come here to be a dick or did you have something insightful to say?
Then vulnerability does not escape you. If you don't let yourself X, that is not X escaping you. Also, to say a word escapes you, which you did, means that you can't remember the word.
Dear Elliott,
My favorite character of yours is in the movie that you played the crazy chick, *Super-(something). You should have gotten an Oscar for that part. You nailed it man.
Love that movie
I just got a tattoo last month and part of it is a quote from Super. "That's where we are now, right? We're in-between the panels?" Elliot is also my favorite, The Creeping Bam Boltie lol
It started with a chair...
Haru Blanche Nice "Juno" reference!! 👊😄
Haru Blanche it ended with a chair.
I was gonna say this!
Junoo! 💜
brilliant reference!!
This is love, this is hurt, this is true, this is beautiful. It's coming out in a nutshell. Thank you.
i always come back to this, so beautiful, i don’t do dance personally but i do a lot of theatre and using chairs and other everyday objects to create a beautiful story is probably my favourite thing to work with. creating a story from something nobody would see as other than it’s function, and leaving a story with it, i associate everything with everything else and that is exactly what i love about this, association.
I am just like how is there so many ways to move your body that I don't know about. This is so incredible. So much heart here. I love it!
I wrote a comment on You Don't Live Here Anymore that I even preferred it to Slack Jaw. I take it back. They're both amazing at capturing the struggles of love. Beautiful work. Congratulations!
I just watched this, I cried, I get it and it's beautiful. Thank you for reaching and teaching me. Thank you. I wish you joy and peace. Thank you.
It's like the chair represents each of their personal challenges, and those challenges they latch onto and it keeps interfering in their relationship - but by the end the issues aren't gone, but they've connected and are working to get rid of them together. At least this was my interpretation. What a beautiful video
I got all the parts I wished for
I've got everything I need
Sometimes I'm above water
But mostly I'm at sea
Oh, slack jawed me
Can't you see?
There's so many rhythms and harmonies
And I'm walking the dog back
It's not like I got hurt or broken
Or ruined on the way
It's an ache and it shines through me
A swallow in a cage
Oh, slack jawed me
Can't you see?
There's so many rhythms and harmonies
And I'm walking the dog back
Is it a sign? Or just a landmine?
Or a feeling roaming free?
It's overtaken me
Gonna hold it 'til it dries up
Or pocket it for another day
If it's me I cannot give up
I'd rather that she stayed
Oh, slack jawed me
Can't you see?
There's so many rhythms and harmonies
And I'm walking the dog back
I got all the parts I've wished for
I got everything I need
Sometimes I'm above water
But mostly I'm at sea
Oh, slack jawed me
Can't you see?
There's so many rhythms and harmonies
And I'm walking the dog back
Teresa Valenzuela Mertz thank you so much
Scrolled through all comments for this ❤ lol
sometimes I forget this performance exists, but every time I remember, it never fails to touch me. and every time it means something different to me.
3 years has passed and i still love this with all my heart
I'm in tears, so beautiful!
youre actually not...you wanted the likes...
Sidney Klipklop how would you know that?
Domo because this video is completely stupid and weird and I'm guessing your comment truly was sarcastic 😁
I actually found the video to be moving!
m if the video is stupid and weird why are you here?
I only found this today, but it's made me weep. I've loved this song for a while now, and seeing you and Elliot perform to it with such honesty and dignity is devastatingly beautiful. All my love to you both.
I love the angst of both the choreography and performance. I'm not sure there's supposed to be a correlation between the lyrics and choreography, but I like both. Love the facial expressions. Great camera work.
This is the most intensed chair test i have ever seen!
This feels like a lovely, beautiful metaphor to their relationship ...
I wanna see the bloopers for this instead. I wanna know if they burst out laughing.
Anna Horsey YES!!!!
Anna Horsey I can imagine Ellen messing up and saying “Fuck! sorry”
Do you think this is acting and there where bloopers? I don't think so. Not at all.
@@marjaleena90 it would have taken hours to film yes. Yes of course there would be "bloopers"
elliot*
I know nothing about dancing except for the fact that I love seeing it from the artistic perspective in a sense that every movement is so symbolic and it conveys the beauty within emotion; it's art, really.
It...kind of looks like Elliot was going to cry at the very end.
Unsurprising, this was very moving, I wouldn't be surprised if he, or both of them, at the very least teared up after watching this back. It was so beautiful and I can't believe I'm only just now discovering this in 2021.
Two phenomenal artists who fully understand their own vessels and use them to paint such a hauntingly human portrait each with their own color. Watching Portners body move so decisively and gracefully is so freaking mesmerizing. And Page has a frailty and almost pre-pubescent fear and trembling accompanying her own limbs movement- and it is equally mesmerizing. Pages physical storytelling appears more of an acting exercise, even her facial expressions are riveting. So cool to appreciate two great artists and see them tell such a story so honestly. So grateful for this art.
I really couldn't figure out where they were going, the constant struggle and push and pull. I'm a really analytic person and think a lot when I'm watching something because I get lost in tiny details. This video gave me the feeling of confusion and nostalgia, what surprised me though was that it ended too soon, it didn't feel like three minutes at all, they went by like seconds.
