A Dance Film Inspired by the Music of Jim Morrison

1968

Dir. Toni Basil, Color Sound 00:02:00

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Perhaps the first film to combine classical dance with dancing of “the street.”

"...dancers in white face groove out in photomontage on a black backdrop to the music of Jimi Hendrix…”

[Source: Naomi Fry, "Paper Monument: A Journal of Contemporary Art," review of the exhibition "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle" at NYU]