Babette Mangolte - Trisha Brown WATER MOTOR (1978)

Babette Mangolte - Trisha Brown WATER MOTOR (1978), film, 35 mm, or video, projection, black and white (silent). About: “Trisha Brown WATER MOTOR is a filmed record of a solo performance by American postmodern dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown. In order to better understand the dance, Mangolte learned to perform Water Motor herself. Mangolte shot Brown as she performed the solo twice, and then on the third take she decided to film in slow motion: ’I shot slow motion, knowing that it would reveal the dance and the movement in a totally different context... the slow motion version permits a second look at the coreography, and the spectators can marvel at what they remember and also what they missed the first time around’“ (Tate Modern, Liverpool)