Join us for a special screening in relation to our current exhibition Carolyn Lazard Long Take, which responds to the legacy of dance for the camera.
In the 1960s, dance for the camera emerged as an experimental choreographic form that encouraged artists, dancers, and choreographers to collaborate to push both moving image and dance to their formal limits. Artists Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Maya Deren, Yvonne Rainer, and others, reimagined the camera lens as more than just a means to record, instead transforming it into a stage and an audience. This created a unique space and more accessible space for dance, whereby practitioners questioned not only where a performance occurred by how an audience might experience it.
The screening will span almost fifty years of movement and be followed by a conversation by Rachael Davies and Rebecca Bellantoni who will unpack the nuance of this experimental form, it’s relation to their own practices and more broadly how it has impacted art, access, and contemporary dance.