Hail the new puritan

Hail the new puritan is a new film by Charles Atlas produced for Channel Four in Great Britain. Michael Clark, the internationally acclaimed twenty three year-old 'rock-star' of the ballet world plays the leading role. Shot entirely on location in London. Hail the new puritan, follows Clark through an imaginary day and vividly evokes the vibrant styl of young London in the 1980´s--- Its fashion, its music, its night life. Employing a documentary treatment with a fictional script, Atlas presents a- day- in-the-life of a dancer. The film begins with a dream sequence and the following morning. During this very active day there are scenes which show him in an interview with a dancer critic, in the dressing room among the others dancers, in a surreal skit with members of post-punk band THE FALL, in a cementery being filmed for an underground featurette , in the flat of friends, gtting changed to go out, in an erotic encounter in a mirrored bedroom, in a nightclub leading th pack, and at home alone dancing to exhaustion. At the heart of 'Hail the new puritan' are ten principal dance sequences which are set in rehearsal, photo session, performance and nightclub scenes. Atlas weaves the dancing into a colorful city symphony, a time-capsul of London today.