By Jenn Edwards This year, with COVID wiping out stage performances all over the world, dance on screen has become especially relevant. The medium expands the possibilities of where and how dance can happen. It inflates, and complicates, notions of choreography, as location, cinematography and editing are as crucial to the choreographic process as the
By Jenn Edwards It’s clear from the outset that Aviva is not a conventional cinematic love story. First, right at the beginning, we are introduced to the cameras used, and learn the names of their operators. Next, a woman sitting nude on a bed explains that she is primarily a dancer and choreographer, but that
By Gdalit Neuman When Ohad Naharin, artistic director and principal choreographer of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, instructs his dancers to “groove” during their morning Gaga class, he wants them to tune into their body’s distinct rhythm and follow the flow. Naharin invented Gaga as a means of training his dancers to become “available” to movement