DANCE FILMS

by Maya DEREN

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A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA 1945, sil., b/w, 2'30", Choreography and dance: Talley Beatty. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME 1945-46, sil., b/w, 16' With Deren, Rita Christiani, Frank Westbrook,Anaïs Nin, MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE 1948, b/w, 13', with Chao Li Chi. Chinese flute and Haitian drum arr. Maya Deren, THE VERY EYE OF NIGHT 1952-55, b/w, 15' Choreography: Anthony Tudor. With students of Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. Music by Teiji Ito.

"In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a limitless,cinemato-graphic space. Moreover, he shares, with the camera, a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. This is,in other words, a dance which can exist only on films The movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Being a film ritual, it is achieved not in spatial terms alone, but in terms of a time created by the camera."
Maya DEREN on A Study in Choreography for the Camera, 1945

"In her approach we have the beginnings of a virtually new artform of 'choreocinema' in which the dance and the camera collaborate on the creation of a single work of art."
John Martin, New York Times, 1946

INFORMATIONS

artist(s)	Maya DEREN
Year	1945-1955
publishing date	0
publisher(s)	Re:voir
DVD format	PAL
zone	0 (region free)
running time (mins)	47
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