Shirley Clarke

American director Shirley Clarke planned to become a choreographer, staging her first dance recital at age 17. But the intricate movements of her dancers led Ms. Clarke to explore the possibilities of capturing those movements on celluloid-- which in turn led her into film directing. At the time she started out (1953), Ida Lupino was Hollywood's sole female mainstream film director, but Clarke was never interested in the mainstream. She filmed several dancing short subjects for a deliberately limited audience, then applied her choreographer's... Full Shirley Clarke Biography

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