Douglas Dunn
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Rubble Dance
1991-09-01
Rubble Dance
Overview: A film-dance, shot on 16mm film in Long Island City, Queens, NY.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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The Myth of Modern Dance
1990-03-30
The Myth of Modern Dance
Overview: Collaborating with choreographer Douglas Dunn, Atlas uses anthropological text, satirical movement, and vividly colored chroma-keyed backgrounds in an episodic, often humorous look at the evolution of modern dance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Secret of the Waterfall
1983-01-01
Secret of the Waterfall
Overview: The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed Bye. Dunn's athletic choreography is performed to the rhythms, cadences, and associative meanings of the poets' "cascade of words," which function as music. Atlas introduces narrative references, ironically staging the dance in unexpected locations, including domestic interiors and vehicles. In a self-referential deconstruction that punctures the theatrical illusion, the poets are seen reading their texts and interacting as self-conscious performers within the dance. Atlas and his collaborators intersect the language of words with the language of the body.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980-10-01
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Overview: Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of dance and the evolution of their own work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances, and during interviews, the film is a unique primary source. The artistic roots of these seven artists can be found in Martha Graham's concern with modern life as a subject for dance and in Merce Cunningham's emphasis on the nature of movement. In the 1960s, the interaction of art forms generated choreographic innovations. Especially influential was John Cage, whose radical ideas served as a point of departure for much of the new choreography. Each of the choreographers in Making Dances draws inspiration from the Graham/Cunningham tradition, yet each makes a highly distinctive statement. Structure, movement in non-fictive time and space, and the nature of movement itself are recurring themes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Mayonnaise #1
1973-01-01
Mayonnaise #1
Overview: A silent film featuring Charles Atlas' frequent collaborator, choreographer Douglas Dunn, improvising from a painting by Édouard Manet.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Nevada
1974-01-01
Nevada
Overview: Douglas Dunn performs a series of movements with a board found randomly in the street and whose shape is reminiscent of the state of Nevada.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Floor
1974-01-01
Floor
Overview: "For 'Floor' I was interested in the limits of the frame and the idea of what was “in” and what was “out” and working all the way to the edge. So I set up a particular frame that would allow for a play between flatness and depth, between representations of a partial body and a full body. Douglas’s task was to do the same sequence of movement both forward and backwards in time." - Charles Atlas
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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