Readership: Primary audience: students and scholars in film, media studies, and dance academics, along with film and dance industry and artists. Secondary audience: students and scholars in aesthetics, general readership in dance and film.
Erin Brannigan, Lecturer, University of New South Wales
Erin Brannigan works in dance and film as a journalist, academic and curator. She was the founding Director of ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival and has curated dance screen programs and exhibitions for Sydney Festival 2008, Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 and international dance screen festivals. Erin writes on dance for the Australian arts newspaper, RealTime and lectures in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales.
Preface About the Companion Website Introduction 1.: Modern Movement, Dance, and the Birth of Cinema 2.: The Close-up: Micro-choreographies 3.: Gesture-Dance 4.: Maya Deren: Strategies for Dancefilm 5.: Anarchic Moves, Experimental Cinema 6.: The Musical: Moving Into Dance 7.: Dancefilm as Gestural Exchange Filmmography Bibliography