ABSTRACT

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).

part |1 pages

PART III . SCREEN TES TING

chapter 14|7 pages

A Dancer behind the Lens

chapter 17|5 pages

Dancing and Cameras

chapter 18|5 pages

Frequently Pondered Questions

part |1 pages

PART IV. RECASTING THE DANCE

chapter 21|3 pages

Capturing Dances from the Past

chapter 24|2 pages

The Rainbow Etude

chapter 25|3 pages

Alan Lomax and Choreometrics

part |1 pages

PART VI . TAKING DIRECTIONS

chapter 38|4 pages

Portraits in Celluloid

part |1 pages

PART VI I . FRAMES AND INTERPRETATIONS

part |1 pages

PART VI I I . RESOURCES

chapter 52|4 pages

Video Preservation

chapter 53|3 pages

Whose Rights Are Right?

chapter 55|20 pages

Filmography