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7 - VIVA LA DANCE
The Beginnings of Ciné-Dance
(1894-1946 - 155 minutos)
Dance and film have shared the aspiration to creatively sculpt motion and
time. Some of the first films ever made featured Annabelle's skirt dance,
hand-painted in glowing colors. Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis'
innovations found their way into Diana the Huntress (1916) and The Soul of
the Cypress (1920). Highly cinematic renditions of dance evolved in Stella
Simon's H nde (1928), Hector Hoppin's Joie de vivre (1934), and Busby
Berkeley's "Don't Say Goodnight" from Wonder Bar (1934). In counterpoint,
cin -dances by Mary Ellen Bute, Douglass Crockwell, Oskar Fischinger, Norman
McLaren, Ralph Steiner, and Slavko Vorkapich dispensed with actual dancers
in favor of color, shape, line, and form choreographed into abstract
light-play.
33 films:
7 Annabelle Dances and Dances (1894-1897)-W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise &
James White
Davy Jones' Locker (1900)-Frederick Armitage
Neptune's Daughters (1900)-Frederick Armitage
A Nymph of the Waves (1900)-Frederick Armitage
Diana the Huntress (1916)-Charles Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller (excerpt)
The Soul of the Cypress (1920)-Dudley Murphy
Looney Lens: Pas de deux (1924)-Al Brick
H nde: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Z rtlichen Geschlechts (Hands: The Life
and Loves of the Gentler Sex) (1928)-Stella Simon & Miklos Bandy
Mechanical Principles (1930)-Ralph Steiner
Tilly Losch in Her Dance of the Hands (c. 1930-33)-Norman Bel Geddes
2 Eisenstein's Mexican Footage (1931)-Sergei Eisenstein (excerpts)
Oramunde (1933)-Emlen Etting
Hands (1934)-Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke
Joie de vivre (1934)-Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin
Wonder Bar: "Don't Say Goodnight" (1934)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
Dada (1936)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
Escape (1938)-Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth
An Optical Poem (1938)-Oskar Fischinger
Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome (c. 1940s)-Slavko Vorpapich
NBC Valentine Greeting (1939-40)-Norman McLaren
Stars and Stripes (1940)-Norman McLaren
Tarantella (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Spook Sport (1940)-Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Norman McLaren
Danse Macabre (1922)-Dudley Murphy
Peer Gynt (1941)-David Bradley, starring Charlton Heston (excerpt)
Introspection (1941/46)-Sara Kathryn Arledge