Collier Schorr: Writing a Letter, Akerman Ballet, Act 1

For many years, American photographer Collier Schorr has been creating a ballet inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film 'Je, tu, il, elle'. Following the film’s themes of transparency, sexuality, shame and love, Schorr has directed a piece consisting of videotaped dances in which she includes herself as a character alongside her fellow dancers and has pulled a large collection of film stills from the first act of this ballet.At once intimate and risky, questioning aspects of age, gender and racial norms historically underrepresented in ballet, Schorr tells a story about power, desire and compulsion. Published as a standalone document of one artist vigorously in conversation with another’s work, it is also an example of the way queer histories can be shared and cared for through adoration, adaptation and repetition.
ISBN 9798993181127. The Song Cave. pb. 240 pages. 180 b/w ills. 19.5 x 13.9 cm.
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