Slow Represents
Benjamin Zellmer Bellas
ON THE FIRST DAY OF FALL TWO HELICOPTERS PERFORM THE TERPSICHORE VARIATION, APOLLO VARIATION, AND PAS DE DEUX FROM BALANCHINE’S APOLLO BALLET OVER THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
A new era...
ushered in, with him
and for me, for us, a point from which to turn
a point marks a position in space
the picnic spot... on the farm... seated above the pond...
watching the dragonflies skim the surface
a series of points forms a line
our choreographed movements morning, noon, and night
passing slowly
focused on a blur
six thirty, six fifty, seven thirty, eight twenty, eight thirty, four, four thirty, five, seven, eight thirty, ten thirty...
in typography the point is a period...
the definitive end of the line
and such it is... here... with us...
to be understood through what is to follow by its sustained oneness of tone and feeling
pristine white
like the gown only worn the one day
the first one of oneness
before one plus one equals one, before one and one made one
the shortest distance between two points is a straight line
during one’s meandering commute in the mornings and evenings
and all points in between
two and three , he and I
make due without you
...a reinvention of tradition
[HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO - 24:20]
2012
Artists We've Shown
- Jason Dunda
- Benjamin Zellmer Bellas
- Meg Duguid
- Judith Brotman
- John Henley
- CC Ann Chen
- Andrew Holmquist
- Laura Davis
- Brent Garbowski
- Mican Morgan
- Carol Jackson
- Ryan Michael Pfeiffer
- Ellis von Sternberg
- Steve Reber
- Julie Potratz
- Susannah Papish
- Larry Lee
- Rebecca Walz
- Joe Mault
- Todd Chilton
- Chuck Jones
- Barbara DeGenevieve
- Max Byron Garett
- Michael Hunter
- Mindy Rose Schwartz
- Matt Kayhoe Brett
- Valentina Zamfirescu
- Brad Johns
- Alex Gartelmann
- Dave Richards
- Andreas Fischer
- Vesna Jovanovic
- Susan Kimball
- Tony Balko
- Hyegyeong Choi
- Diego Leclery
- Jessica Hannah
- Molly Shea
- Porous Walker
- Laura Prieto-Velasco
- Catie Olson
- Eileen Rae Walsh
- Matthew Girson
- Jinn Bronwen Lee
- Katy Carolina Collins
- Megan Powell
- George Blaha
- Helmut Heiss
- Mike Olson
- Theodore Horner
- Noël Morical
- Claire Ashley
- Dylan Jones
- Kevin Jennings
- Amaranth Borsuk
- Carron Little
- Danica Favorito
- Allison Wade
- Poy Born
- Vanessa Valliere
- Nancy Lu Rosenheim
- Clayton Merrell
- Carrie Gundersdorf
- Mike Peter Smith
- Charles Fogarty
- Nick Grasso
- Kirk Faber
- Alison Ruttan
- Maggie Haas
- Jonas Sebura
- Orkideh Torabi
- Kate Bowen
- Caroline Allison
- Joseph Brajcki
- Butthole Mammifer
- Sofia Moreno
- Roni Packer
- Tim Schade
- Nick Nes Knowlton
- Shannon Schmidt
- Julie Wills
- Matt Harrison
- unknown
- Rafael E. Vera
- Erin Washington
- Matthew Schlagbaum
- Conor Ekstrom
- Kelly Kaczynski
- Nika Levando
- Helen McElroy
- Karolina Gnatowski
- Darryl Terrell
- Jory Drew
- Allon Lieberman
- Jason Jozwiak
- Daniel Schmid
- Scott Ramon
- Regina Mamou
- Alex Bradley Cohen
- Richard Kooyman