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Bridging a Distance: Television and dance

Bridging a Distance: Television and dance BRIDGING A DISTANCE Television and dance - with particular reference to Siobhan Davies's work for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Bridge theDistance, featured in BBC 2's 1986 series Dancemakers ColinNears 'Do you need to cut?' A silence. 'But if you cover it on one wide shot you lose the sense of personal relationship.' Another silence. 'But I thought of the figures in space.' 'In space they'd be too small.' The silences grow. The studio shuffles, with embarrassment, impatience. A compromise is reached. Distances are bridged. We start again. That conversation, on earphones and talkback, between a choreographer Siobhan Davies and a television director, myself, is not untypical. It happened to be the first and only disagreement in a very happy relationship - one of learning, as it always is, for choreographer and director alike. It points, though, to central problems of interpreting dance on television. These are to do with perceptions: of theatre, of the television screen. Both people in that dialogue are concerned with vision, are probably passionate about it. One has given initial birth. The other threatens to present the child in another guise. The creator sees the piece as theatre; the interpreter views it with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dance Research Edinburgh University Press

Bridging a Distance: Television and dance

Dance Research , Volume 5 (2): 43 – Oct 1, 1987

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
©© 1987 Society for Dance Research
ISSN
0264-2875
eISSN
1750-0095
DOI
10.2307/1290623
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Abstract

BRIDGING A DISTANCE Television and dance - with particular reference to Siobhan Davies's work for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Bridge theDistance, featured in BBC 2's 1986 series Dancemakers ColinNears 'Do you need to cut?' A silence. 'But if you cover it on one wide shot you lose the sense of personal relationship.' Another silence. 'But I thought of the figures in space.' 'In space they'd be too small.' The silences grow. The studio shuffles, with embarrassment, impatience. A compromise is reached. Distances are bridged. We start again. That conversation, on earphones and talkback, between a choreographer Siobhan Davies and a television director, myself, is not untypical. It happened to be the first and only disagreement in a very happy relationship - one of learning, as it always is, for choreographer and director alike. It points, though, to central problems of interpreting dance on television. These are to do with perceptions: of theatre, of the television screen. Both people in that dialogue are concerned with vision, are probably passionate about it. One has given initial birth. The other threatens to present the child in another guise. The creator sees the piece as theatre; the interpreter views it with the

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Dance ResearchEdinburgh University Press

Published: Oct 1, 1987

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