Artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas arrived in New York shortly after the heyday of Judson Dance Theater, and set out to build on and challenge their expanded notion of dance. “When it came to do my own work, I was looking for another way to go... Every generation does something different from the generation before,” he says. Together with Merce Cunningham, Atlas developed “video dance”—works created directly for and incorporating movements of the camera—before going on to have an acclaimed caree

'Charles Atlas: Selected Video, 1987-2015' features three works by pioneering video artist Charles Atlas (American, b. 1949), highlighting his fifty-year career. 🎥 For decades, he partnered with choreographers like Merce Cunningham to develop Media Dance, which was designed with the camera in mind to capture all motion. 🕺🎞️ While Atlas remains behind the camera, his many performing collaborators are present throughout his multifaceted productions. 🎬 This series of three videos, from the late