Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas, who was the dance company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978 until 1983. In a series of short pieces choreographed specifically for the temporal and spatial characteristics native to video, and performed for the video camera, Cunningham’s gestures are multiplied, disembodied, overlayed and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. The “Blue Studio refers to the color (“chroma key blue’) that allows the dancers and objects to be “keyed in” to achieve radical manipulations and transformations of the video space. With image processing by Nam June Paik and a disjunctive audio collage that includes the voices of Jasper Johns and John Cage, Blue Studio is an iconic videodance that is “Part One” of the equally iconic video Merce by Merce by Paik.