1. Filmed Choreography Conjures Kelly (in the Rain) and Astaire (Head to Toe).
- Author
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MaCaulay, Alastair
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MOTION pictures , *PHOTOGRAPHIC film , *DANCE - Abstract
An attractive woman dances alone, arching her spine and stretching her limbs in expansive yearning. Suddenly a man's hand, from behind, touches her shoulder, her spine, her arm. We know he answers her longing. Yet we also know she's alone. The man is her imagination. Or is he ours? This scene occurs in ''The Rain,'' a 2007 film directed and choreographed by Pontus Lidberg of Sweden that was shown at the New Museum on Friday and Saturday as part of a Dance on Camera presentation of new shorts. (Though Mr. Lidberg's work may not be known in New York, he worked in August with Christopher Wheeldon and his Morphoses company in Vail, Colo.) Memorably ''The Rain'' illustrates what filmed dance can say that staged dance cannot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2008