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Charles Atlas

Screening and Artist Talk
Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7PM
Theater

An evening of films and discussion with New York media-dance pioneer Charles Atlas. Atlas was in residence at EMPAC to produce a newly commissioned theatrical production (Tesseract) that premiered in EMPAC’s Theater in fall 2017. Intertwining dance, live and pre-recorded 3D video, the performance was choreographed in collaboration with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener.

Atlas has created numerous works for stage, screen, museum, and television, consistently pioneering the synthesis of technology and performance. A key figure in the development of “media-dance,” in which performance is created directly for the camera, Atlas was videographer-in-residence with Merce Cunningham Dance Company for a decade, and continues to collaborate extensively with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Diamanda Galas, and Mika Tajima/New Humans, among many others.

Photo: A still from the library of Charles Atlas. Video still courtesy the artist.

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Film/Video
Time-Based Visual Art
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Charles Atlas
Screening and Artist Talk
Thursday 23
7:00 PM
April 2015

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