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Jim Tyler’s Dance Group Jim Tyler, Bonnie Jo Bainbridge, Paul Magloff, Penny Shaw, Beverly Brown - 1967 |
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Moving from Boston to New York City was simple. All I needed was just one small suitcase, my camera, photography portfolio, and associated
darkroom vitals. Usually, locating an inexpensive apartment in Manhattan was challenging. However, my friend Harris Barron knew people in the city.
Harris was my friend and mentor … but that’s another story.
Following Harris’ advice, I contacted movie maker Jack Hirschfeld. His wife, Beverly, was a dancer who was choreographing a show … but that’s another story. She knew dancers Paul Magloff, John (never recorded his last name), and Jim Tyler. The guys needed an apartment mate in their one-bedroom flat. The no-doors “bedroom” was assigned to me. There was a hallway, with a toilet closet at the end. There also was one, large room, which, besides the cots for the guys, contained a modest refrigerator, gas stove, kitchen sink, and right next to it, a bath tub. The tub was covered by a piece of plywood, hinged to the wall. When flipped up, one could bathe. When flipped down, it was used for food preparation. The roughing-it atmosphere felt like when I worked at children’s summer camps. Except, in camp, the showers were outdoors, and not in the mess hall. Soon after I moved in, Jim choreographed a dance show, in which Paul performed. Jim arranged for a free performance at the Calvary Episcopal Church on 277 Park Ave. S., near Gramercy Park, on August 31, 1967. The Calvary Church parish, founded in 1832, included the “Renwick Gem” Schoolhouse, which was designed by James Renwick Jr. in 1867. The Gem was a small building north of the church. It had a large interior space, about 27 feet between the columns, which were designed to hold up the heavy slate roof, without the use of exterior buttresses. While originally built as a theater, after a short time, it became the Church’s Sunday School. By the time of Jim’s dance concert, the Gem had become a gym, and used for shows, once again.
Here is the view from the back door of the Calvary Church’s “Renwick Gem.”
On August 29, 1967, I took photos of Jim Tyler, Bonnie Jo Bainbridge, Paul Magloff, Beverly Brown, and Penny Shaw, while they rehearse Jim’s dance concert. Jim, Bonnie and Penny had been students of Erick Hawkins, who was known for a fluid, seemingly effortless style of movement.
When Jim Tyler left the apartment in September 1967, he moved to Amsterdam, Holland, to work with Pauline de Groot. Both of them had studied with Erick Hawkins. Later, Bonnie, also a Hawkins alumni, would join them for a time. In the winter of 1968, Bonnie Jo Bainbridge performed in my short movie “LEGGO,” a “pixilation” animation, in which she magically glides through a waterfront cityscape without moving her legs. “Demian’s Film & Video Projects”
These Days
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Body-Mind CenteringHer focus is on an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body, and consciousness. She has authored books, which include “Sensing, Feeling, and Action,” as well as many videos, including “Embodying Cellular Consciousness Through Touch and Movement.”
Pauline de Groot
Penny Shaw
Donald McDonagh (February 6, 1932 - December 10, 2019)
Erick Hawkins (April 23, 1909 - November 23, 1994)
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