Dance DVDs
Dance Video from Dance Camera West:

Dance film for your dance collection - available on sDVD. One of the first and finest collections of dance film and video. Dance for the camera, performance choreography and documentary titles. Includes the 2002 Dance Camera West Dance Film Collection.

			In the Mirror of Maya Deren
			Deemed “Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body,” Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Using locations from the Hollywood hills to Haiti in the 1940s and ’50s, Deren made such mesmerizing films as AT LAND, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and her masterpiece, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON.
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			Wim Vandekeybus Dance & Short Fiction Films Wim Vandekeybus has always had a great fascination for film. Not only has it been an important source of inspiration for his dance performances, film and video are also important media in which Vandekeybus expresses his intense imagination. Through his passion, he has created thirteen films over the past twenty years.
			by Wim Vandekeybus, Laura Aris Alvarez, Elena Fokina, and Jozef Frucek (DVD)
				$75.00 *
			DV8 Physical Theatre
			DV8 (Dance and Video 8)’s work since 1986 has rejected abstraction in dance and concentrates on connecting meaning to movement and in addressing current social issues. Director Lloyd Newson has had a dynamic impact on contemporary dance by challenging the traditional aesthetics and forms which pervade most modern and classical dance.
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			Ballets Russes By directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
			This engaging documentary tells the straightforward history of the renowned Ballets Russes troupe from 1929 until its demise in 1962, providing ample commentary, knee-slapping wit and whimsy, as well as tidbits on ballet aesthetics, backstage gossip and clip after clip of rare footage.
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			BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE The new film by Sundance Award-winning director Heather Lyn MacDonald, follows the most unlikely troupe of tap dancers you’re likely to meet, the Silver Belles, five former showgirls who danced at the Apollo and other legendary Harlem venues in the 1930s-40s.
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			JEWELS
			George Balanchine’s rare and precious ballet, Jewels performed by the Paris Opera Ballet with outstanding performances.
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			CURSIVE II
			Cursive II is a masterpiece by Lin Hwai-min, choreographer and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The superb Cloud Gate dancers, trained in meditation, Chi-Kung and martial arts, fierce as striking thunder or soft as flowing ink on rice paper.
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			DANCE FOR CAMERA
			Dance For Camera is a collection of the most outstanding examples of dance film selected from festivals in Europe and North America including Dance Camera West, and winners of over 17 international awards.
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			DANCE FOR CAMERA 2
			Andreas Denk, Andrea Bol, Klaus Jürgens, and Mischa van Dullemen (DVD - Mar 25, 2003)
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			LAST DANCE
			by Maurice Sendak, Vic Losick, and Mirra Bank (DVD - Nov 23, 2004)
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			LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS: AMELIA
			D. Lang (DVD - 2006)
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		BOOKS
			ENVISIONING DANCE ON FILM AND VIDEO
			Judy Mitoma, Elizabeth Zimmer, and Dale Ann Stieber (Paperback - Jul 3, 2003)
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			MAKING VIDEO DANCE
			Katrina McPherson (Kindle Edition - Mar 20, 2007) - Kindle Book
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