Decca Dance
An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.
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[Club LaRay Presents: The Anita Baker Show (February 2, 1987)]
Club LaRay presents a “Battle of the Stars” with host Anita Baker (impersonator) and co-host Tasha Thomas. This video documents the performances throughout the night by queen impersonators of popular soul and r&b singers and groups such as Gladys Knight, Grace Jones, and The [male] Emotions.
Club LaRay was a Black, gay club in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, IL. The club was owned by Ray “LaRay” Hill. The club was housed in a former theatre consisting of two bars, a dancefloor, and a staircase that went from the floor to the ceiling, dubbed the “Stairs to Nowhere”. -
Decca Dance
An image processing video, in which images of dancers are manipulated and distorted with video effects.
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[Rocks / Dudley in Evergreen]
Images of young children and families playing in nature, followed by a movement study featuring Dudley Evenson.
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Soundings of the Planet / TAO OM / Desert Dawn Song / Great Mystery / Desert Airs
A compilation of short videos featuring new age music and images of and musings about nature. Includes Soundings of the Planet, Tao Om, Desert Dawn Song, Great Mystery, and Desert Airs.
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Trolley Dances
Documentary covering the San Diego Trolley Dances the director describes as “much more than a record of six original site-specific dance performances.”
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Rasa Dari Tari/The Soul of Dance
A portrait of the works of six Indonesian choreographers, interspersed with comments from the choreographers themselves.
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Nude/Etude
Described by the filmmaker as “an abstract poetry film,” the camera moves over a nude female body covered in shadow and transformed through optical printing while voices recite poetic texts in English and Spanish.