Elad Lassry Exhibition
John Connelly Presents
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In Elad Lassry’s untitled super 16mm film, New York City Ballet dancers Megan LeCrone and Ask La Cour perform the last minute of the seminal choreography by George Balanchine for the pas de deux from Agon (1957). The dancers are filmed from a pre-determined positioning of the camera based upon Doris Humphrey's diagram from her 1958 book "The Art of Making Dances" in which she breaks the dance stage into potential relative strength points. In referencing the foundation of Structuralist film, histories of dance on film, and the tension between neo classicism and modernism, the artist asks the audience to revisit cultural production from the perspective of a collaboration that has never happened.
[Image: Elad Lassry “film still” (2007) super 16mm film 13 min 27 sec.]
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from May 15, 2008 to June 21, 2008