Mr. Bojangles' Memory, Og Son of Fire

Two sides of the same memory : the famous tap-dancer Mr Bojangle at new York’s Cotton Club, in the 20’s.

Two versions of the same evocation: the famous tap dancer Mr. Bojangle at the New York Cotton Club in the 1920s. These versions were produced for the Mr. Bojangles’ Memory, Og Son of Fire exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1991 as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris.

This journey through Mr. Bojangles’ memories links up disparate elements that form a universe in which we bump into an aviator, a child, a fat woman who plays a weird kind of baseball, another woman who drifts in space and yet another who has nightmares. A volcano spits out its flames. Human scales are screwed up. Miniscule actors dance on Mr. Bojangles’ hat. Robert Wilson plays on various registers. The music, different in each version, acts as a binding agent for the whole.

Source : Elisabeth Ramus