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| | village voice > dance > Dance on Camera Festival 2006 by Deborah Jowitt |
 | | At this year's Dance on Camera Festival, you can see idiosyncratic collaborations between dancers and filmmakers, documentaries, historic footage, film translations of stage works—in short, everything the camera can do to and for dance. |
 | | The seductions, rites, intriguing dances, and proto-feminist rebellions involved in this tale of a 1920s temple dancer of southern India (considered the property of the small-time village ruler) seem to unfold at the rate of a cut every two seconds, often for no discernible reason. |
 | | Onstage, dancers flail in and out of the frame, but in the studio, the camera wanders, resting on whatever interests the director (dancers working on material alone or in small groups), now and then regarding Bausch—who regards her busy colleagues, smiles occasionally, writes in a notebook, and says not a word. |
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