Charles Atlas

Born: 1949

in Missouri, USA.

He lives and works in New York (USA).

Charles Atlas is a film and video maker who pioneered a new choreographic and cinematographic language called “media-dance”, which he developed as a resident filmmaker with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1974 to 1983. In addition to Merce Cunningham, he has collaborated with such choreographers as Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn and Yvonne Rainer, as well as with artists Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik and Marina Abramović. At the heart of his film work are the
creative possibilities of performance and portraiture, as well as the urgent political need to question the conventions of gender, sexuality and identity.

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