Moving bodies as art: Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps playing music from Final Fantasy
I have a broad idea of what constitutes art. I include not only the fine arts--sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, and the like--and more crafty arts--ceramics, textiles, fashion, and jewelry making, for example--but also the performing arts, particularly dance and music, and any other art form that tells a story, especially cinema and its variations, including television and video games. It should have come as no surprise that when I started posting about art this month, I posted drawings made to move, accompanied by music--in other words, fine arts as performance. Who says I don't have a theme?
That said, here is a video that shows what happens when several of my favorite art forms intersect. I present to you the 2005 Blue Stars, who are doing a field show (a very odd form of dance set to music that the dancers play themselves, if you want to think of it that way) to music from video games. Repertoire includes The Man With the Machine Gun (Final Fantasy VIII), Liberi Fatali (Final Fantasy VIII), Isn't It Beautiful? (Final Fantasy X), and Don't Be Afraid (Final Fantasy VIII). Sorry, no One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII.
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