Merce Cunningham + Appalachian Clogging = CLOGGINGHAM

For StealThisDance.com, Lucky Plush Productions experiments with creating fusion dance forms. This one is a mash-up of 2 forms: Merce Cunningham & Appalachian Clogging.

In conjunction with our 10th anniversary project Punk Yankees, Lucky Plush Productions created www.StealThisDance.com, an homage to Abbie Hoffmans Steal This Book (1971). The site is intended to stimulate discussion and interaction around questions about intellectual property and the value of dance. The site documents our ongoing work on Punk Yankees, and our experimentation with sampling, remixing, and appropriating physical movement.

We are also compiling a list of illegal arts incidents and incidences related to sampling, appropriation, and copyright law, as well as keeping a blog, in which we will discuss the ongoing project . Be sure to visit us at www.StealThisDance.com and give us your feedback!

About Lucky Plush Productions:

"indefinable moments of beauty, wit and fire" - Chicago Tribune

Led by choreographer Julia Rhoads, Lucky Plush Productions is a Chicago-based dance theater company that facilitates the relationship between dance, performance and new media technologies, offering a distinctive interdisciplinary platform for innovative artists. Since founding in 1999, the company has premiered 28 original works, including performance installations, 2 dance films, and 8 evening-length productions. For more information visit www.luckyplush.com.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• appalachian
• clogging
• merce
• cunningham
• lucky
• plush
• steal
• this
• dance
• mash
• up
• sample

[rbsadler]

Wow! What an amazing fusion! I can't wait to see more!

[PogxsmuhowneyPohl]

This is almost hypnotic. I've watched it a hundred times and sent it to my in-laws.

[boywithshades]

this is brilliant