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In choreographer Laurie McLeod's film Yes, She Said, a bride, suddenly panicked, dives into a swimming pool to hide from her wedding and is filmed underwater, gown billowing. In choreographer Pooh Kaye's animated Sticks on the Move, a motley cast glides and skitters down a New York street on miraculously moving lumber. In Pupa, dancer/videographer Cathy Weis shows a human figure wrapped in a cocoon of streaming fabrics that fall upward as she struggles to free herself.
What would be impossible onstage is exactly what choreographers, filmmakers, and media artists seek to create in dance for the camera. They are free to choose any setting imaginable, to defy the physics of gravity, and to show imaginary interactions with the elements. They create images of pure fantasy and use new technologies to multiply dancers or reduce them to lines and brush strokes. Onstage, film or video can interact with live performance. And, traveling easily, dance on screen is shown in cinemas and museum installations.
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