Torse (Maryanne Amacher, Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham, 1977)

In 1976, Maryanne Amacher created Remainder, a composition to accompany Merce Cunningham’s Torse, a choreography from the same year. Charles Atlas’ two-channel dance film Torse was produced in 1977 at the University of Washington with three 16mm cameras facilitating various simultaneous perspectives on the dancing event. This film is one of the only extant documents to have captured the entirety of an Amacher work from the period.

The filmscreening is preceded by a talk by Bill Dietz, and followed by conversation between Bill Dietz and Lars Kwakkenbos.