Reel dance explosion: Bodies in motion captured by the camera's lens stretch limits of both art forms at innovative festival
The Toronto Star, Oct. 18, 2002
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002
This article discusses how the dance film genre is increasingly borrowing from animation and computer film techniques in new, experimental ways. It also speaks of how the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video expands our notion of dance films and performance dance. The article talks with Deepa Mehta about her fusion of dance styles in Bollywood/Hollywood and the specifics of choreography for film with Mehta's choreographer David Connolly. The piece also touches on war and martial arts dances, the history and anthropology of dance by way of Marie Brodeur's Dance of the Warrior and profiles several other films, showing the variety of the festival's programming.
ITEM 2002.189 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Bollywood/Hollywood – Deepa Mehta
Dance of the Warrior – Marie Brodeur
Motion Control – Liz Aggiss
Bollywood/Hollywood – Dave Connolly
Bollywood/Hollywood – Douglas Koch
I can almost – Malgorzata Nowacka
I can almost – Tim Sponk
I can almost – Gregory Nixon
Peep Show – Robert DeLeskie
Peep Show – David Danzon
Peep Show – Sylvie Bouchard
Urban Soles – Tanya Maryniak
Urban Soles – Kimberley Timlock
Urban Soles – itap
Pretty Big Dig – Anne Troake
Why Won't You Dance? – Michael Downing
Why Won't You Dance? – Deborah Pollitt
Why Won't You Dance? – Ken Mitchell
Why Won't You Dance? – Bill MacDonald
Satin Rouge – Raja Amari
Subways – Daniel Conrad
Subways – Crystal Pite
Hit and Run – CoisCeim Dance Theatre
Motion Control – David Anderson
Liquid Bodies: An Evening of Experimental Dance Cinema, Movement and Performance – Loop Collective