SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee Katz, Kumiko Kimoto, David Zambrano, Ginger Gillespie, Mark Dendy, and others, painstaking synched to music previously improvised for the project at...
Paint is employed here with visceral as well as visual delight and it is given several metaphoric meanings to boot. The intertwining of art and its illusions with so-called reality explored with exuberance.
Set in an abandoned ocean liner pier on the Hudson River, New York City circa 1984 dancers interact with graffiti, abandoned objects and the crumbling architecture.