Week 6 - Artist - Camille & Sarah Elgart

Camille - 

She is a French singer, songwriter, and occasional actress, but more known for her music. Labels she's worked with include Virgin Records and EMI, along with Nouvelle Vague and MaJiKer. Listening to her album Le Fil, something caught my attention right off the back, which was the music in the background were not instruments but rather humans. When I say humans, you could hear snaps, hums, beat noise, and others. She believes that everyone has a different energy that can be channeled through their voice, these energies may clash. But she likes the challenge of working with things that are not meant to fit in normal society. She considers that patchwork, where you analyze the areas where something can belong versus where it does not. She believes that society is also a form of patchwork, where certain things can succeed and others might not. Through song producing and writing she tells stories, by using different tones and actions. Her content and style are out of the normal because she uses humans as the instrument and makes it work. 

Sarah Elgart - 

She is an award-winning choreographer, director, and producer.  Sarah Elgart has worked extensively in communities for many years, both teaching and creating dance-based and video works with populations such as maximum-security female inmates, children confronting critical illness, and at-risk teenagers. She tries to get her audience involved in her work. Her work includes movements most will not consider to choreographer but they are, the setting add a different emphasis on the work. Her style was experimenting with dance and film in forms that defy gravity and the law of physics. I think her style is open minded and has no rules. The meaning of each work if different but I think overall it shows that beauty is in the eyes of the viewer and meaning can be different for each person based on personal experience. 

I think there is a flow in both of their work, as for Camille she makes the strong voices flow in the background, and as for Sarah she makes her dances flow in with unusual areas. I would say Sarah would be in her zone when she's coming up with the choreographer and her dancers would be in the zone when practicing and performing. Camille would be in the zone when she has to decide what sound needs to be added or moved or even taken out.  Although they are different they both share something in common which is making art out of what others would never even consider.  A connection between my automatic drawing would be with Sarah's dances because the experience I went through made it my art rather than use something as a inspiration.