Basement Films 16mm Documentary Series: Dance
Sun, Feb 22
|Puerta al Tango
Dance films from the archive and panel discussion
Time & Location
Feb 22, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Puerta al Tango, 1500 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA
About the event
16mm dance films from the Basement Films archive, curated by Basement Films members INCLUDING a brief discussion after the films with an esteemed panel of local dance instructors: Elana Anderson, Graham Stanford, and Luke Loffelmacher
Showing:
Pas De Deux
Norman McLaren, 1968
Animation by Norman McLaren and produced by The National Film Board of Canada. Pas de deux is choreographed to Romanian pan pipe music by Ludmilla Chiriaeff.Ballerina Margaret Mercier dances by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by Vincent Warren to perform the pas de deux of the title.
It was filmed in a studio where the walls and floor were painted black. Lighting was from the sides, so only the dancers' silhouettes appear, and their images are repeatedly multiplied 10 times.
