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.

[1] DV8 Physical Theatre are well known for their film versions of staged works. The reworking of Enter Achilles (1995) for film in 1996 is a seminal example of Dance for camera. see http://www.dv8.co.uk/film/film.folder.html

Related articles

• Dance for camera
• Choreography
• cinematography
• Dance in film - Films that contan dance sequences but are not dance works per se
• Musical film
• dance
• List of dance style categories

External links

• DV8 (http://www.dv8.co.uk/)