Dance film

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[1] Dance film is the cinematic interpretation of existing dance works, originally created for live performance. The dance works may be adjusted for the purposes of filming and can involve a wide variety of film techniques.

Depending on the amount of choreograpic and / or presentaional adjustment an original work is subjected to, the filmed version may be considered as Dance for camera [1]. Dance works made specifically for film presentation are know as Dance for camera.

Britain's DV8 Physical Theatre, directed by Lloyd Newson, is well known for its film versions of staged works. The reworking of Enter Achilles (1995) for film in 1996 is a seminal example of Dance for camera. Recently acclaimed works include "The Cost of Living". See http://www.dv8.co.uk/film/film.folder.html

[2] Dance film also involves the creation of choreography that can only exist in the medium of film or video.

Australia's The Physical TV Company, directed by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman, is well known for creating original works that are a sophisticated meeting of the possibilities of cinema with those of dance. Dance films such as "Rubberman Accepts The Nobel Prize" (2001), "No Surrender" (2002), and "Down Time Jaz" (2003) are differing examples of the possibilities of this approach involving comedy, visual effects, drama, and animation. The Physical TV Company's explorations are taken even further in their latest award-winning short feature "Thursday's Fictions" (2006). See http://www.physicaltv.com.au