At its best, a choreographic work, engages the senses and the mind in the same way nature does.
Watching a choreographed dance work, should feel like being in the middle of the ocean. Or inside a forest. Or on the top of a mountain. It should have similar properties and as a consequence, allow for a similar sensorial, emotional, spiritual and physical experience.
That being said, it should avoid being ‘effect based’ and strive to have an inner structural logic. The effects, in whichever way we might perceive them, that are produced by natural phenomenas, are always an unintentional byproduct.
Many choreographic works, tend to produce a nature-like visual effect intentionally. It might look the same, but it’s as far as possible from what a natural phenomena is actually.
The road that should be taken, is the long one. The research, is about how to create kinetic structural events, that as a byproduct, produce an effect, which in its essence, is un intentional.
