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Over My Head
1984 · Video (color, sound)
4:04 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Toni Basil
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982
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Toni Basil is an American performer and choreographer whose practice fuses experimental dance with pop music and visual performance. Emerging in the postwar period, she has worked across multiple disciplines, combining movement vocabulary with vernacular sound and visual forms in ways that resist singular categorization. Her work challenges the division between concert dance, commercial performance, and fine art contexts.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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