Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures

268 Pages·2016·2.505 MB·English

by  Telory D. Arendell, Ruth Barnes (eds.)

Dance's Duet
with the Camera
Motion Pictures
Edited by
Telory D. Arendell & Ruth Barnes
Dance’s Duet with the Camera

Telory D. Arendell • Ruth B arnes
Editors
Dance’s Duet with
the Camera
Motion Pictures
Editors
Telory D . Arendell Ruth Barnes
Missouri State University Missouri State University
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ISBN 978-1-137-59609-3 ISBN 978-1-137-59610-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59610-9
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REFACE
We spoke fi rst about the possibility of this manuscript in a backyard full
of grass, bugs, and a fervent desire to let fi lm and dance speak in a stage
conversation that gives equal weight to each of these media. Our collabo-
ration follows on the heels of Douglas Rosenberg and his 2012 Oxford
University Press publication, S creendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image .
And yet, whereas Rosenberg approaches this duet from a more fi lmic
perspective, we ourselves are more fi rmly located in the dance space. As
should be clear in our own text, a choreographer who employs video for
production makes physical movement primary to the creation of all prod-
ucts. Film is therefore an equal partner in this dance, but it is most defi -
nitely a dance we present rather than a screened image. We say this with all
due respect to Rosenberg, whose efforts are duly noted and appreciated as
seminal contributions to the fi eld. We want merely to offer another set of
perspectives as practitioners and scholars committed to dance’s contribu-
tion to the duet that is relatively recent in dance and fi lm, both on stage
and on the printed page.
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Missouri State University Graduate College, Provost, and Department
of Theatre and Dance have provided fi nancial and moral support.
Faculty and peers at the University of California, Riverside, Dance
Department stimulated and challenged my understanding of screen dance,
thereby encouraging me to explore a new path of research.
Dance Base (Edinburgh), 87 Dance Productions (North Carolina), the
dancers, and composer Dmytro Morikyt devoted time, space, and creative
energy that helped me make new objects for study.
– R.B.
To my extended family.
– T.D.A.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: Dance and Film as Siblings 1
Telory D . Arendell
Screendance: A Short History 2
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media 3
Dancefi lm: Choreography and the Moving Image 5
Rosenberg’s Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image 7
TAKES as Multimodal Dance 8
Dance and Film in Conversation 1 0
Site/Sight and the Body 10
Movement Beyond the I/Eye 1 1
Querying Praxis 12
Bodies, Spaces, Camera 13
New Technologies: Dance as 3D’s Ultimate Agent 1 5
Part I Site/Sight and the Body 1 7
2 Location, Location, Location: Dance Film and Site-Specifi c
Dance 19
Melanie Kloetzel
Origin Stories and Parallel Aims 2 0
A New Context for the Dancing Body 22
Altering Perspectives on the Body (in Place) 2 7
Democratizing Genres 3 2
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