Like in poetry, this fragmentation allows one thing to become another … things to be borrowed, exchanged, shared, reversed, layered, in order to transform and rebuild surprising new meanings.
This type of Dance on Film or Photography is a type of poetry of the objects.
It is what Maya Deren called the Vertical Film (as opposed to the Horizontal Film which we are used to):
- Where the How is more important than the What
- Where sensations and impressions are more important than sequences of plausible actions
- Where there is a co-habitation of extremes – complete stillness and extreme motion
(Erin Brannigan explains it very well in her book DanceFilm: Choreography and the Moving Image, 2011, Oxford University Press)