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JARV IS: A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

16 Oct 20 – 16 Oct 21, Available on demand. Dur.: 20 mins approx

Rock musician and choreographer Michael Clark collaborator Jarvis Cocker reacts to the Barbican's landmark exhibition with A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

By Teresa Guerreiro on 21/10/2020

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JARV IS: A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer JARV IS: A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer Teresa Guerreiro
Jarvis Cocker and Michael Clark are both compelling, epoch-making performers in their respective disciplines: musician Cocker, founder and frontman of the band Pulp, was one of the foremost exponents of 90s Britpop, whose music and public persona have continued to evolve to this day; Michael Clark was the world's first punk ballet dancer, whose choreography has developed into one of the most exciting and exacting dance making anywhere.


In their heyday, neither was averse to shocking: Michael Clark's 80s dancers with their bare bums, for example, were more than matched by Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion at the 1996 Brit Awards in protest against Michael Jackson's performance.


It was almost inevitable that their paths should cross; and when they did they generated a vital and thrilling collaboration. They first worked together in WHO’S ZOO? at the 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York, during which Cocker’s former band, Relaxed Muscle, performed live on stage.


In the same year, Clark brought New Work to the Barbican, who co-commissioned the piece. For the second half of the programme Jarvis performed live alongside Clark's dancers, an electrifying collaboration that proved beyond doubt these two stage animals had been born to work together.


Now, with Barbican artistic associate Clark celebrated in the exhibition Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Jarvis Cocker has provided his own reaction: A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer. Cocker said: 'Take a look for yourself. Walk around, and slowly it will start to dawn on you, as it did on me: dance is the language of the human body. And nobody speaks it better than Michael Clark.'


In this short film, his recently created new band, JARV IS perform numbers from their latest album Beyond the Pale, as well as covers from Velvet Underground and Michael Clark's punk collaborators, The Fall, in the exhibition's own settings: Charles Atlas A Prune Twin (2020), the recreated set of Clark’s collaboration with The Fall for I Am Curious, Orange (1988), and in Sarah Lucas’s installation.


Filmed by Andy Hul, A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer premiered on the Barbican website earlier this month and is available to view free. You can watch it here.

by Teresa Guerreiro

What JARV IS: A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
Where Online | MAP
When 16 Oct 20 – 16 Oct 21, Available on demand. Dur.: 20 mins approx
Price £FREE
Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wir2q08yZ3k



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