Dance’s Duet with the Camera

1. Introduction: Dance and Film as Siblings
Telory D. Arendell

Part I. Site/Sight and the Body

2. Location, Location, Location: Dance Film and Site-Specific Dance
Melanie Kloetzel

3. The Feminist Body Reimagined in Two Dimensions: An Exploration of the Intersections Between Dance Film and Contemporary Feminism
Cara Hagan

4. Hollywood Cinematic Excess: Black Swan’s Direct and Contradictory Address to the Body/Mind
Frances Hubbard

Part II. Movement Beyond the I/Eye

5. Loïe Fuller and the Poetics of Light, Colour, and Rhythm: Some Thoughts on the Making of fugitive l(i)ght

Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

6. Naked Came I/Eye: Lights, Camera and the Ultimate Spectacle
Peter Sparling

Part III. Querying Praxis

7. Theoretical Duet
Telory D. Arendell, Ruth Barnes

8. Wrestling the Beast… and Not Getting Too Much Blood on Your Skirt: Integration of Live Performance and Video Projection
Heather Coker

9. Turning Around the Gaze in the Age of Technological Proliferation; or, Things Are Seldom What They Seem
Ruth Barnes

Part IV. Bodies, Spaces, Camera

10. Videodance: How Film Enriches the Dance
Angela Kassel

11. Maya Deren: Leaping Across Frames and Framing Leaps
Telory D. Arendell

12. Valentine for Dance Historians: Astaire on Film
Carol-Lynne Moore

Part V. New Technologies: Dance as 3D’s Ultimate Agent

13. Moving In(To) 3D
Philip Szporer, Marlene Millar

14. Conclusion: Where the Gaze Lands
Ruth Barnes

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Dance, Performing Arts, Screen Performance