Throughout all of Ursula Mayer's film and video works there is a thematic conjunction, as part of her continued interest in the historical avant-garde she explores modernist choreographic composition presenting a series of re-worked photographs by Dora Kallmus (Madame) d'Ora of the 'Mary Wigman Dance Company'. These studies visually describe Wigman's particular philosophy. In her own words she often refers to 'air pressing down on the limbs to create gesture, and space pushing the body into directional changes'. These photographs emphasise the somber and weighted performances which were often undertaken in silence or to minimal percussion scores.
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