Experimental Dance Films

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The Very Eye of Night
Maya Deren's well-known film features dancers who seem to drift among the stars, filmed in negative. Music by Teijo Ito. Made in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet students under the direction of Antony Tudor.
• By Maya Deren. (1958, 15 mins, Print from Grove Press)

Pas De Deux
Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren were filmed in slow motion performing Ludmilla Chiriaeff's choreography of an adagio to panpipe music.
• By Norman McLaren. (1968, 14 mins, Print courtesy Dance Film Archive)

Ballet Adagio
“Asaf Messerer's show-stopping lyric duet, ‘Spring Water,' danced in minimal costumes by Canadian artists David and Anna-Marie Holmes, is beautifully filmed in slow-motion....” --John Mueller
• By Norman McLaren. (1971, 10 mins, color, Print courtesy Dance Film Archive)

Unremitting Tenderness
“This film is less concerned with the relation of film to dance than with the creation of a cinematic equivalent to the dance....” --R. Bruce Elder
• By R. Bruce Elder. (1977, 9 mins, color, Print courtesy of filmmaker)

Dune Dance
Explores effect of sand and camera manipulations on dance movement.
• By Carolyn Brown. (1980, 40 mins, color, Print courtesy Dance Film Archive)

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