Ballet Dance Pictures And Images
The kinship amid the exercise of dance and the technologies of representation has excessively affected emotionally artists since the advent of film. Dancers, choreographers, and managers are growingly drawn to screendance, the exercise of capturing dance as a moving effigy mediated by a camera. While the interest in screendance has grown in importance and influence amid artists, it has until now flown beneath the academic radar. Emmy-nominated conductor and auteur Douglas Rosenberg’s groundbreaking book considers screendance as both a visual art form as well as an extension of innovative and post-modern dance without drawing artificial boundaries amid 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 inherent collaborative art form. Drawing on psycho-analytic, literary, materialist, queer, and feminist modes of analysis, Rosenberg explores the relationships amid camera and subject, conductor 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 utilize to dance on film.
Rosenberg also discusses the audiences and venues of screendance and the tensions among mercantile 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 amongst art, which is in general curated, and dance, which is in general programmed. Rosenberg explores the cultural significances 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.
- Published on: 2012-05-15
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Review
“Doug Rosenberg’s genealogy of dance on screens masterfully elucidates the critical issues of this emergent field. A must-read for practitioners and theorists alike.”–
Ann Cooper Albright, author of Choreographing Difference, Traces of Light, and Modern Gestures
“What happens to awkward, lumpy bodies in the procedure of mediation and what is the physicality of the mediating technology? This book is a window to the complexities of discourses in Screendance and topics such as the mediated body, screen as internetlocation and originality in the age of reproduction which will be key to 21st century culture.”–Claudia Kappenberg, International Journal of Screendance, University of Brighton UK
“Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image by Douglas Rosenberg performs the salutary task of introducing to one another a number of domains of discourse that ought to recognise regarding each other. Screendance is placed in the context of modern artmaking, filmmaking, cultural theory, and performance studies while Rosenberg simultaneously proposes the reciprocal significance of screendance to those practices. This is a generous book that opens up the horizons of the speech of screendance and much else.”–Noel Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
About the Author
Douglas Rosenberg is an artisan and scholar working at the intersection of performance and media. He is globally recognized as a pioneer in screendance both as conductor and as a theorist. He organized the initial global symposium on screendance and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Screendance.
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