I watched this approx 35 years ago on a PBS show called Alive From Off Center. I was lucky enough to record it on VHS, but lost the tape in a house fire. I’m so glad to see it again on KZbin, brings me back to a wonderous time!
@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын
michael clark choreography dance 3 13.4.23 1159am gladly, i didnt suffer a house fire... but, i concur, it stans the test of time due to it's oddness... and the fall kept it goin via sheer weirdness - if you sit and weigh it up... mild mannered lathe operators by day weird musicians for weird dance troupes by night... i can say i was at the i am kurious, oranj ballet - cos.. err.. i was at the i am kurious, oranj ballet... a nice journey. a proper fan interaction... long trek to see show, no money to get a pint or enjoy any of the sights, trynna sleep under bushes as it pissed it down... all safe int he knowledge that that's what "fans" do - suffer indignities to say: they were there.... the song ludd gang is also one of my favs, too.
@carolbarnes17764 жыл бұрын
I discovered him in the 1980s and saw him perform at Sadlers Wells,I was blown away and mesmerised. The dancing and the music were a fascinating combination !
@jimmypaget57374 жыл бұрын
I turned this on TV randomly once as a teenager and fell in love 💞💞💞with MC's stuff
@jerrycargill50626 жыл бұрын
You could get a million more people interested in dance and watching dance just by showing them videos like this. I had a gf who was a dance major at Columbia College, 25 years ago. I didn't think I was interested much in dance. She took me to one dance recital that went something like this. It blew my mind. Thanks to whoever is posting this Clark stuff.
@florencebascombe60533 жыл бұрын
I was training at a dance college in the early 00's, and loved punk music. I didn't think that I 'fitted' in with everyone else there who loved to dance to the latest pop music. We were introduced to some of the 'punkier' contemporary choreographers of the time (like the cholmondeleys and featherstonehaughs) but never Michael Clark. I feel cheated to have discovered him today. I may have been inspired to continue with my training if I had seen the path that I could have taken!
@Purstiltski714 жыл бұрын
The dancing, the costumes... they just work together to achieve an odd sense of perfection!
@CapnChapster14 жыл бұрын
was watching TV in my pokey London flat in 1986, flicking channels, chanced on Hail The New Puritan, thought "WTF is this????" Blown away. Never went to another lecture, got a lousy 2.2, and saw the MC Company at the Barbican in June 2010, where they were even better. Barking, mad as a box of frogs, and seamlessly perfect.
@cogsinister15 жыл бұрын
I recall seeing Michael Clark and the Fall around in the 80's...where one was, the other wasn't far behind, I was already a Fall fan but wondered where the Fall were going with all this 'dance' stuff...ballet...Lee Bowery..what was going on? Anyway I took it all in it's stride and thought "whatever"...as the years have gone by and I watch videos of MC dancing to the Fall music...and The Fall with MC dancing it's not till it's gone you realise with hindsight what such quality it all was. Superb.
@johnanderson25388 жыл бұрын
Was Such a privilege too meet him in person the why he talks about the music and movement
@WillyBiscuits15 жыл бұрын
"Ludd Gang". Circa 1983, B-side to "The Man Whose Head Expanded". Available on the reissue of the "Perverted By Language" album.
@garrymac69288 жыл бұрын
brilliant. never gets old.
@GuyCybershy6 жыл бұрын
Been looking for that for ages. Still my favourite b side. RIP M.E.S.
@VeggieNatureGirl12 жыл бұрын
This is phenomenal! Pure art!
@whitelightsheddinweedsmokin5 жыл бұрын
Michael is dance inspo at a MILLION decibels.
@stephengoff614911 жыл бұрын
Great commentary. You are so right how totally, uniquely, special it was and how at the time, well, it was what was happening; cool of course but y'know lots of stuff seemed so too. But when i see & hear this now it's stronger than ever. If there's not quite a thousand years here (forgive recourse to a hammy song; Mark himself references Blue Christmas!) it absolutely blows anything that's happening now out of the water; it's beautiful, polemical, truthful and bang on the fucking ukulele.
@petery4712 жыл бұрын
Pure magic.
@JaimeLevy3 жыл бұрын
Video by Charlie Atlas (who did Merce Cunningham dance video direction) and customes by Leigh Bowery,,, if I'm not mistaken
@qorkalingo12 жыл бұрын
What a genius. In a world where everything stripped of it's meaning and nothing real has much of a chance of survival, we have this to combat the Disneyfication of art.
@johnhaxby3063 ай бұрын
I hope you all enjoyed a peak intowhat is happening in my brain at any given moment. this is why I'm just standing there and staring at a wall.
@geoalley15 жыл бұрын
so good
@bethanybartran68310 жыл бұрын
thrilling
@samsalamander81474 жыл бұрын
In my mind i imagined this dance to the stooges I wanna be your dog
@derekwilson66124 жыл бұрын
Except it would have been Elves off Wonderful and Frightning.
@fdmcallister15 жыл бұрын
Likewise!
@dantescanline15 жыл бұрын
Wow
@Neilhuny4 жыл бұрын
Is that Katie Pucrick of 'The Word' - the one without the bulge in the pants?
@WillyBiscuits15 жыл бұрын
You're right - it isn't. Why do you think I sound familiar?