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).

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PART I . SETTING THE RECORD

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PART I I . LOOKING BACK

chapter 8|7 pages

From Méliès to Streaming Video: A Century of Moving Dance Images

ByDance Images Virginia Brooks

chapter 9|5 pages

Ted Shawn’s Moving Images

ByNorton Owen

chapter 10|2 pages

Doris Humphrey’s Air for the G String

ByErnestine Stodelle

chapter 11|3 pages

Optic Nerve: Busby Berkeley and the American Cinema

ByElizabeth Zimmer

chapter 12|7 pages

Dancin’ in the Rain: Gene Kelly’s Musical Films

ByBeth Genné

chapter 13|3 pages

No Maps on My Taps: An Appreciation

ByLynn Dally

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PART III . SCREEN TES TING

chapter 14|7 pages

A Dancer behind the Lens

ByEiko Otake

chapter 15|7 pages

Wearing Three Hats: Process Notes from a Polymath

ByMeredith Monk

chapter 16|7 pages

Forsythe and Film: Habits of Seeing

ByRoslyn Sulcas

chapter 17|5 pages

Dancing and Cameras

ByBill T. Jones

chapter 18|5 pages

Frequently Pondered Questions

ByPaul Kaiser

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PART IV. RECASTING THE DANCE

chapter 20|5 pages

Archiving Dance on Video: The First Generation

ByDennis Diamond

chapter 21|3 pages

Capturing Dances from the Past

ByBonnie Oda Homsey

chapter 23|3 pages

The Etudes Project: Using Video to Create a Canon for Contemporary Dance Educators

ByContemporary Dance Educators Carolyn Adams

chapter 24|2 pages

The Rainbow Etude

ByDonald McKayle

chapter 25|3 pages

Alan Lomax and Choreometrics

ByJohn Bishop

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PART V. SEEDING THE FIELD

chapter 27|6 pages

Dancing Matters

ByRhoda Grauer

chapter 28|7 pages

A New Place for Dancing

ByBob Lockyer

chapter 29|5 pages

Europeans Filming New Narrative Dance

ByKelly Hargraves

chapter 30|8 pages

Northern Exposures: Canadian Dance Film and Video

ByPhilip Szporer

chapter 31|4 pages

NHK: A Model for Performing Arts in the Media

ByLeonard C. Pronko

chapter 33|4 pages

The Musical Formula: Song and Dance in Popular Indian Cinema

ByLakshmi Srinivas

chapter 34|4 pages

Fast Forward

ByDeirdre Towers

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PART VI . TAKING DIRECTIONS

chapter 35|5 pages

Watching Dance with a Remote in Your Hand

ByMatthew Diamond

chapter 36|3 pages

Editing Dancemaker: Interview with Pam Wise, Editor, A.C.E.

ByJoshua W. Binder

chapter 37|5 pages

Accompanying Choreography: A Director’s Journey

ByMerrill Brockway

chapter 38|4 pages

Portraits in Celluloid

ByVictoria Marks

chapter 39|7 pages

Making Dance Films with Victoria Marks

ByMargaret Williams

chapter 40|6 pages

Dancing with the Camera: The Dance Cinematographer

ByEvann E. Siebens

chapter 41|4 pages

The Right Place at the Right Time: The Invisible Art of Editing

ByGirish Bhargava

chapter 42|4 pages

Fishing for Humans: Dance and the Story of Story

ByMitchell Rose

chapter 43|4 pages

Breaking the Box: Dancing the Camera with Anna Halprin

ByAndy Abrahams Wilson

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PART VI I . FRAMES AND INTERPRETATIONS

chapter 47|2 pages

Basing a Dance Film on India’s Cultural Heritage

ByRobert Gottlieb

chapter 48|3 pages

About the Making of Circles–Cycles Kathak Dance

ByEva Soltes

chapter 49|3 pages

Ancestral Memory

ByMark Eby

chapter 50|4 pages

When My Hair Was Brown: The Making of a Dance Documentary

BySally Sommer

chapter 51|8 pages

Lines from a Filmmaker’s Journal

ByRobert Gardner

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PART VI I I . RESOURCES

chapter 52|4 pages

Video Preservation

ByLeslie Hansen Kopp

chapter 53|3 pages

Whose Rights Are Right?

ByMadeleine Nichols

chapter 54|8 pages

Resource and Preservation Guide

ByLeslie Hansen Kopp

chapter 55|20 pages

Filmography

ByDeirdre Towers