ABSTRACT
Ulrike Hanstein’s book chapter discusses It’s Aching Like Birds, an 11-minute film that the Chicago-based performance group Goat Island developed together with filmmaker Lucy Cash in 2001. The experimental film is based on the performance piece It’s an Earthquake in My Heart. For the performance, the members of Goat Island used a video recording to learn short dance movements from Pina Bausch’s dance theatre piece Café Müller. Examining the acts of transfer from a dance piece to a video recording, to a performance, to a film, the book chapter explores the ways in which moving image documentations’ compositional temporal forms reorganize the sound and sight, the duration, the pace, and the scale of embodied relations and physical events.
