Proletarian Dance
Bill Aitchison 0:04:50 UK 2012
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A pair of dancers perform a very popular dance ‘The Birdie Dance’ in front of Karl Marx Kopf in Chemnitz with communist theory being spoken in chorus over the music. This music is then rewound a series of times with the dancers also adapting to these reversals. The video spans former East and West Europe, relates to classconsciousness and playfully addresses the deterministic tendencies in Marxist theory.