“Let’s not fight I’m tired can’t we just sleep tonight
Don’t Turn away it’s just there’s nothing left here to say
Turn around I know we’re lost but soon we’ll be found”
 
There are so many different things that can be showed with a few minutes-long video and there are also different expressions of the language you can play with…
…so what Claire Carré puts in scene is not only an aesthetic ballet, but a performance that combines different types of language: the language of music, the video one’s and the American Sign Language (ASL), that is not a simple alternative to the lyrics but it’s true protagonist of the video.
 
Beauty and communication together.
 
The Australian pop songwriter Sia Furler magnetically captures the attention with her emotional movements, natural and strong at the same time in a performance that Carré shows in 3 acts: 3 ways to show the ASL.
 
The first act is like a theatrical dance where Sia and dancers’ dramatic interpretation, both with hands and faces, give us a strong expression of lyrics with the ASL.
In the second one Sia’s shadow lives in a world created by puppets shadows: a stronge way to create a link between signs and their meaning: apart from the grass, everything was created by puppeteer Ken Berman, who has performed with his hands the whole world, from trees to animals; all Berman’s work is put together in postproduction by Carré.
In the last act, Carré brings Sia and her performance in a dream made by UV, played with the light’s colors and painted with the trailing effect of the hands, Carré says: “the UV section is four-dimensional and play with the shapes of the signs in time and space and the extension of the signs as expressive gestures into the realm of dance”
 
Sia wakes up from this intense world, pleased to have expressed herself.

Sia – Soon We’ll Be Found

Artist: Sia
Direction:
Claire Carré
Techniques:
Motion Pictures, American Sign Language
What's Cool:
An artistic ASL's dance
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September 18th, 2012


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