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"Feature length documentary about the emerging art of contemporary pole dance and how it evolved from its origins in strip-clubs into a movement of feminine empowerment and self-expression. ... The film follows Jessica Anderson-Gwin, a trained hip-hop and modern dancer with a unique vision of blending modern dance with aerial pole fitness. She forms the first ever contemporary pole dance company, Jagged, and with her passionate recruits pioneers a...
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Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones returns to the stage at the center of a new work for his renowned company. Inspired by legendary artist and composer John Cage's Indeterminacy, a performance of seventy one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Jones creates a collage of dance, music, and seventy of his own short stories, arranged anew for each performance by chance procedure. In Story/Time, Jones fuses the age-old art of storytelling...
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"In this well-illustrated work, Pauline Koner "traces the course" of her remarkable career from her days as a student of Michel Fokine in the 1920s, through further studies with Angel Cansino and the brilliantly influential Michio Ito, to a period as a dance soloist before World War II that make her reputation. After the war she entered a productive collaboration with Doris Humphrey, and then began the epochal performances with Jose Limon. She continued...
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This two-part series focuses on Brooklyn based choreographer/director Martha Bowers and her site-specific performance work. In a revealing interview Bowers traces the origins & development of her work and her interest in integrating choreography with social activism as she created panoramic site specific works that featured high levels of community participation. Included are excerpts from On The Waterfront (1993), Blue Train (1998), Safe Harbor (1998),...
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In the second part of this two-part series on Brooklyn based choreographer/director Martha Bowers the artist continues to elaborate on how her site-specific works are realized and what artistic and social concerns are involved. Martha Bowers' interest in integrating choreography with social activism has resulted in the creation of numerous, panoramic site-specific works that feature high levels of community participation. Included in this program...
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Choreographer Sally Silvers has been creating wildly inventive post modern dance for over 20 years. She is noted for a movement vocabulary that is both quirky and highly inventive. This two part series focuses on Silvers' Strike Me Lightning a group work that looks at the physical behavior of nuns and cyborgs. Recorded at P.S. 122 in New York City in February 2002, the program includes excerpts from Part 1 of Strike Me Lightning - the "nun" section....
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German Lineage In Modern Dance: Solos by Wigman, Hoyer, Holm, Nikolais, Louis celebrates the legacy of modern dance that started in Germany before World War I and expanded into new dimensions in the United States in the late 20th century. The influence of German Expression Dance, or Ausdruckstanz, has spanned decades and spread to diverse areas globally. Works of each choreographer are highlighted through solos, narration and original photographs....
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What is it like to live with a life-threatening illness? Can fear, anger, and joy be translated into movement? In this program, journalist Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly acclaimed dance, "Still/Here." At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths....
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