Two Girls Downtown Iowa
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Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos
Original format
16mm
Color
b&w
Color system
NTSC
Availability
Collection
In ‘Two Girls Downtown Iowa’ two women rush toward each other on a crowded pavement at the slowest of slow-motion speeds. Summer creates a remarkable conflation of kinetic effect and almost painterly moment-by-moment composition. Interested in the processes that constitute modern dance´s vocabulary as a socially engaged artistic form of expression, Summers gives vision to the question of “What happens in that charged moment when a dancer activates a space?”