Amy Greenfield's
DARK SEQUINS
featuring
Andrea Beeman

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
presents

Cinedance in America
March 11, 17, and 31, 2007

curated by Bruce Posner

The representation of dance on film is uniquely different from the experience of live dance on the stage. As the earliest motion picture footage of dancer Annabelle Moore at the Edison Studio makes clear, the art of cinedance requires an imaginative approach to capturing form and movement. From the early twentieth century on, American filmmakers and dancers who undertook this challenge created a host of interesting collaborations, abstract syntheses of shape and motion that were radically different from mere recorded dance performance. A century's worth of invention is revealed in this fourpart survey of American trends from early experimentation, Hollywood productions, the avant-garde, and beyond. Film historian Bruce Posner made the selections, many of which have been culled from Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894–1941, with additional material from Anthology Film Archives, Film-Makers Cooperative, The Museum of Modern Art, Dance Film Archive, and private collections.

For more information, visit www.nga.gov/programs/film.shtm

This program was not organized with the help of DFA but we urge everyone to see this enlightening program. DFA's touring partner Washington Center for the Arts in Olympia will be showing Viva la Danse from the Unseen Cinema series in April, 2007.

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