Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 601
Date: 1990-01-01
Subject: Modern dance; Rock music; Interviews; New York (N.Y.); Times Square (New York, N.Y.); Amusement parks; Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Copyright Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation; Karole Armitage and Charles Atlas

Clip Description
This episode of "New Television" features two works by Charles Atlas - "Put Blood in the Music" and "From an Island Summer."

Put Blood in the Music In "Put Blood in the Music," Charles Atlas presents a documentary-style work where critics, artists, and musicians are interviewed about the New York music scene and its many influences.

From an Island Summer In "From an Island Summer" Karole Armitage and two other dancers perform her upbeat movements in two distinct locations - Coney Island and Times Square, New York.

Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features two works by Charles Atlas - "Put Blood in the Music" and "From an Island Summer."

Put Blood in the Music In "Put Blood in the Music," Charles Atlas presents a documentary-style work where critics, artists, and musicians are interviewed about the New York music scene and its many influences.

From an Island Summer In "From an Island Summer" Karole Armitage and two other dancers perform her upbeat movements in two distinct locations - Coney Island and Times Square, New York.

Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.

As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/New267.HTML