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They do not apply to associated talks, films or workshops. “Mmm…” was his take on “The Rite of Spring.”, Leigh Bowery and Rachel Auburn in Charles Atlas’s film “Hail the New Puritan.”, via Charles Atlas and Luhring Augustine, New York, With Ellen van Schuylenburch in “Hail the New Puritan.”. Peter Doig I would argue that Michael is one of the most important British artists of our generation. Weekdays (Mon – Fri) In 1998, he returned to London to create a work, “current/SEE,” a process documented by the filmmaker Sophie Fiennes in “The Late Michael Clark,” on show in the Barbican exhibition. It’s on a 50-minute loop with four other dances, and it took me two hours to get there. Unwaged: £11 He introduced a whole audience who may not have been interested in contemporary dance to the form. Download the exhibition guide ahead of your visit. Teaming up with scenesters like the performance artist Leigh Bowery (a frequent model for Lucian Freud), the experimental design duo BodyMap and rock bands like the Fall and Wire, Mr. Clark became known for his provocative, surrealist shows. I love Michael’s work, and I love him. In order to recreate the buzz of Clark’s work, the exhibition uses a video technology that didn’t exist when most of it was originally made. The result is a chronological and stylistic scramble, which jumps from burlesque, to chat, to severe geometric dance sequences and back again. Aged four, he took up Scottish dancing in his home city of Aberdeen and at 13 he embarked on four years at the Royal Ballet School, leaving it for a brief stint with Ballet Rambert, before striking out on his own aged just 22. For any press enquiries, please use the email below or visit our Press Room for the latest press releases. October 21, 2020. With eye-popping graphics (“Enjoy God’s Disco” reads an early flyer for his company in Coca-Cola red and white), film installations and high-flyer art-world contributions, the exhibition evokes a moment in which dance wove itself into the fabric of a newly charged youth culture. Find out more about which exhibitions are currently available for touring with Barbican International Enterprises. You will need to bring wired headphones with a 3.5mm jack. Susan Stenger After the first rehearsal together, I just knew it was going to work. The Art Gallery has two levels, linked by a flight of 24 stairs with an intermediate landing. They cannot be combined to make greater savings. The visual splendor of the exhibition, which opens Wednesday, vibrantly displays the pop-culture thrills of Mr. Clark’s arrival on the scene in London in the early 1980s. More info. Tom Van Der Borght wins the 35th International Festival Hyères.

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Vaudeville, camp and comedy were all part of the mix. Charles Atlas, filmmaker and video artist I met Michael at a gallery opening in London in 1981 when I was touring with Merce Cunningham.

His works were electrifying.

In his memoir, “Confessions of a Motion Addict,” Mr. Petronio writes that when the pair were struggling to create a performance for the Anthony d’Offay gallery in London, he insisted “that we perform the only real thing that we have a serious daily practice in: sex.” (It was called “Heterospective.”), By the early 1990s, Mr. Clark had flamed out, struggling with alcohol, heroin and, later, methadone addictions. Actually though, the Barbican’s show devoted to the dancer and choreographer Michael Clark is really great: funny, smart, a bit wonky in places. Students: £12 As a choreographer, he was very trusting. He allowed me to put him in unexpected places and contexts, and he was very playful with it.

Please bring proof of discount status where possible. “He was in Peter Greenaway’s ‘Prospero’s Books,’ dancing in a warehouse in King’s Cross, at the new St. John’s restaurant, which the art crowd frequented. Glass showcases Fendi’s Baguette project – titled Hand-in-Hand. Elizabeth Peyton; via Sadie Coles HQ, London.

Have a question about membership? Under 14s: Free, Weekends (Sat & Sun) “I can still remember the packed audience, the sense of event that Michael was always so brilliant at creating.”, These were Mr. Clark’s golden years. Our reciprocal agreement with other art institutions is currently suspended. It displayed the clean lines, speed and precision of his ballet training along with surprising off-balance tilts, pelvic thrusts that propel the legs and sudden shifts of weight. A collection of Sarah Lucas pieces includes a miniature of the masturbating arm from 2001’s Before and After: The Fall, and Cnut, a concrete cast of Clark’s torso, enthroned on a toilet, holding a cigarette, atop a giant sandwich. Wolfgang Tillmans Michael is interested in so many other things, and that creates criticisms of a lack of purity, of a watering-down or choosing an easier option. We’ve plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus. Author, playwright and journalist Ali Smith describes the elation of experiencing Michael Clark’s most recent work, featuring fearless dancers in a gorgeous triple bill of arresting choreography. In 1989 he started a relationship with the choreographer Stephen Petronio. LONDON — Dancer, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, prodigal son, perfectionist, art-world darling, club-world star: Michael Clark was for a long time the enfant terrible of British dance. From Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer at the Barbican (Photo: Richard Haughton) I … Step-free access on each floor of the Art Gallery. It’s one of time’s more backhanded jokes that Michael Clark, the naughty fairy of British dance, is in his sixth decade and the subject of a major exhibition. Your discount will apply on the confirmation page. It’s not like a rock concert where you are absorbed by the sound.

