Video Programs for Sale: Tongue Smell Color

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Tongue Smell Color
A movement theater discourse
$60.00

Tongue Smell Color is a movement theater discourse performed by Brenda Dixon Gottschild and Hellmut Gottschild. It is centered around the large issues of race, gender, nationality, memory, and guilt, but is realized in the intimate arena of one couple. It is entertaining, sensuous, often humorous, and always provocative as it gves voice to fantasies, biases, and taboos with which we are all familiar and that we usually keep to ourselves. Drawing on Dixon Gottschild's cultural research as well as her performance background in avant-garde theater, and Gottschild's life-long involvement in performance as a choreographer, dancer, and mime, the artists use the body as metaphor and sign to explore thresholds and disjunctions as well as bridges and continuities.

Brenda Dixon Gottschild is Professor Emerita of dance studies at Temple University where she taught performance history, theory, and criticism. She writes for Dance Magazine and is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance (Greenwood, 1998), Waltzing in the Dark (St. Martin's, 2002), The Black Dancing Body (Palgrave, 2003) and many scholarly articles in anthologies and professional journals. She has perfromed and taught internationally as a professional actor-dancer.

Hellmut Gottschild is the founder and long-time director of ZeroMoving dance company, for which he has been acknowledged with numerous honors and awards. Before coming to America, he studied visual arts and danced under Mary Wigman in his native Berlin. In 1996 he resigned from his position as a professor of dance at Temple University in order to devote himself exclusively to his artistic work.

Written by Hellmut Gottschild
Performed by Hellmut Gottschild and Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Directed for video by Dennis Diamond
Length: 70 minutes
VHS NTSC only