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Mirrorball | Dancer 2005



For many years now, we have noticed that some of the more moving videos we have shown, feature dance as their central component. Film’s like Mike Mills’ Bad Ambassador for The Divine Comedy or Blue Source’s Days Go By for The Avalanches feature dance within a narrative. Others, such as the ubiquitous It’s Oh So Quiet for Björk and Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice, both by Spike Jonze are like song-and-dance sequences from films that never were. Of course some artists rely on a halfway decent choreographer to inject some life into their otherwise colourless lip-synching – boy bands base their careers on little more. Dancer has none of these.

From the ordered chaos of Michel Gondry’s Around the World (Daft Punk) to Dougal Wilson making the scarf-and-sword-play of the Morris men cool (Four Tet, As Serious As Your Life ), this programme includes archive classics alongside more recent examples of the genre.

Mirrorball | Dancer gives MGM’s Freed Unit a run for its money.

Avalanches, Since I left you
Dir. Blue Source
Supplied by Blue Source,

Dirty Vegas, Days Go By
Dir. Blue Source
Supplied by Blue Source

Björk, It's Oh So Quiet
Dir. Spike Jonze
Supplied by One Little Indian

Playgroup, Number One
Dir. H5
Supplied by Partizan

Divine Comedy, Bad Ambassador
Dir. Mike Mills
Supplied by Directors Bureau