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“But when he came back after his hiatus, you felt he was more interested in the dance; in some of the later work, everything is sculpted, nothing is wasted. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Sort by Support us. He didn’t make distinctions between high and low art. A number of the contributors to the exhibition and close associates talked about or emailed their memories of working with Mr. Clark and offered reflections on their collaborations and relationships with him. Elizabeth Peyton, artist I think where other people make a big deal about certain things sitting side by side, for instance punk and classical ballet, for Michael this is natural — all coming from the same place — all can exist together. “The combination of drug problems and personal issues meant he couldn’t sustain a career and hasn’t had the impact his talent deserved,” said Debra Craine, the chief dance critic of The London Times. If you do need to check bags into our free cloakrooms, we suggest arriving early. He confronts an absurd world with actions that are equally inexplicable. A poignant feature of any dance exhibition is that such an ephemeral art form is always destined to be remembered largely through its accoutrements: among them are the outrageous costumes designed by Bowery and his collaborator Trojan (Bowery’s nipple-pinching red onesie from 1984’s New Puritans hangs in a small costume section like a discarded condom). A lot of possibilities. In fact, you don’t have to be an aficionado to appreciate anything about Michael Clark (he himself said “I try to make dance that isn’t about dance”). With Michael, we would talk more about what I was thinking, but essentially he left me to do the best I could do. But never fear: to enter the Barbican art gallery is to step through a looking-glass into a body of work that seems as edgy and provocative as it ever did, for all that much of it only survives through flickering archive footage. We were completely on the same wavelength about music; he loves Stravinsky and Satie, but also Bowie, Nina Simone, Iggy Pop.

He stretched out on a bench and the whole time we were playing I thought he was asleep, but afterward he asked me if I’d be interested in working together, and it was clear he had been immersed in it and taken in all the details. The choreographer and dancer Michael Clark in 1986.Credit...Richard Haughton. Stars relive their wild times with Michael Clark, t’s one of time’s more backhanded jokes that. But the work was always crafted as well as entertaining. They were all part of his musical world. (In The New York Post, Clive Barnes dismissed Mr. Clark’s company’s Brooklyn Academy of Music debut in 1986, saying he was trying “to shock the unshockable, surprise the unsurprised and make whoopee on an almost deflated cushion.”) But it’s hard to overstate his impact on London dance in the early 1980s, when fresh out of the Royal Ballet School and a stint with Ballet Rambert, he began to choreograph. Silk Street, London At first it’s all a bit of a cacophony, but gradually a shape begins to emerge from a sofa-chat in which a cherubic-looking Clark gives his origin story. October 21, 2020. Assistance dogs are welcome. They cannot be combined to make greater savings. If you don't have the correct headphones or forget them, then we will have some available to purchase in the centre on the day of your visit. Silke Otto-Knapp’s watercolor “Group (Formation),” 2020. via Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; greengrassi, London. The first major exhibition of dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. For general HR enquiries, please contact us on the details below. It's good to hear when we exceed your expectations... and when we could do better. EC2Y 8DS. This exploration of Clark’s work establishes his radical presence in British cultural history. We’re only allowed to welcome visitors in groups if they‘re from the same household or support bubble. There are very few people who can make dance that clean and profound.”, Mr. Clark declined to be interviewed for this article, but in an interview with Ms. Ostende in the excellent exhibition catalog, he offers a succinct take on his art. Charles Atlas He was always easy. He was in a couple of films of mine, and then in 1984 I did the lighting for him and Ellen van Schuylenburch in a duet called “New Puritans,” which was on his company’s first program. The entrance opens on a new installation by Clark’s longtime collaborator Charles Atlas, which remixes two earlier archive film collages into a loop, different stages of which play on nine screens. He may not offer the pure movement, but he creates a contextual tension that is interesting for his audience. Wolfgang Tillmans, photographer I don’t feel at a loss in his performances, even if I don’t understand what they mean. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance. Critics mostly hated the costumes and music around the movement, but young audiences adored the spectacle. Our cloakrooms are currently closed so avoid brining large bags or umbrellas with you, The exhibition contains some works of an adult nature.

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