Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

Jan 1, 1978

0h 8m

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Overview

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play an integral role in this piece.

Genres

Fantasy

Production Companies

Spiral Productions

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Cast

Lynda Davis

Clay Taliaferro

Carol Warner

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

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Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Trans

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Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

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