Clark Using Bowie Tune For Mass Dance At Tate Modern

Sway through the crowd to an empty space…

According to an item in The Guardian by Andrew Dickson, Michael Clark’s latest presentation has been worked out to the strains of David Bowie’s It’s No Game (Part 1). Here’s an excerpt from the article…

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Although the mass participation piece has been choreographed and rehearsed to David Bowie’s It’s No Game (Part 1) ? the singer is a hero of Clark’s, and provided the exultant climax to his most recent work, Come, Been and Gone ? Clark is considering altering it all at the last minute. “I’ve made things to completely different pieces of music to what I’ve shown them to, and obviously how that piece is interpreted is completely changed.” He pauses. “But I did it with my own dancers and they were like, ‘Woah, maybe you shouldn’t try that.'”

The amateur dancers have got more than enough to worry about just getting the choreography down before Friday. “At least it’s not like Glee, thank God,” mutters Penny, only half-joking. “Maybe he’ll throw that in at the last minute ? we’ll all have to burst out singing David Bowie or something.”

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Whether the Bowie tune makes it to the first of four free performances in the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern on Friday, only Clark can know.

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You can read more about the presentation and the performance times on the Tate Modern site and you can read the full Guardian piece here.