Explain how David Fernandez uses the ideas of Vitruvius in his dance Vitruvian Man
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Vitruvian Man, performed in 2011 by Chase Finlay, Ask la Cour, and Amar Ramasar, all principal dancers in the New York City Ballet, is based on Leonardo’s famous drawing. It opens with all three dancers standing directly behind one another, their arms extended out from their bodies, as if they were one single, multi-limbed Vitruvian Man. Bare-chested, the dancers explode from Leonardo’s circle and square, their arms still extended, into a dance rife with the exuberant leaps and turns of the likes of Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The music is the first movement of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins’s 1996 Palladio suite, inspired by the sixteenth-century Venetian architect Andrea Palladio, whose designs for private villas in the Venetian Terraferma inspired Jenkins’s suite—and were themselves inspired by Vitruvius. The floor plan of the Villa La Rotonda could, quite apparently, fit into Leonardo’s circle and square. Leonardo, Palladio, and now Fernandez in his dance and Jenkins in his score all seek the same end—to reach the High Renaissance ideal of equilibrium and harmony.
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