The moving image and the moving body together on the screen. The history of dance on film is actually quite extensive, especially among the experimental communities. And considering dance’s elaborate history with experimentation itself, we found it fitting to devote a night to the various ways the camera has depicted the contortions and undulations of the human figure. Dance of all kinds, used in films in all sorts of ways.
PROGRAM
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) — Maya Deren (2m)
Hand Movie (1966) — Yvonne Rainer (5m)
Coyote (2010) — Joel Potrykus (22m)
AntiBodies (excerpt) (2018) — Sabine Gruffat (2m)
Take Off (1972) — Gunvor Nelson (10m)
Sing To Me (2018) — Wes Swing & Cat Kneip (7m)
Quadrant 1+2 (1982) — Samuel Becket (13m)
Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (excerpt) (1982) — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (12m)
Swimming in Your Skin Again (2014) — Terrance Nance (21m)
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Screened at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative on July 18, 2019
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