Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance
premieres
The Dance Film Short

SINGLE USE

Choreographed & Performed by JODY SPERLING

Director of Photography ANGELA HUNTER
Edited by JODY SPERLING
Costume by LAUREN GASTON
Music by MATTHEW BURTNER

timelapsedance.com/events/tldat20/

July 22, 2020 7 p.m.

JODY SPERLING has way too much fun frolicking in the streets dressed as a clump of reclaimed plastic bags. What a happy blob of trash!

She designed her performance to evoke thoughts on the nature of disposability and resuscitation. She begins as a lady gazing at the clothes in a shop window. Then she ties plastic bags on her feet, wraps one around her hair, and dons a mesh dress covered in the flowing colored bags of New York bodegas, drugstores, and groceries.

No longer identifiable as human, she embarks on her Bag Journey. Hopping, skipping, lying on the sidewalk, rolling in the grass of a median, leaning against buildings, and wrapping herself around poles. Splashes of techno music accompany her, aided by a providential police siren in the distance.

At a little under ten minutes long, this is both a statement and a treat. Makes you want to hug a bag, or at least treat it gently when you stuff it into the recycling bin.

-Karen D’Onofrio-