Still aus A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1945. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir
A Study in Choreography for Camera was made by Talley Beatty as dancer, and by me as director and photographer. I had felt that in most dance films the restiveness of the camera – with its closeups, its views from the wings, etcetera – served merely to destroy choreographic patterns which had been carefully conceived for a theatre stage space and a fixed-front audience. In this film, on the other hand, cinematographic space – the entire world – becomes itself an active element of the dance rather than an area in which the dance takes place. And the dancer shares, with the camera and cutting, a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. This results in a film dance which could not be performed except on film.
Maya Deren: Magic is New, Mademoiselle, January 1946
- #Title: A Study in Choreography for Camera
- #Director: Maya Deren
- #Choreography: Talley Beatty
- #Year of Production: 1945
- #Duration: 00:03:00
- #Dance and Acting: Talley Beatty
- #Camera: Hella Heyman, Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
- #Editing: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren