Dance’s Duet with the Camera : Motion Pictures / edited by Telory D. Arendell, Ruth Barnes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arendell, Telory D., Editor.

Barnes, Ruth., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Performing arts.

Theater.

Motion picture acting.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Screen Performance.

Local Subjects:

Dance.

Theatre and Performance Arts.

Screen Performance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVII, 263 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on stage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images and videodance as kin to site-specific choreography. This book explores the ways in which early practitioners such as Loïe Fuller and Maya Deren began a conversation between media that has continued to evolve and yet still retains certain unanswered questions. Methodology for this conversation includes dance historical approaches as well as mechanical considerations. The camera is a partner, a disembodied portion of self that looks in order to reflect on, to mirror, or to presage movement. This conversation includes issues of sexuality, race, and mixed ability. Bodies and lenses share equal billing.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction; Telory D. Arendell

Part I. Site/Sight and the Body

Chapter 2. Location, Location, Location; Melanie Kloetzel

Chapter 3. The Feminist Body Reimagined in Two Dimensions; Cara Hagan

Chapter 4. Hollywood Cinematic Excess; Frances Hubbard

Part II. Movement Beyond the I/Eye

Chapter 5. Loïe Fuller and the Poetics of Light, Colour, and Rhythm; Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

Chapter 6. Naked Came I/Eye; Peter Sparling

Part III. Querying Praxis

Chapter 7. Theoretical Duet; Telory D. Arendell and Ruth Barnes

Chapter 8. Wrestling the Beast… and Not Getting Too Much Blood on Your Skirt; Heather Coker

Chapter 9. Turning Around the Gaze in the Age of Technological Proliferation; Ruth Barnes

Part IV. Bodies, Spaces, Camera

Chapter 10. Videodance; Angela Kassel

Chapter 11. Maya Deren; Telory D. Arendell

Chapter 12. Valentine for Dance Historians; Carol-Lynne Moore

Part V. New Technologies

Chapter 13.Moving In(To) 3D; Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar

Chapter 14. Conclusion; Ruth Barnes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137596109

1137596104