| Dance Videos |
50 YEARS, DANCING WITH ROBOTS, a humorous video
art work of robots dancing with a ballerina. Chronicling the development
of robots worldwide, the video shows robots designed to walk over boulders
on the moon, and a self-propelled automobile [Carnegie Mellon Institute],
a robot playing ping-pong [Bell Labs], a robot turning somersaults
[MIT], and a swinging-through the-trees monkey robot [University
of Nagoya, Japan] |
| FLOWING LIGHT, a dance video with photographs by Jerry Uelsmann, sound score includes ancient and contemporary pieces played on the Australian didjeridoo. --premiere: Festival 2000, New York City. --XIV International Festival of Modern Choreography, Vitebsk, Belarus --VI International Dance Theatre Festival, Poland --5th Anniversary Celebration Kannon Dance Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia --Polish Dance Theatre, Poznan, Poland --National Conservatory of Dance, Lodz, Poland --Contemporary Art Center of Virgina, Virginia Beach --The Playhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy --The Maureen Stapleton Theatre, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy --National TV Broadcast, Belarus "Ravishing phantasms" ...The Village Voice, New York City |
| HADASSAH, A TRIBUTE, video commissioned for the Exhibit on Hadassah, Dance Collection, Lincoln Center, New York City; remains in the permanent collection |
| NEW YORK POST WAVE, a video art piece of the dance/theatre work in collaboration with poet, Allen Ginsberg, and composer and pianist, Borah Bergman, playing live; with set by Marilynn Danitz. --premiere: 3-Of-A-Kind, New York City --2-week New York City run, 3-Of-A-Kind --Award: Meet The Composer grant --Award: Outstanding Dance Theatre Work Of The Year --Television broadcast, Dance Brew, New York City --Award: Real Art Ways National Residency, funded by The National Endowment for the Arts --Award: Features International grant |
THE BIRTH OF THE SINU, video work with Michelle Ceballos, Prima Ballerina, The National Ballet of Colombia, S. America and Nukri Magalashvili, member, The Bolshoi Ballet, Leningrad, USSR and Principal, The Tbilisi Ballet, USSR, music composed on ancient American Indian instruments and played by the Yaki Kandru; commissioned by The National Ballet of Colombia, S. America. --National TV Broadcast, Bulgaria |
| THERE IS NO LONG HUMAN LIFE, with music composed by Charles Compo, and set by Marilynn Danitz. --broadcast: NATIONAL BROADCASTING VENEZUELA, South America --broadcast: NATIONAL BROADCASTING COLOMBIA, South America |
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Charles Allcroft  |