The great 3D quantum leap

For a decade, from 1973 to 1983, Charles Atlas was the film-maker-in-residence for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, collaborating with the choreographer and his dancers to create a new way of translating dance onto the screen. So when the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis was looking to commission new works for its major exhibition on Cunningham opening in February 2017, one of the artists it turned to was Atlas. The result will be Tesseract, perhaps one of the most technically ambitious danc