Dance Coyote

With the unique art form of the DanceCoyote, Narinder Dogra brings to our awareness the ongoing dance of the land - the primal, eternal motion present in drifting continents, in sliding glaciers, in shifting dunes. Against a backdrop of desert sands or eroding rock formations, his film records the brief moment of a dancer's whirling step. Rhythm and flow resonate both in the choreographic lines of the ballerina and in the earth's layers of sedimentary deposits. Since the Big Bang...
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With the unique art form of the DanceCoyote, Narinder Dogra brings to our awareness the ongoing dance of the land - the primal, eternal motion present in drifting continents, in sliding glaciers, in shifting dunes. Against a backdrop of desert sands or eroding rock formations, his film records the brief moment of a dancer's whirling step. Rhythm and flow resonate both in the choreographic lines of the ballerina and in the earth's layers of sedimentary deposits. Since the Big Bang explosion, the forces of nature have propelled the endless shifting of soil and rock. I envision the earth as an aged, slow-motion dancer. She twirls, drifts, wobbles on her axis, heaves up and down, ebbs and flows, circling in her eternal cosmic dance. Narinder's ballet dancers dramatize the serpentine grooves of a canyon's contours. In return, the majesty and monumentality of the American wilderness accentuate the ballerina's fragility, their fleeting beauty. Together, the rhythmic and the still, the ephemeral and enduring, the fragile and unyielding- all intersect in Narinder Dogra's work, struck here and there by a glow of sunlight as if to remind us that the Dance Coyote is viewed primarily within our mind's eye. My images may appear static, as if frozen in time- but look again, and you may envision the swirling dance of the spheres. In 1/250th of a second, the camera captures a sense of the rhythms set in motion 200 million years ago, before dinosaurs, not dancers, walked these lands.