Episodes

8 episodes in this season

Short Video Artworks

28 min

Video Dance

28 min

Smothering Dreams

28 min

Comedy Video

28 min

Tongues

28 min

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Summer Dances

28 min

A Personal History of the American Theatre

28 min

Artist's Music Videos

28 min

Alive from Off Center

TV Series

198528m8.0

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Summer Dances

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Aug 5, 1985

"Summer" is the theme of the dances, which are performed outdoors. Inspired by the teenage life in a working-class neighborhood, the first dance, "You Little Wild Heart" by Marta Renzi, is performed to music by Bruce Springsteen in an actual suburban neighborhood. In the second dance, "District 1" by Rudy Perez, Boston's City Hall Plaza is transformed into a kind of summer playground. In "George's House" by Dan Wagoner, a group of young women play "hide-and-seek" by popping their heads in and out of the doors and windows of a cabin to the rhythm of the country music accompaniment. In "Secret of the Waterfall" by Charles Atlas and Douglas Dunn, performers move to the phrases and words of a poem, which appear on screen as part of the visual composition. The final piece, "From An Island Summer" by Atlas and Karole Armitage, follows a group of dancers through Coney Island from the boardwalk to the amusement park, as passersby react with surprise.

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Alive from Off Center

TV Series

198528m8.0

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Summer Dances

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Aug 5, 1985

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