Guildford, United Kingdom

Dance, Film and Theatre

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.surrey.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. (See the glossary of motion picture terms.)
Dance
But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day,
Is half so fine a sight.
Sir John Suckling, A Ballad Upon a Wedding, Stanza 8.
Film
The mass is a matrix from which all traditional behavior toward works of art issues today in a new form. Quantity has been transmuted into quality. The greatly increased mass of participants has produced a change in the mode of participation.
Walter Benjamin, “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction,” Illuminations (1968), p. 239.
Dance
This dance of death which sounds so musically
Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.
Anonymous, On the Danse Macabre of Saint-Saëns.
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