From the Archives of Modern Art

In this work of documentary fiction an archivist attempts to put together the lost years of Eleanor Antinova the oncecelebrated black ballerina of Diaghilevs Ballets Russes when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters autobiography and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls the slippery nature of the self