Making Dances: Seven Post Modern Choreographers

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Making Dances: Seven Post Modern Choreographers

1980

(89 min.)

Making Dances explores a burgeoning contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York choreographers-Douglas Dunn, Kenneth King, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Meredith Monk, and Sarah Rudner. These discuss the nature of contemporary dance and the evolution of their work. Filmed during rehearsals, performances and in conversations, the film is a unique documentary source. The artistic roots of these seven choreographers can be found in Martha Graham's vision of modern life as a subject for dance and in the work of Merce Cunningham. In the 1960s, the interaction of art forms generated major choreographic innovations. Particularly influential was John Cage, whose radical ideas served as the starting point for much of the new choreography. Each of the choreographers in Making Dances draws inspiration from the Graham/Cunningham tradition and then develops it in his or her own distinctive way. Structure, movement in a nonfictional time-space, and the nature of movement itself are recurring themes.

Italian subtitles