Bullfight

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Museum of Modern Art

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Recreates a dancer's emotions while watching a bullfight. The dance material is intercut and blended with footage from a bullfight ring in Spain. Sokolow creates her movement out of a distillation of the ritual gestures of the Spanish bullring. She embodies the matador and the bull, the executioner and the sacrifice.

Complete Record: Recreates a dancer's emotions while watching a bullfight. The dance material is intercut and blended with footage from a bullfight ring in Spain. Sokolow creates her movement out of a distillation of the ritual gestures of the Spanish bullring. She embodies the matador and the bull, the executioner and the sacrifice.


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