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And quickly, with just one light in a small classroom studio, while one of his friends filmed with a rented 8mm camera, they performed four of Gregory's pieces.
An abstract piece where the mimes move in lockstep to a piece of music that speeds up increasingly.
They did Jungle, where a woman cuts her way through the jungle and wrestles a snake.
Why did it feel so important to film these?
And only a few weeks after that, Gregory left the Soviet Union through a loophole that granted some Jewish people passports to travel to Israel.
He flew directly to Vienna, then New York City, where a refugee organization put him up in a rundown hotel.
And it was on Fifth Avenue in New York that he saw his first American mime.
From that moment on, Gregory has reinvented himself so many times.
At 88, he's an accomplished painter, art teacher, and a master sculptor.
You can see his piece, The Commuters, in Newark Penn Station.