Limit search to available items
Record 39 of 63
Previous Record Next Record
Streaming video

Title Exploring anatomy through dance : Claire Porter's "Namely, muscles" / produced & directed by Charles Dennis
Published Brooklyn, N.Y. : Charles Dennis, [2007]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (35 min. each))
Series Alive & kicking ; program# 87-88
Dance in video.
Summary Focuses on choreographer/poet Claire Porter as she explores human anatomy in her full evening's piece 'Namely, Muscles.' In this work she recites 30 plus poems that she has written as she performs movements that enact 68 major muscles of the body and then some. Poems include 'Psoas: the tender bender, ' 'Gluteus to my ears, ' 'Long in the head, ' 'Just the meat, ' 'The rotator gang, ' 'Names on your nerves, ' 'Tongues, ' 'And now a word from our tendons' and more. Each video in this series features an individual artist and includes excerpts from an in-depth interview and clips from a live performance
Subject Porter, Claire -- Interviews
SUBJECT Porter, Claire. fast (OCoLC)fst00399443
Subject Performance art -- United States.
Conceptual art -- United States
Choreographers -- United States -- Interviews
Choreographers.
Conceptual art.
Performance art.
United States.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Form Streaming video
Author Porter, Claire.
Dennis, Charles.
Other Titles Namely, muscles