Movie: A Study in Choreography for Camera

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Talley Beatty
Talley Beatty

Dancer

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    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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    1945-10-17

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