Trans [videorecording] : excerpt from Four journeys into mystic time / Shirley Clarke. [1980]

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Trans [videorecording] : excerpt from Four journeys into mystic time / Shirley Clarke. [1980]

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Trans is one in a series of four video dance pieces by Shirley Clarke in which she uses visual abstraction as choreographic material. By means of compositional flow, editing rhythms, and manipulation and distortion of the image, she explores the choreographic potential of the video medium. In Trans, Clarke manipulates the video image to create an "aura" that shadows the figure of the dancer, who enacts the transition following death, when body becomes spirit.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (9 min.) ; 3/4 in. original (3 copies)

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Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997

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Born in New York, Shirley Clarke first made waves as a dancer studying with modern choreographers like Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Doris Humphrey. In early short films, such as A Dance in the Sun (1953), Bullfight (1955), and Bridges Go Round (1958), she successfully fused her interests in choreography and cinema. Subsequent feature films The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1964), and Portrait of Jason (1967) were landmarks of independent cinema, charting an uncompromising path through con...

Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...