Beautiful work!
So enjoyable , so sensitive, enjoyable, lovely! Love the chair prop!
[ feels lonely in lesbian ]
[sighs heavily in lesbian]
Loving how many of us related to this.... in lesbian
Lmfao woowwwwww
[ cries to sleep in lesbian ]
P.S
Not quit sure what to say, what to think... but this is so amazingly intense and pure, and by far the most touching performance I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing this wonderful dance with the world.
I had to try my hardest to hold back tears in the end and I can’t really say why, I love this it’s so beautiful
Thanks Ellen and Emma and staff for this beautiful moment.
It's Elliot and Emma now 😊
@@saoirseo9051 Oh thanks Saoirse and am sorry Elliot :)
this is breathtakingly beautiful, oh my god.
😂 yeah whatever you say bwahahaha
Just came across this... I’m in actual tears with how beautiful this is... thank you for touching my heart.
So much love for your movement, and for this piece.
What?! Wow! How am I only just seeing this?! Phenomenal
it's the most beautiful thing i ever seen on youtube
Brilliant choreography. So insightful.
I've never seen Elliot dance before and this is incredible wow. The chemistry is palpable.
they were married for 3 years and in this video they were in love. Sadly they divorced this year
@@fzfxfcf i know :( that's how I found the video, he was a trending topic on TH-cam for a while when he came out. So sad they split up but so, so happy for him becoming his true self
I was simply on TH-cam looking for some interesting video, I saw this video and I stayed ... This video is simply incredible, the choreography is fascinating but the deepest part is the feelings that it makes you feel in yourself. This video is very deep.
Love that elliots name has been corrected on their former work
SHE'S a FEMALE. SHE has was BORN with FEMALE GENITALS.
Can I morph something I'm not because I feel like it?
I like books, can I become a book?
@@ryanjames9599 and it seems you were born with a pistachio for a brain!!! Exciting!!
@@markuslouw3727 Nice argument.
just want to thank ep & ep for ever existing. this is timeless.
I'm losing my shit over this. So incredibly happy to see you having collaborations like this, Emma, and so in awe of both of your performances here--which outshine any celebrity status. Cried a whole lot of tears. Thank you.
@@Angela-zv1fw and now she's pretending to be a he and they getting divorced. Heart emoji
@@LeekowalskiWalker he uses the pronouns he/they, please be respectful.
Good for whoever you are talking about. I use the pronouns I deem appropriate.
@@LeekowalskiWalker the "appropriate" pronouns for Elliot are he/they. It's like that and you can't change it.
No, that’s actually not how language works at all.
Go learn English.
These two getting married is the best thing to happen in 2018 so far. This dance is beautiful, I keep coming back.
How have I not seen this sooner?! I’ve been a major fan of Sylvan for years, and this is by far my favorite song they’ve done... Beautiful video!
that is so incredibly touching and beautiful at the same time
Jaja es gei (baile del trolleo) 🕺💀
Love so much that hey went back and fixed his name :)
Her name
@@LeekowalskiWalker his, actually
Science says you're wrong.
@@LeekowalskiWalker how exactly?
The medical professionals at her birth correctly identified that she is a girl. They did so using science.
This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my entire life.
Aww this hits different now that they are filing for divorce.. :(
Their intense passion will be preserved in this art forever ♥️
Elliot never got married though. There's no record of him ever getting married.
Love is love, even when it finishes. :)
@@LeekowalskiWalker did you go under every comment to spread hate. get a life.
Why are you being hateful?
This is by far the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on youtube
Sometimes is so difficult to be open and enter in relationship wit completely naked soul. But when you start to fall for someone, and then you begin to love them, you have to take off your heavy curtains and never ever put it back.
The hand movements is just 👌🏻🥺 *chef kiss*
the performing arts scene needs more moments like these :)
this is really really really beautiful
i love how raw and vulnerable this is. it shows how human they both are and how it’s okay to feel things. this is beautiful
Absolutely beautiful
and emma put elliot omg love you
I'm just happy I saw Ellen Page face again somewhere here..
did something happen to her ?
Same
his name is Elliot
@@zstevenson8416 they didn't know 3 years ago
@@zstevenson8416 Oh for Jesus’ sake.
I love this song. I guess the reason TH-cam recommended it to me is because of the actor for umbrella academy, but this song and choreography really hits home run. Very talented singing and choreography that represents how this song feels, and what it means, and the fact that I can relate to it, makes it many times better. Good job.
Je parle pas anglais mais je souhaite que du bonheur a ellen page et sa petite ami est la videp est juste magnifique is beautiful
Léa Foubert c'est clair, c'est magnifique
Léa Foubert J'étude le français à l'école et je suis heureuse parce que j'ai compris ton commentaire 😊 (aussi je suis d'accord avec toi)
I couldn't look at the comment and watch as i do most videos my attention was so focused i didn't want to miss a second of beautiful movement
OMG I love the Passion and the story that came with it! For me it's Two people who want to be Loved, who need eachother to be loved😭💗 such a Beautifull choreo! Totally Love it, I could watch this for Hours😢💕
DYZ
Wax
I did watch this for hours❤️
I watched this video at least 20 times now. I finally broke down in tears.
