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Roseland

This installment features a collection of elaborately staged and filmed modern-dance routines by the avant-garde dance troupe Ultima Vez. The program begins without any sort of introduction; the first piece consists simply of two men blowing on a feather in an effort to keep it afloat. In another routine, a male dancer stalks a female dancer around a post-apocalyptic urban set. Whenever he reaches out to molest her, she dodges the advances by twisting her body at the precise moment at which he would make contact. After a few minutes, she begins to fight back, stomping her feet at the man and creating a simple rhythm with her footwear. The group also explores natural rhythms in a piece that is based around the members' throwing cinder blocks at each other. A few of the moves are stunts; one man throws a large brick thirty feet into the air and stands under it as it falls back towards him, only to get pushed out of the way at the last second by another dancer. Large chunks of this footage are presented in slow motion. The last routine the group performs is made up of an unusual series of actions. One dancer soaks his shirt in a cauldron of boiling water as he tells a fairy tale about the plight of a bird stuck on a sky-less Earth. Eventually, the man takes the soaking shirt out of the pot and puts it on. As he wrings out the still boiling water, another dancer convulses on the ground next to him.

English
  • Originally Aired August 16, 1991
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Created July 15, 2021 by
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  • Modified July 15, 2021 by
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