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To the music of the Residents: the clan of vowels embodied by the tribal Gretcha Cargo, her flesh painted by Geneviève Hervé, who then made her first dance video. The electronic effects were designed to echo the makeup: the colors merge and interact under the movements of the dancer, thus transformed. The tape, winner of the Tokyo Festival Prize in 1983, was notably broadcast on the show Houba Houba by Antoine de Caunes in 1982, then at “Video Danse 1984” at the Center Pompidou.
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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.