Bath Film Festival 2008

Elad Lassry

In Elad Lassry's untitled super 16mm film, New York City Ballet dancers Megan LeCrone and Ask La Cour perform the last minute of the seminal choreography by George Balanchine for the pas de deux from Agon (1957). The dancers are filmed from a predetermined positioning of the camera based on Doris Humphrey's diagram from her 1958 book The Art of  Making Dances which splits the dance stage into potential relative strength points. In referencing the foundation of Structuralist film, histories of dance on film and the tension between neo classicism and modernism, the artist asks the audience to revisit cultural production from the perspective of a collaboration that has never happened.

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