Still from Viewpoints: Body Language featuring dancer Francesca Harper and The Vine by Harriet Frishmuth at the Met Museum.
In the Met’s series Viewpoints: Body Language, experts and rising stars interpret the sculpted body through twenty different works from assorted departments. Francesca Harper, dancer and choreographer, interacts with The Vine by Harriet W. Frishmuth in one of them. Watch the performance here.
The Vine was created after dancer Desha Delteil. Representations of dance became a popularity in the earlier twentieth century following the First World War, many of them inspired by Duncan, Fuller and Pavlova. We invite you to look at this series of contemporary perspectives on anatomy where emotion resurfaces from the vibrant artworks displayed at the Met.
“[movement] is a bit of what was and a bit of what is to be…” -Harriet Frishmuth, sculptor of The Vine