只有旅行和藝術可以自己決定

Pina Bausch離開了，想不到07年的熱情馬祖卡是我第一次也是最後一次看到Pina Bausch。回頭看了當初的觀後感，我寫著，「整場演出最喜歡的部份就是看到Pina Bausch本人。…..那時我有一種once in a life time的感覺，不知未來何時還會看到Pina Bausch的演出和她本人。」看來當初的感覺是真實的，不論喜不喜歡演出本身，我卻從未後悔去看熱情馬祖卡。

I don't belong to the Michael Jackson world, but I have to admit that he indeed brought a lot of amazing performance experiences to the world. He wrote quite some great songs, but normally I was distracted from his fancy steps and body movements. For one of his hits Billie Jean, not until I heard Veloso singing it with only guitar and simple percussion, I didn't realize the song was talking about something that could be seen as a serious social issue(due to my poor English to understand Michael Jackson's screaming and accent of singing). Without other entertaining "side effects", Billie Jean still has its right to be one of the hits of the decades.

Caetano Veloso sings Billie Jean. The original dancing music becomes very sentimental and somehow confessing.

西班牙國家現代舞團納丘杜亞托慾望之翼 (CND & Nacho Duato: ALAS)
國家戲劇院
2009/3/7 7:30pm

Duato第一次讓我驚豔是那支他為ABT三位男舞者編的Remansos，多年前他率CND來台演出的記憶不知為何已經所剩無幾，所以這次特別期待他在台北國際藝術節演出的作品慾望之翼(ALAS)，親自登台獨舞的這個號召尤其吸引人。

This "Paloma" song won so many people's tears from Almodovar's film "Hable Con Ella/Talk to her". Brazilian musician Caeteno Veloso sings with guitar and cello in a breezy evening.

El Yiyo這場演出和演後座談格外引發我思索兩件事：表現 (expressing)和到位(arrived)。

Expressing

舞蹈無非要透過身體去訴說一個人內心的狀態、想法與意念，或許去引發觀眾產生某種狀態、想法與意念。它的藝術和風格包含了一個人肢體、情感和智力等面向，就如同Buffon著名的定義「風格就是一個人本身。」（Style is the man himself），舞蹈因此流洩而出，充塞在舞者和觀眾中的精神與熱情。

El Yiyo年紀小，即便有技巧上的天賦，以有限的歷練，要表達想法、傳達情緒確實難度高。那麼El Yiyo，你倒底想說什麼？這或許是比身體能力或左右腦強度都更重要的事。

"Granada" is a popular Mexican song written by the composer Agustín Lara, about Granada, one of the beautiful Spanish cities.

Placido Domigo is in my opinion the best interpreter of Granada. As he said in the interview, he felt “himself” in the song, given the duo-originality – Mexico and Spain. He is born in Spain but grows up in Mexico. So in his singing, one finds the perfect but natural combination of passion for Spain and proficiency of demonstrating Mexican aura.

El Yiyo
新舞風2009
6/6 8pm
新舞台

自認對Flamenco了解很有限---間歇性沉迷Flamenco音樂和舞蹈，十堂基礎課---就這樣。Flamenco永遠都只是我能欣賞但自己絕沒機會成事的藝術形式風格。

這場稱為新佛朗明哥世代的演出，我真的是因為林懷民那篇文章所留下的印象去看的。

看完表演後，重點是什麼？