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 once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's 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.