Dance with Camera| Event Title: | Dance with Camera | | Event Date: | November 24, 2009 [ view all dates and times ] | | Hours: | 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm | | Description: | Dance with Camera is an exhibition and a screening program that explores a crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. The exhibition features art works in film, video, and still photography
that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists to record bodies moving in time and space. Screenings elaborate the show’s theme with iconic dance films, ranging from Busby Berkeley’s Hollywood musicals to Maya
Deren’s avant-garde films. Dance with Camera, on view September 11, 2009-March 21, 2010, in ICA’s first floor gallery, spans seventy years of art and film, and features over thirty artists and filmmakers between its exhibition
and screening program.
The art works in Dance with Camera show the camera lens as not merely a recording device, but stage and audience simultaneously. The camera creates a unique space for dance. In some instances, choreography is created
for the specific space of the camera; in others it is created in editing. The camera, unlike the stage, allows close-ups that bring us near the performer. Editing is used to compress time and create structure, and even to transform
relatively static performers into dancers. Still photography freezes time while also expanding the notion of dance as time-based. Dance itself is a mode to explore broader themes of narrative, structure, metaphor and abstraction.
| | More Information: | http://www.icaphila.org | | Location: | Institute of Contemporary Art
Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania
118 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289 |
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