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Screendance Reading List

(Dance Film - Media Arts and Dance – Dancetech)

 

Compiled from the Media Arts and Dance List

With contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Anna Brady Nuse, Deirdre Towers, Douglas Rosenberg,
Karen Pearlman, Paige Starling Sorvillo, Richard James Allen,
Simon Fildes, Yukihiko Yoshida

 

(Please send additional suggestions to PhysicalTV@bigpond.com)

 

BOOKS

 

  • Aggiss, Liz and Cowie, Billy, Anarchic Dance (Routledge, 2006). Comprising a book and DVD-Rom, this package is a visual and textual record of the work of Divas Dance Theatre. The DVD-Rom features extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion Control (first premiered on BBC2 in 2002), rare video footage of their punk-comic live performances as The Wild Wigglers and reconstructions of Aggiss' solo performance in Grotesque Dancer. These films are cross-referenced in the book, allowing readers to match performance and commentary as Aggiss and Cowie invite a broad range of writers to examine their live performance and dance screen practice through analysis, theory, discussion and personal response.
  • Arnheim, Rudolf, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Originally published in 1954, the 1974 edition includes chapters on balance, shape, form, growth, space, light, color, movement, dynamics and expression. 508 pages with extensive notes, illustrations, photoss, and bibliography. ISBN: 0-520-02613-6 Published by University of California Press.
  • Auslander, Philip, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture.  Available through Amazon.  An analysis of how media has effected live arts.
  • Billman, Larry, Film Choreographers and Dance Directors: An Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia, with a History and Filmographies, 1893 through 1995 (McFarland, 1997).  ISBN 0-89950-868-5.  Available through Amazon. 181 photographs, appendices, bibliography, 664pp. A comprehensive reference work to 970 choreographers who worked in nearly 3,500 films. For each, there is a biography, a description of their choreographic style and a listing of their stage, television, music video, nightclub, concert and film credits. The author Larry Billman is the Director of Entertainment for Tokyo DisneySea.
  • Bordwell, David, On the History of Film Style 
  • Bruce Block, The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media. Available through Amazon. Explores the "science" of visual presentation, from perspective to tone color and rhythm.  Available through Amazon.
  • Candy, Linda, and Edmonds, Ernest, Explorations in Art and Technology (Springer-Verlag, London, 2002). ISBN: 1-85233-5459.
  • Carroll, Noel, and Bordwell, David, Post-Theory
  • Carroll, Noel, Mystifying Movies 
  • Carroll, Noel, Theorizing the Moving Image 
  • Delillo, Don, Mao 2
  • Dinkla, Söke, and Leeker, Martina (eds), Dance and Technology/ Tanz und Technologie (in German and English), Moving towards Media Productions - Auf dem Weg zu medialen Inszenierungen. Including DVD 440 pages, ISBN: 3-89581-079-7. To order, visit the following website: www.buch.de
  • Dodds, Sherril, Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. www.Rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Dying_Swans_and_Madmen.html
  • Gere, Charlie, Art Time and Technology
  • Ingold, Tim, Lines: A Brief History
  • McLean, Adrienne L., Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
  • McPherson, Katrina, Making Video Dance (Routledge, available through Amazon).  A ’how-to’ manual for choreographers, dancers and students who want to make dance films by a based artist. The guide combines practical help with aesthetic discussion in an anecdotal and accessible style. This manual includes exercises to be used inside, or outside the classroom, a production diary, interviews with leading practitioners on both sides of the camera, and a glossary of terms. 
  • Murch, Walter, In the Blink of an Eye.  Available through Amazon.  Short, engaging, and completely inspiring. Not just about editing, but art-making and artistic practice in general.
  • Nichols, Bill, Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (U.C. Berkeley Press, 2001.) ISBN: 0-520-22732-8.  Available through Amazon.  Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an independent cinema have inspired filmmakers for over fifty years.  Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) ranks among the most widely viewed of all avant-garde films. The eleven essays gathered here examine Maya Deren's writings, films, and legacy from a variety of intriguing perspectives. Some address her relative neglect during the rise of feminist film theory; all argue for her enduring significance. The essays cast light on her aesthetics and ethics, her exploration of film form and of other cultures, her role as (woman) artist and as film theorist. Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde also includes one of the most significant reflections on the nature of art and the responsibilities of the filmmaker ever written--Deren's influential but long out-of-print book, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, in its entirety.
  • Ondaatje, Michael, The Conversations, Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Barnes and Noble, 2002). Much more than a book about editing, these erudite and engaging conversations range over topics including sound, music, dynamics, the body, physics, history, lenses and directing to name a few.    
  • Pearlman, Karen, Cutting Rhythms, Shaping the Film Edit (Focal Press, 2009). Available from Focal Press.
  • Quinz, Emanuele(ed), Digital Performance (Anomos, Paris), 408pp.
  • Solnit, Rebecca, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Penguin Books, 2004.)
  • Sorvillo, Paige Starling, Blindsight, San Francisco
  • Spielman, Yvonne, Video: The Reflexive Medium
  • Stam, Robert and Millar, Toby, A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell Press)
  • Stam, Robert and Millar, Toby, Film and Theory (Blackwell Press). This book explores the fascinating relationship between artist and technologist through studies of innovative projects that push the boundaries of digital art. The research sheds new light on the nature of interaction between people and computers and provides insight into the characteristics of environments in which creativity can be enhanced. In doing so, it presents a case for organisations to develop strategies for offering environments in which collaborative, sustainable partnerships can thrive. What emerges is a story of new visions and new forms in a field that is set to transform traditional norms in both art and technology as we move through the 21st Century. 
  • Zimmer, Elizabeth, and Mitoma, Judy, and Stieber, Dale Ann, Envisioning Dance on Film and Video (Routledge, 2002). ISBN: 0-415-94170-9. This book chronicles the 100-year history of dance for the camera and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In 53 essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two- dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by 93 photographs and a 2-hour DVD (40 video excerpts).

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

 

  • Ausdance, the Australian Dance Council, Conference Proceedings:Dance Rebooted: Initializing the Grid, July 1-4, 2005, Deakin University, the Australian Dance Countil - Ausdance Inc, ISBN 1 87525516 8(refereed).
  • Ausdance, the Australian Dance Council, Shifting Sands: Dance in Asia and the Pacific,  2006
  • Filmdance - From 1890-1983, 4 essays, 19 artist statements, plus all the films shown at the 1983 Filmdance Festival; $20. Make checks to Kinetic Awareness Center.  Mail to: Elaine Summers, 537 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.
  • McPherson, Katrina and Fildes, Simon (eds) Opensource {Videodance} : Symposium 15th - 19th June 2006 Findhorn, .  Available through Lulu.
  • Vokoun, Jessica (ed), Screendance: The State of the Art Proceedings, PDF download: http://www.dvpg.net/screendance2006.pdf  Numerous essays on Screendance from a wide range of authors. Screendance Conference directed by Douglas Rosenberg.

ARTICLES/REVIEWS


  • Birringer, Johannes, and Nicolai, Klaus, and Dumke, Thomas (eds),"Telematic Performance in Virtual Interactive Environments","TELE - PLATEAU - Die Welt als Environment [The World as Environmet]", TMA Hellerau, 2007


WEBSITES


UNPUBLISHED THESES


  • Allen, Richard James, Out Of The Labyrinth Of The Mind:
    Manifesting A Spiritual Art Beyond Dualism    , University of Technology, Sydney, 2004
  • Pearlman, Karen, Cutting Rhythms: Ideas about the shaping of rhythm in film editing, University of Technology, Sydney, 2006
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