UNCUT Presents: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Charles Atlas’ Hail The New Puritan In partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre

To celebrate this trailblazing film, the evening will include:

🕺”hey it was nice knowing you”, a live dance performance by DOLLHEAD 2000 (aka Bray Cairns and Roberto Soria)

🎓 Introduction, Framing The Film by Amelia Ehrhardt from Weird Ballet

🎞️ Feature screening of Hail the New Puritan

(dir. Charles Atlas, UK, 1986, 85 min)

Directed by Charles Atlas and featuring the work of Scottish choreographer Michael Clark, Hail The New Puritan is a fictionalized documentary capturing the rare intersection of ballet technique, punk aesthetic, and queer subculture that defined Clark’s groundbreaking work in the 1980s.

With Leigh Bowery in charge of  Production Design and The Fall behind the soundtrack, Hail The New Puritan is more than a dance film, it is a portrait of a radical artistic moment that reshaped how contemporary dance could exist within popular and underground culture.

Please note that the venue is non accessible due to a flight of stairs to access the theatre.

The film will be presented in English, with English subtitles.

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