SF Ballet Principal Dancer, Damian Smith evokes his Aboriginal roots with "Arrellah" at San Jose Museum of Art - Oct 2 - Feb 22 Opening Night & Artists' Reception Oct 8 "Spratt's painting made me feel lost in a familiar place." Damian Smith, a celebrated principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, is one of ten "interveners" invited to create a response to other works of art in the exhibition, in their chosen medium. Choosing Grenholm, a painting by the late California artist, Frederrick Spratt, Smith commented, "I immediately saw a desert landscape of open space, vast and isolated. Spratt's love of color and his passing brought to mind the colors of my aboriginal heritage and my own father's death. As a native Australian, Spratt's landscape gave me a sense of connection and familiarity. A place I might visit in a dream." Entitled Arrellah, the Aboriginal word for the "dancing ground", Smith has developed a multi-media art installation involving dance, painting, music and film and incorporating the shapes and symbols from the Aboriginal language -- white body paint, suggesting the dance takes place in a spiritual portal, and red paint for the color of the Australian landscape. |
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