Dancers

          "For the past two years my work has come back full circle to my first love: the
           human  figure. In 1998, I began drawing again from live models and later used
           those drawings  for making finished works on paper and canvas.

During this time, I saw a remarkable performance of Ballet British Columbia at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. Here was the body at its most graceful! My thoughts turned toward other other art forms which are so concerned with and concentrated on technology. Computer art is a good example.

Today, reality can, and often is, manipulated by clever technology so that we may never distinguish between it and illusion. It is a time when nothing is what it seems, when dead actors are brought back to the silver screen, when people and objects appear and disappear in photographs, a time when we cannot, in fact, trust our eyes for truth.

Since we, as a species, have a particular fondness for gadgets, we have embraced with great enthusiasm the technological advances of our age. Exciting  they are indeed, as they enhance and enrich our lives with never before imagined possibilities. However, while we are immersed in small screens, and communicate through machines, our sense of the real world quickly disappears.

Observing the dancers of Ballet B.C. during their long and strenuous rehersals, I understood that dance, as am art form achieved through long years of hard work and exhausting training, was truly a last frontier, reached without technology. Dance is the real thing, pure human creation.

This group of mixed media works is based on photographs taken during rehersals for "The Schubert". The dancing figures, drawn in charcoal and pastels over a painted spackled surface, are as ephemeral as the performance itself, capturing for the viewer a sense of fleeting grace and beauty.

I want to thank John Alleyne, choreographer and director of Ballet BC and Richard Forzley, publicist, for kindly giving me this opportunity for a glimpse into the creative world of dance."

Pnina Granirer
Sept. 26th, 2000

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