Video Space: A Site for Choreography

Since the advent of the film art form, the author finds, cinema and dance have engaged in an almost unbroken courtship, each appropriating techniques and styles from the object of affection. A hybrid form, video dance, has resulted; its recording medium may be thought of as its site. The architecture of this site provides a distinctive context for the critique of dances created for it. The collaborative process necessary to realize the potential of video dance is found to require a reconstruction of the dancing body as unencumbered by the restraints of time and space.