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Sometimes Choreography Involves Goalkeeping**

posted by Jason Kottke Dec 15, 2020

I've featured the work of choreographer Yoann Bourgeois on kottke.org before — his work gets performers moving on rotating stages and dropping onto trampolines. A 2019 performance choreographed by Bourgeois based on an unfinished Mozart piece sort of combines his previous performances, with dancers dropping into a slippery ramp that slides them onto a rotating platform.

As you might expect, getting gravity and centripetal force to play well together requires some experimentation — Bourgeois recently shared a rehearsal blooper where he catches one of his performers before they go whizzing off the stage into the orchestra.

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You can watch more behind-the-scenes footage of this performance in this video:

** Goalkeeping definitely involves choreography.