Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States
This abstract work featuring three dancers interacting with large screens as well as each other. Costuming and color play an integral role in this piece, part of Shirley Clarke’s FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME.
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Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Trans
Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1978 • United States
A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film by director Shirley Clarke, part of her FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME project.
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Seven Women of Different Ages
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1978 • Poland
Krzysztof Kieślowski made more than twenty documentaries, including this wryly observed short, which profiles seven ballet dancers, one for each day of the week. From a fledgling student to a star ballerina in her prime to an older dancer now cast...
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Cake Walk
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States
This video documents “Cake Walk,” an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant’s pioneering New York gallery Just Above Midtown. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance that develo...
