‘…the function of film, like that of other art forms, was to create experience…It is an organization of ideas in an anagrammatic complex instead of in the linear logic to which we are accustomed…Whether one reads horizontally, vertically, diagonally or even in reverse, the logic of the whole is not disrupted, but remains intact.’
Maya Deren
What is Screen Dance?
Screen Dance as described by the fundamentalist of the movement, Maya Deren, allows, through the mechanics and manipulation of the lens and abstract observation into the collaboration of fine art practices including yet not limiting that of Music, Dance, Art and Film. In most cases Screen Dance removes the chronological narrative that features in many typical commercial movies. The adaptation of the camera as the language driver allows classical art forms and their derived contemporaries to become stronger as a unified art form allowing endless opportunities for the artist to evolve their concept and a greater individualized interpretation from the voyeur.
Composers, Artists and Choreographers have montaged together to create what cannot be conceived in a live performance or to stretch and condense a multi-media form. It is therefore not a necessity for the artist themselves to have the necessary skills in each area of the necessary disciplines can be employed. For example Deren herself, was not a choreographer, her influences in dance come from her assistance to Katherine Dunham, it was her interest in Dance and it’s technique that triggered her need to use it as a language for her ideas.
“Imagine an eye unruled by manmade laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of green? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eyes? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the beginning was the world.”
Stan Brakhage 1978
Irish Modern Dance Theatre's - FALL AND RECOVER
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