Photography for Dance Recording

Abstract

Potentially, still and motion photography can aid dance research in the same way as tapes aid musicology. If reality is still far from the ideal, that is due to costs, cumbersome mechanisms, and requirements of special skills. Nevertheless, such a visual record can be so valuable as to merit photography when permissible and possible. In the field I have used three cameras: one for slides, one for monochrome stills, and a 16 mm. Bolex. Here are a few observations, so that others may profit from my boners and my successes