ABSTRACT
A piece of performed choreography is an ephemeral thing, existing only fully in the moment of performance and then as a disintegrating memory in the minds of those who witnessed the event.
Filming, usually in the form of video, is one of the ways by which we try to preserve what we have made, but a film can go only so far in recording the event of a performance. A film of a performance is like a photograph of a painting, both reflect the thing they reproduce but remain nevertheless their own object, separate from the object they record and providing only a specific and restricted experience of the original.
