Screendance
Screendance, also called dance film, dance for camera or videodance, is a hybrid art form in which choreography is made for the camera and often exists only on film or video, rather than simply recording a stage show. Maya Deren's 1945 film A Study in Choreography for Camera, with dancer Talley Beatty, is a pioneering example: it moves one dancer through a forest, an apartment and a museum hall.
Works may be created for the screen or adapted from stage pieces, as with DV8 Physical Theatre's 1996 film of Enter Achilles. Today the form lives in dedicated festivals and organisations, such as Dance Camera West in Los Angeles and Cinedans in Amsterdam, which also runs an online platform and talent development. In France, a vidéodanse showcase has been held at the Centre Pompidou since 1982.
Sources
- Maya Deren, A Study in Choreography for Camera (The Culturium)
- The dancer camera pas de deux (Bath Spa University research repository)
- Dance film (Wikipedia, English)
- Vidéodanse (Wikipedia, French)
- Videodanza (Wikipedia, Spanish)
- Танцевальный фильм (Wikipedia, Russian)
- 舞蹈電影 (Wikipedia, Chinese)
- Dance Camera West (official site)
- Cinedans (official site)
Organisations connected with this dance
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