This video is a masterful offering. It expands on the basic
premise of music and gesture, bringing to life an artist's love of color and the visual
image. The use of windows for the dancers is veritably unusual and mysterious. The music
is deeply moving.
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Entertaining,
imagistic; uses dance images as raw material
Reviewer:
Doug vanderHoof (dvand@modern-media.com) from Seattle
September 26, 1999
You can see Silas' experience as choreographer/dancer and
filmmaker. He uses classical and modern treatments of ballet vocabulary as the raw
material for a visual entertainment. Brief samples of his choreography are atomized and
sometimes abstacted in shifting video frames that emphasize gesture, color, and formality
while remembering the muscle and flesh that are the basis of dance. My only cavil is that
I want to see more movement, more pretty pictures and a little lighter touch in
post-production. He really knows how to make beauty with a video camera. Let that shine!
The music and dance both are well recorded. Good for students and balletomanes as well as
video art fans.
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You've never seen anything like this before
Reviewer: A
viewer from Bellingham, Washington September 23, 1999
Godfrey Silas creates a visual cornucopia of color, form and motion in
this extraordinary exploration into the subtle and powerful dimensions of ballet in
action. He utilizes daring concepts of design and juxtaposition to highlight and emphasize
the meaning of the dance and the expression of the dancer. Highly recommended for lovers
of beauty and creativity of all kinds.
A
celebration of imagery, drama,music and dance!
Reviewer:
from Washington DC,United States August 29, 1999
THIS VIDEO PRESENTATION,UNIQUE IN CHARACTER, IS A CELEBRATION
OF MUSIC, DANCE, IMAGERY AND DRAMA. REPLETE WITH LAYERS OF LIGHT, COLOUR AND GESTURE, THIS
WORK PENETRATES THE IMAGINAL DIMENSIONS. HERE, THE POWER OF GESTURE IS CAPTURED AND
DESCRIBED WITH EXACTING FIDELITY. TEMPERAMENTS IN MOTION IS A LUCID ENCOUNTER. LOVERS OF
BEAUTY IN IMAGERY, MUSIC AND DANCE WILL DELIGHT IN THIS MULTI-MEDIA. THE FINE ELEMENTS OF
STYLISTIC ARCHITECTURE, CINEMATOGRAPHY, MUSIC PICTORIALIZATION AND DANCE DRAMA ALL FIND
SEAMLESS CONVERGENCE IN TEMPERAMENTS IN MOTION. Featuring the music of
MOZART,BEETHOVEN,VIVALDI, CHOPIN,MENDELSSOHN and others.
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Godfrey
Silas deserves high marks for pure artistry.
Reviewer:
A viewer from Seattle, Washington August 29, 1999
The choreography, and videographic genius of Godfey Silas
awakens us to the beauty of classical form with color, light, sound and motion. Silas
evokes musical expression, and in doing so, teaches us about music. Highly recommended for
modern day aficionados and students of classical music. Godfrey Silas deserves high marks
for pure artistry.
George Bozarth, Ph.D. Musicologist, Professor of Music History and
Appreciation, University of Washington. Author of The Brahms-Keller Correspondence.
Superb
Creative Art 