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Dancing the Staircase
Author : marcelduchamp_admin February 2, 2010
Jonah Bokaer's Duchamp-Inspired "Octave"
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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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