Dance¿s Duet with theCamera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by variousauthors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover arange of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film onstage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images and videodance askin to site-specific choreography. This book explores the ways in which earlypractitioners such as Loïe Fuller and Maya Deren began a conversation betweenmedia that has continued to evolve and yet still retains certain unansweredquestions. Methodology for this conversation includes dance historicalapproaches as well as mechanical considerations. The camera is a partner, adisembodied portion of self that looks in order to reflect on, to mirror, orto presage movement. This conversation includes issues of sexuality, race, andmixed ability. Bodies and lenses share equal billing.

Chapter 1. Introduction; Telory D. Arendell.Part I.Site/Sight and the Body.- Chapter 2. Location, Location, Location; Melanie Kloetzel.- Chapter 3. The Feminist Body Reimagined in Two Dimensions; Cara Hagan.- Chapter 4. Hollywood Cinematic Excess; Frances Hubbard.Part II.Movement Beyond the I/Eye.- Chapter 5. Loïe Fuller and the Poetics of Light, Colour, and Rhythm; Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.- Chapter 6. Naked Came I/Eye; Peter Sparling.Part III.Querying Praxis.- Chapter 7. Theoretical Duet; Telory D. Arendell and Ruth Barnes.- Chapter 8. Wrestling the Beast... and Not Getting Too Much Blood on Your Skirt; Heather Coker.- Chapter 9. Turning Around the Gaze in the Age of Technological Proliferation; Ruth Barnes.Part IV.Bodies, Spaces, Camera.- Chapter 10. Videodance; Angela Kassel.- Chapter 11. Maya Deren; Telory D. Arendell.- Chapter 12. Valentine for Dance Historians; Carol-Lynne Moore.Part V.New Technologies.- Chapter 13. Moving In(To) 3D; Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar.- Chapter 14. Conclusion; Ruth Barnes.