Rhythm in Light

Rhythm in Light

1934, USA, 16mm, b/w, music by Grieg’s Anitra’s Dance, 5 min.

In collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth, premiered at Radio City Music Hall, 1935. In Rhythm in Light, the artist uses visual materials as the musician uses sound. Mass and line and brilliant arabesques from the inexhaustible imagination of the artist perform a dance to the strains of Edward Grieg’s music. The visual and aural materials are related both structurally and rhythmically - a mathematical system being used to combine the two means of expression.

Review in Time Magazine, December 3, 1934