michael clark choreography dance 3

[@mightysprocket]

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]

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.

[@carolbarnes1776]

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 !

[@jimmypaget5737]

I turned this on TV randomly once as a teenager and fell in love 💞💞💞with MC's stuff

[@jerrycargill5062]

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.

[@florencebascombe6053]

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!

[@Purstiltski7]

The dancing, the costumes... they just work together to achieve an odd sense of perfection!

[@CapnChapster]

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.

[@cogsinister]

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.

[@johnanderson2538]

Was Such a privilege too meet him in person the why he talks about the music and movement

[@WillyBiscuits]

"Ludd Gang". Circa 1983, B-side to "The Man Whose Head Expanded". Available on the reissue of the "Perverted By Language" album.

[@garrymac6928]

brilliant. never gets old.

[@GuyCybershy]

Been looking for that for ages. Still my favourite b side. RIP M.E.S.

[@VeggieNatureGirl]

This is phenomenal! Pure art!

[@whitelightsheddinweedsmokin]

Michael is dance inspo at a MILLION decibels.

[@stephengoff6149]

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.

[@petery47]

Pure magic.

[@JaimeLevy]

Video by Charlie Atlas (who did Merce Cunningham dance video direction) and customes by Leigh Bowery,,, if I'm not mistaken

[@qorkalingo]

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.

[@johnhaxby306]

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.

[@geoalley]

so good

[@bethanybartran683]

thrilling

[@samsalamander8147]

In my mind i imagined this dance to the stooges I wanna be your dog

[@derekwilson6612]

Except it would have been Elves off Wonderful and Frightning.

[@fdmcallister]

Likewise!

[@dantescanline]

Wow

[@Neilhuny]

Is that Katie Pucrick of 'The Word' - the one without the bulge in the pants?

[@WillyBiscuits]

You're right - it isn't. Why do you think I sound familiar?

[@WillyBiscuits]

@spacejockeycyrano Never heard of you, pal.

[@tykeboi]

Can anyone inform me of the costume designer?

[@JaimeLevy]

Leigh Bowery

[@andresfuentes5294]

Puros huecos