One video, «Why I Never Became A Dancer», from 1998, screens in a
side room and shows the awkward but uninhibited Emin stomping and
dancing around an empty
studio to a disco song.
The Los Angeles - based painter Henry Taylor, meanwhile, turns his gaze on the communities he knows — whether the patients at the mental hospital where he once worked or, more recently, people from the streets around his
studio in downtown L.A. Maya Stovall, an anthropologist and choreographer,
dances in front of liquor stores in her neighborhood on the east
side of Detroit, before interviewing local patrons and passersby about the city, the streets around them, and the place of art in their lives.