A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 1986
Original Title:
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 15
Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas Dunn and his remarkable company. The natural humor and classically tender abruptness of their gestures and phrases are beautiful enlargements or details of, in human scale, in animal scale, body to body, the vectors of form and relation in the carefully eyed city life outside.
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