Screendance

Inscribing the Ephemeral Image
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-977262-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

The relationship between the practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. Dancers, choreographers, and directors are increasingly drawn to screendance, the practice of capturing dance as a moving image mediated by a camera. While the interest in screendance has grown in importance and influence amongst artists, it has until now flown under the academic radar. Emmy-nominated director and auteur Douglas
Rosenberg's groundbreaking book considers screendance as both a visual art form as well as an extension of modern and post-modern dance without drawing artificial boundaries between the two. Both a history and a critical framework, Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image is a new and important look at
the subject.

As he reconstructs the history and influences of screendance, Rosenberg presents a theoretical guide to navigating the boundaries of an inherently collaborative art form. Drawing on psycho-analytic, literary, materialist, queer, and feminist modes of analysis, Rosenberg explores the relationships between camera and subject, director and dancer, and the ephemeral nature of dance and the fixed nature of film. This interdisciplinary approach allows for a broader discussion of issues of hybridity
and mediatized representation as they apply to dance on film.

Rosenberg also discusses the audiences and venues of screendance and the tensions between commercial and fine-art cultures that the form has confronted in recent years. The surge of screendance festivals and courses at universities around the world has exposed the friction that exists between art, which is generally curated, and dance, which is generally programmed. Rosenberg explores the cultural implications of both methods of reaching audiences, and ultimately calls for a radical new way
of thinking of both dance and film that engages with critical issues rather than simple advocacy.

Zielgruppe

Academics and students interested in dance and film, dancers, directors, festival programmers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenberg, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Inscribing Hybridity
Chapter 1: Archives and Architecture
Chapter 2: Mediated Bodies: From Photography to Cine-Dance
Chapter 3: Recorporealization and the Mediated Body
Chapter 4: The Advent of Video Culture
Chapter 5: The Bride is Dance
Chapter 6: Excavating Genres
Chapter 7: Curating the Practice
Chapter 8: Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, or Connoisseurship in Screendance
Chapter 9: Toward a Theory of Screendance
Chapter 10: Negotiating the Academy
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosenberg, Douglas
Douglas Rosenberg is an artist and scholar working at the intersection of performance and media. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer in screendance both as director and as a theorist. He organized the first international symposium on screendance and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Screendance.

Douglas Rosenberg is an artist and scholar working at the intersection of performance and media. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer in screendance both as director and as a theorist. He organized the first international symposium on screendance and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Screendance.