Dance with Camera
b. 1963
Eleanor Antin, Charles Atlas, Natalie Bookchin, James Byrne and Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, Shirley Clarke, Bruce Conner, Thierry de Mey, Tacita Dean, Maya Deren, Ed Emshwiller, William Forsythe, Amy Greenfield, Hilary Harris, Oliver Herring, Luis Jacob, Mike Kelley, Joachim Koester, Elad Lassry, Sharon Lockhart, Babette Mangolte, Norman McLaren, Frank Moore and Jim Self, Bruce Nauman, Kelly Nipper, Sidney Peterson and Hy Hirsh, Yvonne Rainer, robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner, Uri Tzaig, Flora Wiegmann, and Christopher Williams. In the 1937 musical film Shall We Dance , Fred Astaire's character falls in love with a flip book, or rather, the woman depicted on its pages: a popular dancer played by Ginger Rogers. "That's grace, that's rhythm," he swoons over the photographs. The camera, it almost need not be stated, captures things that move. Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled artists to record bodies moving in space and time. The exhibition begins with films from the 1960s, a period when associations between dancers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists flourished at Judson Dance Th…
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