SIX PHRASES IN REAL TIME 1976

This work is a mediated representation of a live performance that took place at Serramonte Shopping Mall in Daly City just South of San Francisco. In the work, five dancers manipulated six movement phrases, interacting with six monitors in the public space featuring a live relay of events. At certain moments, the camera person and dancers would switch roles and performers would frequently blend in with the movements of the crowd, who were likely unfamiliar with the type of performance they were seeing. The form of the work itself is presented as an interpretation of events rather than a strict documentation, expanding the creative potential of archival methods.

Deborah Mangum was a professor at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, which boasted an innovative dance program for its time. The school was acquired by a Jesuit university in 1978 at which point, the dance department and nearly all records of it were eliminated