I don't know why this affects me so much! Really powerful performance, you guys. Great work!
Good art, like this, has many interpretations. I see the chair as a rigid construct, like an identity created by society. Emma and Ellen struggle to live and love within the boundaries of the construct, but only by going deeper, physically underneath, do they find fulfillment. This was beautiful work. Thank you for sharing, Emma and Ellen.
Hey id like to inform you that they go by Elliot now and their pronouns are they/them :)
There is so much this piece is saying and it's so powerful. I love when Emma moves Ellen's legs , as of helping her walk. And then when they have their legs entwined and one of each of their legs is on the ground, showing they are supporting each other, becoming one. It's just so beautiful.
Hey id like to inform you that they go by Elliot now and their pronouns are they/them :)
I accidentally played this at the highest speed CX When I realized I went back to watch it again, and I can say it´s much better at the right speed ♥
I adore Emma and Elliot so much. Two powerful souls.
Sad that the transition transitioned them apart.
someone broke my heart a month ago after 10 months of what I thought was love. This song somehow simultaneously keeps me going and tears me apart. I wish I could share these emotions with him one last time. But he has forgotten me, probably forever.
I like they changed his name in this, and this is one of the most beautiful things I've seen when u see 2 people dance who are in love it's just amazing...that's why it's so sad they're not together anymore.
it's so sad right? I came to this video when I read about their divorce and they were so much in love here.... It's sad
I'm in awe about this talent and courage. I can feel their souls and feelings just like I would have been there. They just poured out their hearts in this piece of art. Thank you so very much
This is so beautiful. I nearly cried.
*This Is Oh-So-Beautiful ... Wow... So Moving & Intimate... So Emotional & Powerful. Thank You.*
WHY am I JUST NOW finding this?!?! 😍
I've been an emotional wreck lately and this made me cry so hard
This was gorgeous. I'm taking a "Movement for the Actor" class right now for my major in college and things like this are what I hope to have a good understanding of by the time the class is over. 💕
You both have all of my respect with whole of my heart. WHATEVER HAPPENS.
I’m on a medication that makes it super hard for me to cry. But boy did I shed tears watching this.
@Whovian Hireath I'm better! Still on the meds but improving a little every day. Thanks and hope you're well too!
I... did not know Ellen was such a good dancer. I have no idea if she’s good in technique or whatever, but I also don’t care because this is just beautiful and these two need to be protected.
Hey if youre still there id like to inform you that they go by Elliot now! :)
This is beautiful. Love is beautiful
Damn I teared up 🥺 beautiful!
2:58 i love this part so much, for me, represents when you love someone but deny it to yourself because you're too afraid
Aw yes Emma went back and changed the name ❤❤
This is heart wrenching, beautiful, inspiring,and thought provoking.
Beautiful. Elliott is so talented. I know his girl is a choreographer and I expect it from her. Such a beautiful piece.
So I just learned of this union today, and I have to say is without a doubt one of the most beautiful things happening in the universe. Congrats you two. My wife and I are local (to upstate NY) and would love to treat you ladies to a home cooked (vegan or vegetarian ) meal.
Sincerely,
Friends you haven't met yet
It's interesting to read the varying opinions. I think I took from it a slightly different perspective from many others.
To me it seemed like it was the internal struggle of accepting oneself throughout life while trying to shake off the expections of a society that merely wants people to be the puppets of perfection, to dance to the same tune of the bland normality, so that life may be lived with the freedom of love.
It begins with a nurturing gesture like at birth, but quickly becomes more of a puppeteer pulling the strings as parents begin to shape teach their child to conform. As the child tries to develop and think for themselves, they deviate from the puppeteers movements, but is quickly smothered in an almost stranglehold that has still retains a loving aspect. The child is carried by friendship and solidarity, but lacks the energy to be themselves. That is until they meet another like-minded person and begin to break free, but remain constrained by one another in the close friendship to the point where it become almost suffocating, because there is an attraction they are trying to fight. But they work at it, while searching for the faults inside themselves to mend their breaking friendship (as with Emma tipping and testing Ellen's whole body and limbs).
Finally the person realises that the secret to freedom is to stand tall and confident, to trust in their belief system and in the person before them. To be unafraid of the judgements and to feel the relief of freedom that comes with the truth. Slowly they begin to learn from their one another to trust and find it within themselves to love. But fear still grips the person, locking them into place as they fight to accept an aspect of themselves that they find it hard to confront. But they are freed by their friend's support and together they build a strong foundation, in which they reveal their mutual strong feelings for one another and finally reach a new level of intimacy.
BananaPizza Wow, I’m going to have to watch this piece a number of times in light of your very intelligent analysis and also what the other commenters are saying. I’ve only watched it once and all I can say, very beautiful! It moves me, but I haven’t attached a story or a meaning to it yet. Only some feelings: passion, longing, reaching. Two souls trying to connect. There... already beginning to attach meaning.