Abstract
No abstract availableThis article was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 1 (2010), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press.
Highlights
By the time she wrote these words as part of an editor’s note for the fall 1979 issue of Contact Quarterly, Nancy Stark Smith had been practicing falling for seven years
Because screendance is able to visualize that suspension in time as well as space, it may help us to think about aspects of falling off the screen, in situations where gravity really does matter
What I share with my screendance colleagues, whose writing is included in this inaugural issue of The International Journal of Screendance, is an interest in delineating the interconnected spheres of screen technologies and dance
Summary
By the time she wrote these words as part of an editor’s note for the fall 1979 issue of Contact Quarterly, Nancy Stark Smith had been practicing falling for seven years. This essay traces falling—that passage from up to down—on screens and in contemporary dance, by looking at examples of screendance from the last three decades of the twentieth century in order to think about the meaning of falling at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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