(30 min film, large file size, please allow up to 15 minutes for download)
ART. Not a person's first name.
ART is. Not a person's first name.
Not a person's first name ART is.
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
Venice, Italy (28-31 July 2009)
The Kavouras/Tracy Project
Professors Louis Kavouras and Robert Tracy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Author: Professor Robert Tracy , University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Choreography and Film: Professor Louis Kavouras , University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Additional Filming: Matthew Novak and Cameron White , Las Vegas Filmmakers
Duet: Jason Hortin and Marko Westwood
The Kavouras/Tracy Project
Professors Kavouras and Tracy will explore, through a sustained interdisciplinary collaboration involving the formal elements of movement, sight, sound and text, a number of contemporary motifs affecting artistic expression in this the first decade of the Twenty-first Century. The poetic beauty of language (stream of consciousness text) and choreography (the primal beauty of physical movement) will carry the burden of an extended narrative, thereby enabling Kavouras and Tracy to consciously chose to open a principle door of signification and pass into an existential arena where the accumulated language of aesthetic fermentations have been brewing and resonating for some time. This collaboration began with the common recognition by Kavouras and Tracy that the contemporary learning process at universities and colleges has been transformed and remade by students who demand greater interactivity and the right to discover for themselves. The Kavouras/Tracy Project then, is a vast canvas that moves beyond the four defining walls of a university classroom in favor of an engaging and changing perspective that, we hope, reshapes and integrates “the examined life” out of the shadows and into the light where something is possible, where something that matters materializes. And throughout this collaborative process, Andy Warhol's famous line, “Art is not a person's first name”, resonated in our ears and our consciousness as we explored the areas of overlap between Art, Dance, Film, Music and Theatre. We can't help it…we have to look.
