LaLaLa Human Steps – Velazquez’s Little Museum 2/6

This video is part 2/6 of the film featuring Eduard Lock’s choreography in Velazquez’s Little Museum. This video includes two duets danced by dancers from LaLaLa Human Steps. Louise Le Cavalier dances in both but I don’t know the names of the other two dancers.

This video shows some of my favorite scenes in the film. This section shows the young woman, danced by Louise Le Cavalier, entering the museum where we see some of Velazquez’s paintings hanging on the walls. One of the paintings the woman touches is wet with water, foreshadowing the second duet.

The young woman walks through empty and silent rooms (you can hear the feet echoing in the silence) and she meets the first character with whom she will dance with. Afterwards, they leave the space and go up some stairs into another room which shifts and she falls into water. As she falls she passes the “wet” painting she touched earlier, showing a young woman lying on a couch. The woman in the painting comes out of the picture and together they swim to a place where they dance a duet in a pool of water.

The sequences in this section are beautifully filmed featuring the frame motif; frames framing pictures, doorways framing pictures, people and frames of different shapes and sizes. I especially enjoy the mystique that is set up in the beginning sequences with the mysteriously empty rooms, ghost like characters that appear and leave and an eerie silence that amplifies the footsteps.

The whole film itself is a wonderful piece of art, with beautiful shots, varied frame motifs and sounds creating mysterious spaces not to mention some spectacular dance images.

I cued up the video near the beginning of the dance sequences being featured here, and have provided a link to complete version of Part 2 by clicking in the Smaller Image below.

For added interest, I have also provided a second link to an interview with Louise Le Cavalier titled “INTERVIEW” (below). She is quite different from the way she dances. She is now in her fifties and is still dancing, which is wonderful and so inspiring!

I hope you enjoy and SHARE the dance scenes too!