Dance’s Duet with the Camera

Dance’s Duet with theCamera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by variousauthors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover arange of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film onstage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images and videodance askin to site-specific choreography. This book explores the ways in which earlypractitioners such as Loïe Fuller and Maya Deren began a conversation betweenmedia that has continued to evolve and yet still retains certain unansweredquestions. Methodology for this conversation includes dance historicalapproaches as well as mechanical considerations. The camera is a partner, adisembodied portion of self that looks in order to reflect on, to mirror, orto presage movement. This conversation includes issues of sexuality, race, andmixed ability. Bodies and lenses share equal billing.