THE BLACK QUESTION

TREVAN'S SPECTER HAUNTS FLORIDA.

NOVEMBER 3, 2013
ON W 125TH AV , HARLEM IS ANGRY


                                 

IDA

ISABELLA HARRITZ SORENSEN

FALL DANCE 

Isabella Sorensen

SUNDAY, CENTRAL PARK

NOVEMBER 3, 13 

Not only fallen leaves  worth to be watched in  Harlem Central Park .

Imagine a golden backdrop and a lake nearby. At a glance, on this November Sunday while coolness is being settled, such a landscape seems to welcome or worship human beings and that time, a woman still in her early twenties.  Ms Isabella Sorensen could not choose a better place to her rehearsal or special spare time.  As her friend Tania Palomeque put it, photography tries to freeze good memories for the  future or eternity.

There were some ducks sliding silently in the waters. As silently  as Isabella’s body lifting up higher and higher. Her arms are stretching skyward. When she lowers her body, it’s for pushing forward her chest and  breast in a horizontal way. What a flexibility! What an easiness ! only, people said, felines get so much suppleness. Ms Sorensen seems to inherit something from wilderness life without saying noting about  her slender body. Dressed only with a off white bath suit, Isabella’s dance is framing some part of space.

I’ve been watching her desire to fly and her arm lifting figure like people do somewhere when worshiping their gods. Dancing is the way the body meditates, Maya Deren, the Russian –born  filmmaker, said in her beautiful book: the Divine Horsemen. Dancing  has some silent voice on its own. It’s what I was staring at as Ms Sorensen, a Danish woman, was dancing her youth in the Central  Park at Harlem, at 110^th  Ave.  A passerby  has been shooting a picture at her.

Born in 1992 at Skive, Denmark, Ms Sorensen told us she has been dancing at 3 in the Danish ballroom. Later on, she became a professional dancer as she was turning fifteen. Now, she is a student at Ailey School in NY. She loves travelling and  living in other cultures with other peoples. That’s the best way to live up her dreams and dancing.

Ms Sorensen’s close friend, the already famous and Spanish-born photograph, Tania Palomeque Guirao, had been taking shots of her.

Tania Palomeque Guiirao