THE HISTORY OF DANCE ON FILM AND VIDEO (II): MAYA DEREN- DANCE FILMS

Title

THE HISTORY OF DANCE ON FILM AND VIDEO (II): MAYA DEREN- DANCE FILMS

Subject

"In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a limitless, cinemato-graphic space. Moreover, he shares, with the camera, a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. This is, in other words, a dance which can exist only on films The movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Being a film ritual, it is achieved not in spatial terms alone, but in terms of a time created by the camera."
- Maya Deren on A Study in Choreography for the

Description

"In her approach we have the beginnings of a virtually new artform of 'choreocinema' in which the dance and the camera collaborate on the creation of a single work of art."
NETHERLANDS
Talley Beatty: A Study in Choreography for the Camera 1945 2'30'',
Frank Westbrook: Ritual in Transfigured Time 1945-6 16',
Chao-li Chi: Meditation on Violence 1948 13',
Antony Tudor: The Very Eye of Night 1952-55 15',
50' total run time
Dance films

Creator

BEATTY TALLEY, WESTBROOK FRANK, CHI CHAO-LI, TUDOR ANTONY

Publisher

Editions a voir

Date

1997

Format

VHS

Language

ENGLISH

Identifier

CHOD0212

Collection

Citation

BEATTY TALLEY, WESTBROOK FRANK, CHI CHAO-LI, TUDOR ANTONY, “THE HISTORY OF DANCE ON FILM AND VIDEO (II): MAYA DEREN- DANCE FILMS,” WPB, accessed March 29, 2024, https://tpb.worm.org/items/show/12696.

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