Best Dance Video Grupo Corpo

0 CommentsSunday • January 16, 2011 • by Imei

With all the videos there are on Youtube, it is impossible to see everything I want, nor to keep up with the enormous volume of clips even in a singular genre. But after watching a performance of Grupo Corpo, “Mortal Loucura” (Mortal Madness”, 2005), I was left speechless, in tears, and applauding for what I believe is the most beautiful, inspiring, and extraordinary dance video I’ve seen to this day.

Founded in 1975, Grupo Corpo is a Brazilian dance company acclaimed by critics and internationally known as a company pressing the audience’s understanding of ballet and modern dance. The videotography captures everything, including the sound of the dancer’s bodies slapping the floor, and making contact with thighs. It is a visceral delight.

Don’t be surprised if you find yourself holding your breath, breathing deeply at other moments, and basking in the tender moments of this dance:

As a psychotherapist by day, my mind pings like a pinball through the hundreds of stories of relationships, love, loss, anger, aggression, longing, and obsession that permeates Mortal Loucura, and shows up in a myriad of facets in my client’s lives. HT to Larry Benjamin for sending me the link to this video via Facebook.

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