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Overview
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1984
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Polish
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Arts Council of Great Britain,Match Films
- Cast
- Jan Mlcoch,Dragoljub 'Raša' Todosijević,Zbigniew Warpechowski,Iain Robertson,Ewa Partum,Milan Knížák,Jerzy Beres,Tibor Hajas,Sonia Knox
- Director
- Ken McMullen
- Writer
- Stuart Brisley,Ken McMullen
- Producer
- Stuart Brisley,Ken McMullen
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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