Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan

Charles Atlas' Hail the New Puritan (1986) will be on view at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver from October 3, 2025 through January 25, 2026.

Hail the New Puritan depicts a fictionalized day in the life of the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark as he and his company prepare for a performance of his 1984 work New Puritans. Atlas uses the inherently theatrical nature of dance as the departure point for an exploration of the unstable boundary between fantasy and reality, a boundary further tested by the work’s inclusion in a regular program of dance documentaries on British public television in 1986. 

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the CAG website.