| Description | Off-air recording: BBC2, 19:25, 50 mins. Programme presented by Deborah Bull about how the mind reacts to movement. With footage of people dancing socially, animal rituals, tribal dance. Excerpts from The Rite of Spring (Hodson after Nijinsky), Sleeping Beauty (Mats Ek), The Art of Touch (Davies), Steptext (Forsythe), Bombay Dreams (Anthony van Laast) and Symphony in C (Balanchine). Deborah Bull asks Wayne McGregor and David Bintley to choreograph a work each using the same starting point. Both of these pieces are shown in this programme: Body Script (McGregor) and Gymnopedies (Bintley). |