A Study in Choreography for Camera
Oct 17 1945
•0h 2m
•Music
Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.
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Talley Beatty
Dancer
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