Elaine Summers

Documentation of a dance performance by Trisha Brown filmed by Elaine Summers

Windows in the Kitchen is a film dance by Elaine Summers and a collaboration of four female New York artists: Originally part of an intermedia concert at the now-legendary The Kitchen, Matt Turney (1950-1973), icon of the Martha Graham Company, explores in a loft the possibilities of relaxed, casual to expansive movement. Along a large window front, which offers a view of the building opposite, a dialogue is created between Turney’s organic movements and the rectangular forms of New York’s architecture.

Filmed with an ultra high-speed camera, the original 3 minutes of encounter between two performers turn into a soft and stretched stream of movement that visualizes even smallest details. Dancers, pedestrians, environment enter a space where they merge...