Photo by Beatriz Heredia © 2011
L’ennéagramme A 451 Production Year of production: 2011 Genre: Video dance Runtime: 15:00 minutes Format: HD 1920 /Widescreen/ Colour Director and producer: Jonathan Bellés Art director and producer: Beatriz Heredia Choreography: Sheila Toledo Original music: Raquel Heredia
The images will stimulate your thinking, the dance will excite your instincts and music will awake your feeling.
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ennéagramme (The Ennegram) is a dance video created in 2011 by the Spanish visual artists Beatriz Heredia and Jonathan Bellés. The Enneagram of the personality or simply the Enneagram, inspired this dance video. It is an ancient knowledge from Central Asia and represents a model of human personality through nine interconnected types of personalities. The theory says that these nine types of personality are at the roots of the human race. The personalities are clustered in three big groups: the mental, the instinct and the emotional. In ancient times, the Enneagram had been performed as a live dance, so Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia wanted to take up this original concept and create a dance video, representing the three personalities. Their main goal was to transmit through dance the basic systems that rule the human being. First of all, they contacted the choreographer Sheila Toledo, who developed with them the three dances.
The first dance, based on the “mental type”, was created like a classical dance, similar to a classical ballet with traditional forms, a formal style and composed following classical traditions. According to the Enneagram, the “mental type” is a perfectionist, intellectual and rational person. Raquel Heredia is the composer of this dance video and created an original music according to these ideas. She plays a grand piano theme based on classical roles. The second dance is about the “instinct type”. As the name says, this kind of personality is normally full of energy and passion. This is why Toledo creates a contemporary dance based on a Pina Bausch style. We can appreciate in this part a blend of different movements and sounds, and the prominent use of different sceneries, (here we used a cage). Of course, the music changes completely. We have a violin theme, directed by Raquel Heredia and performed by Miguel Ángel Navarro. This personality is shrill and impulsive, so the music reminds us on that. The dance and the music are in a contemporary style as well. The prevailing colour in the scenery is red. L’ennéagramme © 2011. All rights reserved
Finally, the third dance is based on the “emotional type”. It means people who base their life on emotions, or people who are “living in the past”. For this theory, we create an abstract dance. A dance based on passion and emotions. Based on the Bauhaus dances, Toledo brings us simple gestures and dramatic expressions, as she is playing with her sobbing and crying. The main colour is of the scenery is blue. Regarding the music, the composer plays again the grand piano and creates a new piece about feelings. Corresponding to the dance style, the music is of abstract nature. In a nutshell, Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia present an unique dance video based on the types of personality through three different dance styles: classical, contemporary and abstract dance. The video expresses the most powerful and common feelings of the human race. Play video dance Unlisted video
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