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Dancers move in perpetuity in downtown window
The “Dance in the Time of Coronavirus” public performance series is coming to a close, but one of choreographer Andee Scott’s more ambitious movement pieces lives on – over and over again – in a 1st Avenue South storefront.
Scott’s “Constellations,” performed by different dancers Aug. 8 in each of the five American time zones, was videotaped. Short, looped videos of the each performance are on display in the two front windows of thestudio@620, the theater and art space at 620 1st Avenue S.
Viewed on each of the nine screens, it’s as if “Constellations” is a continuing dance, with one performer connecting to the next.
Which, Scott told the Catalyst early in the month, was precisely the point, and why the piece is called “Constellations.”
“I thought well, the stars move across the sky,” she said. “I love things that are kind of marking space as the globe moves underneath them. It seems like a very romantic idea to me. And it honors where each of us live – we’re not all trying to be the same, we’re taking a step along this journey when it’s our time.
“Then it becomes this really beautiful idea: Somehow the dance is moving across the county. Somehow, the dance itself is traveling through space, if you will.”
The video installation will play 24/7 through mid-September.
“Dance in the Time of Coronavirus” was conceived by Scott, a dance instructor at the University of South Florida, and University of Tampa dance instructor Amanda Sieradski. The series of socially-distanced dance performances began in early June and has since covered both sides of the bay.
The series ends Saturday with the 11 a.m. performance of “(e)Volution,” a piece by Sieradski, at Seaplane Basin Park and Davis Islands Trail in Tampa.
