Grand Etude or Playing Dead

a screendance in collaboration with Betsy Brandt

 
Elizabeth Johnson and Sara Hook, photo by Besty Brandt.jpg
Sara Hook-photo by Betsy Brandt.jpg

Like much of Hook’s work, Grand Etude or Playing Dead, a Dance for Camera made with dramaturge Betsy Brandt, tackles bravery of performance, the act of performance itself, and the hyper vivid character of the performers.  It is part document and part poetic rendering of some of Hook’s main tenets as a teacher which include sensualizing technique and holding insane amounts of detail that transform the task of performance into hyperbolic meditations on the self that border on camp.

 

For more info on Sara’s work in the classroom, click here.