Research Catalog

Title

Envisioning dance on film and video / Judy Mitoma, editor ; Elizabeth Zimmer, text editor ; Dale Ann Stieber, DVD editor ; Nelli Heinonen, associate editor ; Norah Zuňiga Shaw, assistant editor.

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitoma, Judith
• Zimmer, Elizabeth
• Stieber, Dale Ann
• Heinonen, Nelli
• Shaw, Norah Zuňiga

Description

xxxii, 336 pages : illustrations, portraits; 28 cm +

Summary

Accompanying DVD consists of a variety of dance performances, chiefly excerpted from longer film or video performances.

Subjects

• Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
• Choreography
• Videodance
• Cinedance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Judy Mitoma -- Words from the Text Editor / Elizabeth Zimmer -- Guide to the DVD / Dale Ann Stieber -- Timeline: A Century of Dance and Media / Virginia Brooks -- Introduction / Judy Mitoma -- Pt. I. Setting the Record -- 1. Dance as Television: A Continuing Challenge / Jac Venza -- 2. Music Video as Short Form Dance Film / Larry Billman -- 3. The Kinesthetics of Avant-Garde Dance Film: Deren and Harris / Amy Greenfield -- 4. The Master and the Movies: Barbara Horgan on George Balanchine's Work with Television and Film / Robert Greskovic -- 5. Merce Cunningham's Choreography for the Camera / David Vaughan -- 6. Program Lists of Dance In America, A Time to Dance, and Arts USA / Jac Venza -- 7. Dance Program List of Alive TV, aka Alive from Off Center / Alyce Dissette -- Pt. II. Looking Back -- 8. From Melies to Streaming Video: A Century of Moving Dance Images / Virginia Brooks -- 9. Ted Shawn's Moving Images / Norton Owen -- 10. Doris Humphrey's Air for the G String / Ernestine Stodelle -- 11. Optic Nerve: Busby Berkeley and the American Cinema / Elizabeth Zimmer -- 12. Dancin' in the Rain: Gene Kelly's Musical Films / Beth Genne -- 13. No Maps on My Taps: An Appreciation / Lynn Dally -- Pt. III. Screen Testing -- 14. A Dancer behind the Lens / Eiko Otake -- 15. Wearing Three Hats: Process Notes from a Polymath / Meredith Monk -- 16. Forsythe and Film: Habits of Seeing / Roslyn Sulcas -- 17. Dancing and Cameras / Bill T. Jones -- 18. Frequently Pondered Questions / Paul Kaiser -- Pt. IV. Recasting the Dance -- 19. AIDS and the Videotape Fetish: The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS / David Gere -- 20. Archiving Dance on Video: The First Generation / Dennis Diamond -- 21. Capturing Dances from the Past / Bonnie Oda Homsey -- 22. Two Worlds of Balanchine: The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives / Nancy Reynolds -- 23. The Etudes Project: Using Video to Create a Canon for Contemporary Dance Educators / Carolyn Adams -- 24. The Rainbow Etude / Donald McKayle -- 25. Alan Lomax and Choreometrics / John Bishop -- 26. Dance Division of the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center: A Day in the Life / Madeleine Nichols -- Pt. V. Seeding the Field -- 27. Dancing Matters / Rhoda Grauer -- 28. A New Place for Dancing / Bob Lockyer -- 29. Europeans Filming New Narrative Dance / Kelly Hargraves -- 30. Northern Exposures: Canadian Dance Film and Video / Philip Szporer -- 31. NHK: A Model for Performing Arts in the Media / Leonard C. Pronko -- 32. Taking Tools into My Own Hands: An Argentine Choreographer Finds Her Way to Film / Silvina Szperling -- 33. The Musical Formula: Song and Dance in Popular Indian Cinema / Lakshmi Srinivas -- 34. Fast Forward / Deirdre Towers -- Pt. VI. Taking Directions -- 35. Watching Dance with a Remote in Your Hand / Matthew Diamond -- 36. Editing Dancemaker: Interview with Pam Wise, Editor, A.C.E. / Joshua W. Binder -- 37. Accompanying Choreography: A Director's Journey / Merrill Brockway -- 38. Portraits in Celluloid / Victoria Marks -- 39. Making Dance Films with Victoria Marks / Margaret Williams -- 40. Dancing with the Camera: The Dance Cinematographer / Evann E. Siebens -- 41. The Right Place at the Right Time: The Invisible Art of Editing / Girish Bhargava -- 42. Fishing for Humans: Dance and the Story of Story / Mitchell Rose -- 43. Breaking the Box: Dancing the Camera with Anna Halprin / Andy Abrahams Wilson -- 44. The Neophyte's Tale: A Choreographer Works on Alive from Off Center / David Rousseve -- 45. Seeing It Differently: Restaging The Black Dress for Alive from Off Center / Ellen Bromberg -- Pt. VII. Frames and Interpretations -- 46. The Camera as Choreographer in Documentary and Ethnographic Film / John Bishop -- 47. Basing a Dance Film on India's Cultural Heritage / Robert Gottlieb -- 48. About the Making of Circles -- Cycles Kathak Dance / Eva Soltes -- 49. Ancestral Memory / Mark Eby -- 50. When My Hair Was Brown: The Making of a Dance Documentary / Sally Sommer -- 51. Lines from a Filmmaker's Journal / Robert Gardner -- Pt. VIII. Resources -- 52. Video Preservation / Leslie Hansen Kopp -- 53. Whose Rights Are Right? / Madeleine Nichols -- 54. Resource and Preservation Guide / Leslie Hansen Kopp -- 55. Filmography / Deirdre Towers -- Selected Bibliography / Karen Washburn.

Call Number

*MGRL 02-1008

ISBN

• 0415941709
• 9780415941709

OCLC

1160292601

Title

Envisioning dance on film and video / Judy Mitoma, editor ; Elizabeth Zimmer, text editor ; Dale Ann Stieber, DVD editor ; Nelli Heinonen, associate editor ; Norah Zuňiga Shaw, assistant editor.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.

Type of Content

text

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

unmediated

video

Type of Carrier

volume

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Local Subject

Cinedance.

Videodance.

Added Author

Mitoma, Judith, editor.

Zimmer, Elizabeth, editor.

Stieber, Dale Ann, editor.

Heinonen, Nelli, editor.

Shaw, Norah Zuňiga, editor.

Research Call Number

*MGRL 02-1008 [Text]

*MGZIDVD 5-2775 [DVD]

*MGRL 02-1008 [Text]