Join us for an evening of films and conversation exploring the daring and exuberant works and lives of Leigh Bowery, Les Child and Michael Clark. The three were key members of an audacious and outrageous creative scene emerging in London in the 80s and 90s. Across those years, the trio collaborated in different ways - including through the Michael Clark Dance Company, for which Bowery designed costumes and performed, and Child danced principal roles.
Programme
We will screen Charles Atlas' witty "docufantasy" Hail the New Puritan (1985/86). The film is a fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer, serving as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture.
A conversation between Michael Clark, Les Child and Leigh Bowery! curator Fiontan Moran will follow, alongside the premiere screening of Clark’s short film Revolting in the Bush which stars the trio.
This event takes place in a seated auditorium.
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