Learning on ScreenTwyla Tharp Dance Foundation - Catherine Wheel
- Synopsis
- A video version of the Broadway production refashioned for television, using an assortment of spectacular visual techniques. A collaborative work between TwylaTharp and David Byrne (of The Talking Heads), The Catherine Wheel is a continuous piece of dance/theatre that makes its way toward a fireworklike finale through episodes presenting the disintegration of the nuclear family, while ruminating on the detonation of nuclear weapons. The seventeen dance sections work alongside Byrne’s twenty-three musical selections. Structurally the dance momentum evolves classically: development, climax, denouement and apotheosis. Enacted family squabbles, domestic scenes and poetic intrigue mesh into and out of dance sequences.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2005
- Subjects
- Dance
- Keywords
- modern dance; performances; Tharp, Twyla
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £17.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 87 minutes
- Year
- 2005
Distributor
- Name
Warner Music Vision
- Phone
- 020 7938 5500
- Fax
- 020 7368 4931
- Address
- Electric Lighting Station
46 Kensington Court
London
W8 5DA
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