Pole Dance

Description

'Pole Dance' is a collaboration between Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Anita Pace; they reconstruct 'Pole Dance, 1977'. This video features two performers in an empty dance studio. The "dance," choreographed by Anita Pace, is a progression of synchronized movements, with each participant interacting with long wooden poles. Aside from the hollow knocking of the poles against the floor, the only sounds are non-verbal utterances, including yells and sobbing. At times resembling a vaudeville routine, at others approaching the ritualized movements of martial arts. Against the stripped down setting, the piece is determined by the idea of duality; the interplay of the performers becomes a blank slate onto which a viewer might inscribe allegories of difference.

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