Duchampian News & Views

Dancing the Staircase

Author : marcelduchamp_admin Jonah Bokaer's Duchamp-Inspired "Octave" Image Source

With one foot firmly in the realm of dance and the other arched toward the visual arts, 28-year-old choreographer Jonah Bokaer often looks back to Duchamp — spiritual godfather of his more immediate mentor Merce Cunningham — for tactical inspiration. Bokaer has danced with bicycle wheels while the audience threw transit cards at him; other performances have been generated out of chance operations or minutely photographed for publication as flip books.

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