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Untitled Tango



1993
super-8mm black&white film 
transferred to HD video 
composed soundtrack
Duration: 1’52”
Performer: Tom Noone
Guitar: Torrin Williams
Location: London
In this brief moving image work the camera follows feet in close-up, as Tango steps are rehearsed outside, churning the grass. The dancer dances without plot or strategy, without intimacy or interaction. The steps are led but the camera struggles to follow. In this indistinct, melancholy scene, even the forlorn, plaintive guitar plays a disjointed, aimless Tango which is abruptly disconnected.
All you can see
running to the edge of a choreographed circle
expending the energy of youth
to keep up with hands that beat time to the silence.
Where breath is arrested, and beyond
lay the incessancy of a Tango

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