Envisioning Dance: On Film and Video / Edition 1

by Judy Mitoma, ELIZABETH ZIMMER, Dale Ann Stieber, Elizabeth Zimmer

Overview

Virtually everyone working in dance today uses electronic media technology. Envisioning Dance on Film and Video chronicles this 100-year history and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In fifty-three essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two-dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by ninety-three photographs and a two-hour DVD (40 video excerpts).

A project of UCLA – Center for Intercultural Performance, made possible through The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.wac.ucla.edu/cip).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415941716
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/03/2003
Edition description:	Book & CD
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Judy Mitoma is Director of the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performances. She has taught dance and world arts for over 2 decades at UCLA, and is one of the leaders in the study of dance on film. The text editor is Elizabeth Zimmer, a dance writer and editor for the Village Voice, and the DVD editor is Dale Ann Stieber of UCLA.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	Words from the Text Editor	xv
	Guide to the DVD	xvii
	Timeline: A Century of Dance and Media	xix
	Introduction	xxxi
Part I.	Setting the Record
1.	Dance as Television: A Continuing Challenge	2
2.	Music Video as Short Form Dance Film	12
3.	The Kinesthetics of Avant-Garde Dance Film: Deren and Harris	21
1	A Study in Choreography for Camera (2'12")
2	Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (3'49")
4.	The Master and the Movies: Barbara Horgan on George Balanchine's Work with Television and Film	27
5.	Merce Cunningham's Choreography for the Camera	34
3	Channels/Inserts (2'48")
4	Points in Space (2'57")
6.	Program Lists of Dance In America, A Time to Dance, and Arts USA	39
7.	Dance Program List of Alive TV, aka Alive from Off Center	48
Part II.	Looking Back
8.	From Melies to Streaming Video: A Century of Moving Dance Images	54
5	Intolerance (1'48")
6	Air for the G String (2'35")
9.	Ted Shawn's Moving Images	61
7	Kinetic Molpai 1935 (2'4")
10.	Doris Humphrey's Air for the G String	66
6	Air for the G String (2'35")
11.	Optic Nerve: Busby Berkeley and the American Cinema	68
12.	Dancin' in the Rain: Gene Kelly's Musical Films	71
13.	No Maps on My Taps: An Appreciation	78
8	No Maps on My Taps (2'40")
Part III.	Screen Testing
14.	A Dancer behind the Lens	82
9	Husk (3'55")
15.	Wearing Three Hats: Process Notes from a Polymath	89
10	Book of Days (2'53")
11	16 Millimeter Earrings (2'11")
16.	Forsythe and Film: Habits of Seeing	96
12	Kammer/Kammer (4'15")
17.	Dancing and Cameras	103
13	Ghostcatching (2'34")
18.	Frequently Pondered Questions	108
13	Ghostcatching (2'34")
Part IV.	Recasting the Dance
19.	AIDS and the Videotape Fetish: The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS	114
20.	Archiving Dance on Video: The First Generation	118
14	The World of Alwin Nikolais (2')
21.	Capturing Dances from the Past	123
15	Hexentanz by Mary Wigman (1')
16	Hexentanz as reconstructed by Bonnie Oda Homsey (2')
22.	Two Worlds of Balanchine: The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives	126
	Balanchine Interpreters
17	Todd Bolender coaching (1'37")
18	Maria Tallchief coaching (3'52")
23.	The Etudes Project: Using Video to Create a Canon for Contemporary Dance Educators	136
19	Rainbow Etude (2')
24.	The Rainbow Etude	139
19	Rainbow Etude (2')
25.	Alan Lomax and Choreometrics	141
26.	Dance Division of the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center: A Day in the Life	144
Part V.	Seeding the Field
27.	Dancing Matters	150
20	Dancing: Episode 4: Dance at Court (6'26")
28.	A New Place for Dancing	156
21	Boy (4'30")
22	Touched (3'11")
23	Hands (2'28")
24	Le P'tit Bal (3'48")
25	Enter Achilles (3'22")
29.	Europeans Filming New Narrative Dance	163
25	Enter Achilles (3'22")
30.	Northern Exposures: Canadian Dance Film and Video	168
26	Pas de Deux (1'30")
27	Lodela (1'30")
28	Le Dortoir (3'07")
29	Falling Down Stairs (55")
30	The village trilogy (3'07")
31	Risible Chick (1'54")
31.	NHK: A Model for Performing Arts in the Media	176
32.	Taking Tools into My Own Hands: An Argentine Choreographer Finds Her Way to Film	180
32	Sistersister (1')
33.	The Musical Formula: Song and Dance in Popular Indian Cinema	185
34.	Fast Forward	189
Part VI.	Taking Directions
35.	Watching Dance with a Remote in Your Hand	194
33	Dancemaker (6'27")
36.	Editing Dancemaker: Interview with Pam Wise, Editor, A.C.E.	199
33	Dancemaker (6'27")
37.	Accompanying Choreography: A Director's Journey	202
38.	Portraits in Celluloid	207
34	Mothers and Daughters (1'49")
35	Outside In (4'22")
39.	Making Dance Films with Victoria Marks	211
34	Mothers and Daughters (1'49")
35	Outside In (4'22")
40.	Dancing with the Camera: The Dance Cinematographer	218
41.	The Right Place at the Right Time: The Invisible Art of Editing	224
42.	Fishing for Humans: Dance and the Story of Story	228
43.	Breaking the Box: Dancing the Camera with Anna Halprin	232
36	Returning Home (2'15")
44.	The Neophyte's Tale: A Choreographer Works on Alive from Off Center	236
45.	Seeing It Differently: Restaging The Black Dress for Alive from Off Center	241
Part VII.	Frames and Interpretations
46.	The Camera as Choreographer in Documentary and Ethnographic Film	246
37	New England Dances (3'56")
47.	Basing a Dance Film on India's Cultural Heritage	251
38	Circles-Cycles Kathak Dance (3'50")
48.	About the Making of Circles-Cycles Kathak Dance	253
38	Circles-Cycles Kathak Dance (3'50")
49.	Ancestral Memory	256
39	Nursed in Pele (3')
50.	When My Hair Was Brown: The Making of a Dance Documentary	259
51.	Lines from a Filmmaker's Journal	263
40	Deep Hearts (4')
Part VIII.	Resources
52.	Video Preservation	272
53.	Whose Rights Are Right?	276
54.	Resource and Preservation Guide	279
55.	Filmography	287
	Editors and Contributors	307
	Selected Bibliography	319
	Index	325