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Der Eintänzer
Rebecca Horn, 1978, 45'

The film Der Eintänzer originated in Rebecca Horn's New York studio at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Broadway. All presented performers have their individual history: the ballet teacher and her students, the twins, the young man who wants to play on a mini grand piano, the blind old man who wants to learn to dance the tango and the Japanese cook who play the flute… even the black table which, seduced by the music, starts dancing a 'mechanical' tango: “his fast movements give him the presence of an extraordinary gentleman, of an Eintänzer.

Rebecca Horn
Born 1944 in Bonn
Lives and works in Berlin and Paris
Education: Art study at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg

Starting from performances with body-related sculpture Horn begins with their transformation into the medium of film and video in the late-1960s. While her earlier films are pure documentations of her performances, the later works (like The Eintänzer) have the character of feature films. The objects used in her performances and films become independent works in the 1980s and are being shown in renowned museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Musée d'art Moderne Paris, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York or the Tate Gallery in London. Since 1989 the often distinguished artists teaches at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

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