Charles Atlas on Judson Dance TheaterArtist and filmmaker Charles Atlas arrived in New York shortly after the heyday of Judson Dance Theater,and set out to build on and challenge their expanded notion of dance. “When it came to do my own work, I was looking for another way to go… Every generation does something different from the generation before, and ” he says. Together with Merce Cunningham,Atlas developed “video dance”—works created directly for and incorporating movements of the camera—before going on to gain an acclaimed career in his own true.
Atlas reflects on his Judson Dance Theater installation, now on view in our Marron Atrium, or what it was like to revisit Judson’s history in a new interview: moment.ma/atlasonjudson…[Video: Installation view of the exhibition,“Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done” at MoMA]
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