Filmmakers Spent Six Months Tracking Down A Woman Who Appeared In The Promo For David Bowie's 1983 Hit Let's Dance For A New Documentary About The Video.
The clip was shot at a bar in Australia's Outback and features an Aboriginal man and woman dancing to the song as bemused onlookers watch.
A new movie charting Bowie's trip to Australia for the making of the promo is due to premiere next month (Oct15), and the team behind the documentary spent six months Down Under trying to locate Joelene King, one of the dancers.
Ed Gibbs, who dreamed up the concept of the documentary with colleague Rubika Shah, tells Mojo magazine, "Our starting point was the Aboriginal couple in the video, Joelene King and Terry Roberts. We couldn't find a single trace of them - nothing had ever been written about them. We were surprised, and saddened, that no one had ever sought them out. Six months later, we tracked down Joelene King."
King insists she is proud to be associated with the famed music video, which helped promote the notion of cultural integration, saying, "It lets the world know that Australia's got a black history, and this history's alive."
Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under will open in London on 10 October (15), and Shah and Gibbs are now planning to shoot an extended version after receiving support from the legendary musician's aides.
Gibbs adds, "Bowie's team has been very helpful to us. We haven't asked yet whether the man himself has seen it or not - but his people seem to like where we're coming from and what we'd like to do with the project. We are hoping he and (wife) Iman might read about it."
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