
1983
The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed Bye. Dunn's athletic choreography is performed to the rhythms, cadences, and associative meanings of the poets' "cascade of words," which function as music. Atlas introduces narrative references, ironically staging the dance in unexpected locations, including domestic interiors and vehicles. In a self-referential deconstruction that punctures the theatrical illusion, the poets are seen reading their texts and interacting as self-conscious performers within the dance. Atlas and his collaborators intersect the language of words with the language of the body.

Susan Blankensop
Dancer

Douglas Dunn
Dancer

I Wish I Never Met You

The Hours

Finding Forrester

Roman Holiday

A Line a Day Must Be Enough!

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

Kylie: Greatest Hits 87-97

Le bac philo des humoristes

So As Not to Sleep

It's in the Stars

Dancing, Some Days

Rize

Kinetics

Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius

Berlin Horse

Boogie Woogie

The Kettle

The Science of Sleep

Kiki of Montparnasse

Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto