A new feature of this blog is that each week I am going to point you toward something delicious. This week it is the strandbeest of Dutch artist Theo Jansen. Many of you probably know about him, but when I saw this I thought, “This is a different kind of horse!” A windhorse. And of course I wanted to dance with it.
The beest has a sophisticated anatomy with muscles and even a stomach, with names like Animaris Percipiere! There is even a rhinoceros beest.
What I love about horse dancing is that it is unpredictable. I imagine that the strandbeest on a good windy day would give us a lot of improvisation opportunities. And that a group of about 20 dancers would create a pretty interesting beest themselves!
Get the picture?