“I’ve always been attracted to people doing the most extreme things” ⚡️ CharlesAtlas
, was created for the Milan exhibition and combines films of women shot on stage while touring with Antony and the Johnsons in 2006 with unused footage of Bowery lip-syncing to Aretha Franklin. Another example of Atlas’ skill for composing and curating that rings just as true when repurposing these previous pieces as it does when live mixing a performance that juggles moving image, musicians and dancers from his laptop.
Charles Atlas: I had no idea. I was just working out how to use the camera and it developed from there. Then, when Merce Cunningham asked me to collaborate with him, I suddenly had to learn how to use video. Neither of us knew what we were doing, so I learnt it all from a book.BP: Did having limited funds and equipment shape your style?
CA: Well, I started out with Merce because I got lucky and have been with his dance company ever since. But I was always in contact with people doing what you might call avant-garde work. I’ve always been attracted to people doing the most extreme things, and that drew me to dancers like Michael Clark, who I first worked with when he was just 20 and no one had heard of him.
BP: But it was through dance that you developed media-dance, your form of filmmaking that merged the two disciplines? BP: Did working behind the scenes with a dance company help when you started staging your own live performances?
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