Dance's Duet with the
Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various
authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a
range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on
stage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images and videodance as
kin to site-specific choreography. This book explores the ways in which early
practitioners such as Loïe Fuller and Maya Deren began a conversation between
media that has continued to evolve and yet still retains certain unanswered
questions. Methodology for this conversation includes dance historical
approaches as well as mechanical considerations. The camera is a partner, a
disembodied portion of self that looks in order to reflect on, to mirror, or
to presage movement. This conversation includes issues of sexuality, race, and
mixed ability. Bodies and lenses share equal billing.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Telory D. Arendell.- Part I. Site/Sight and the Body.- Chapter 2. Location, Location, Location; Melanie Kloetzel.- Chapter 3. The Feminist Body Reimagined in Two Dimensions; Cara Hagan.- Chapter 4. Hollywood Cinematic Excess; Frances Hubbard.- Part II. Movement Beyond the I/Eye.- Chapter 5. Loïe Fuller and the Poetics of Light, Colour, and Rhythm; Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.- Chapter 6. Naked Came I/Eye; Peter Sparling.- Part III. Querying Praxis.- Chapter 7. Theoretical Duet; Telory D. Arendell and Ruth Barnes.- Chapter 8. Wrestling the Beast... and Not Getting Too Much Blood on Your Skirt; Heather Coker.- Chapter 9. Turning Around the Gaze in the Age of Technological Proliferation; Ruth Barnes.- Part IV. Bodies, Spaces, Camera.- Chapter 10. Videodance; Angela Kassel.- Chapter 11. Maya Deren; Telory D. Arendell.- Chapter 12. Valentine for Dance Historians; Carol-Lynne Moore.- Part V. New Technologies.- Chapter 13. Moving In(To) 3D; Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar.- Chapter 14. Conclusion; Ruth Barnes.
