摘要:Martha Clarke Light and Dark portrays an artist's imaginative sources, and the process through which she creates an orginal evening of theatrical dance. The film departs from traditional dance films by looking behind a finished performance to its imaginative sources and the process by which the performance grows. A member of Pilobolus Dance Theater since 1971, Martha Clarke left the Company to develop a more openly theatrical evening of her own. Her work is hard to pin down, drawing from modern dance, mime, the traditional clown's repertroie, and from paintins. It is often comic, yet with a pathos wholly original to her own make-up as an artist. Filmmaker Joyce Chopra and Martha Clarke worked together for over one year, filmming Martha and her collaborators at her studio. In this way they were able to follow the development of four new dance pieces and the hard work of refining, rehearsing and then learning from audiences.
