| dc.description.abstract | Visual art is one of the most iconic and widespread forms of art in the world. However, some may claim that it is losing its relevance and place in the current art scene due to technology and instant gratification courtesy of the internet. We hope to translate iconic and propagandist artwork from the time period of the Space Race, into a form that we most closely understand and may be more relevant for a wider audience through dance. We look forward to incorporating other artists in this project and, as a team, produce artwork from a piece of choreography and create a new work ourselves based on an influential painting from this era to translate meaning, context, and feeling. There are so many opportunities for collaboration between dancers, painters, and historians. By bringing together paintings, photographs, and drawings, which many consider to be stagnant and two dimensional, and dance, which has live bodies and constant movement, history and art can be brought to life in a new way. By using artwork from this era as our inspiration, we are able to not only express the history of the era, but convey the feelings and emotions this event had on various cultures during that time. In doing this, we can allow audience members to immerse themselves into the context of this historical era that they may otherwise never understand. This would revitalize both mediums of art and merge the two art audiences and build a new bridge between artists and historians. | en |
