Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Bad Dancer

What this video is

Released November 2013, 'Bad Dancer' arrived as the lead single from Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band's album Take Me to the Land of Hell, itself a late-career creative resurgence for the then-80-year-old Ono. The video functions as a social document of New York's interconnected creative class at a specific cultural moment — gathering figures from hip-hop, indie rock, public radio, R&B, queer performance art, and…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark intersection of Fluxus-rooted conceptual art, indie-rock, and hip-hop communities in early-2010s NYC. As a dance-adjacent video that ironises the very premise of choreography, it participates in a broader 2013 moment of anti-virtuosity aesthetics in popular music video, while…

The director

American film director, screenwriter, and actor born November 13, 1981, in Santa Monica, California. Began career as a music video director within the Waverly Films collective, directing videos for LCD Soundsystem, Q-Tip, Reggie Watts, Killer Mike, and Yoko…