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Filmed with an ultra high-speed camera, the original 3 minutes of encounter between two performers turn into a soft and stretched stream of movement that visualizes even smallest details. Dancers, pedestrians, environment enter a space where they merge ...

Conceived & directed by Elaine Summers
Cinematography: Bill Rowley
Performance: Ellen Krueger, Monica Wilson

Created during an artist-residency at the Intermedia Dept. of Iowa University, with thanks to Hans Breder

Courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, special thanks to Kinetic Awareness® Center.

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About Elaine Summers
"The work of Elaine Summers invites us to go beyond established categories or styles. It invites us to go beyond “secure” frames of perception. In fact, the very frame is deregulated, no longer a “safe” guided experience, but going beyond. […] Perception is liberated to flow where it will, guiding the way in the moment.“ (Thomas Körtvélyessy)

Elaine Summers (February 20, 1925 – December 27, 2014) was an American choreographer, experimental filmmaker, and intermedia pioneer. She was a founding member of the original workshop-group that would form the Judson Dance Theater and she significantly contributed to the interaction of film and dance, as well as the expansion of dance into other related disciplines, such as visual art, film, and theater. She fostered the expansion of performing dance in new, often outdoor locations. Her movement approach Kinetic Awareness® offers a comprehensive perspective on human movement and dance.

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