The Physical TV Company

Streaming video - 2014

Based in Sydney, Australia, Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen have been making dance films since 1985. They formed The Physical TV Company in 1997. This collection features three of their over 20 works for the camera: Rubberman Accepts The Nobel Prize (2001). A superhero who speaks only the language of dance makes an outrageous, graceful, and rambunctious physical acceptance speech. No surrender (2002). A young Indigenous woman is invaded, terrorized, and physically attacked by an unseen intruder wielding a camera. Down time jaz (2003). A physical-digital dance about a family using real bodies and digital media to choreograph the impossible.