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cover of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography

Still Moving

Between Cinema and Photography

Karen Beckman and Jean Ma, eds.

Duke University Press, 2008

In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in contemporary art practice. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, the contributors to this volume address issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves through and against one another.

Foregrounding the productive tension between stasis and motion, two terms inherent to cinema and to photography, the contributors trace the shifting contours of the encounter between still and moving images across the realms of narrative and avant-garde film, photography, and installation art. Still Moving suggests that art historians and film scholars must rethink their disciplinary objects and boundaries, and that the question of medium specificity is a necessarily interdisciplinary question. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors take up that challenge, offering new ways to think about what contemporary visual practice is and what it will become.

Contributors: George Baker, Rebecca Baron, Karen Beckman, Raymond Bellour, Zoe Beloff,Timothy Corrigan, Nancy Davenport, Atom Egoyan, Rita Gonzalez, Tom Gunning, Louis Kaplan,
Jean Ma, Janet Sarbanes, Juan A. Suárez

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cover of Still Moving: Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing

Still Moving

Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing

Sonia York-Pryce

Intellect Books, 2025

A candid look at how evergreen dancers sustain their craft, navigate aging, and challenge the dance world’s obsession with youth.

What does it mean to keep dancing against the tide of ageism? Still Moving offers an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of senior professional dancers, artists who continue to perform and create, defying expectations well beyond the conventional limits of a dancer’s career. Through in-depth conversations with twenty performers ranging from 41 to 109 years old, Sonia York-Pryce reveals stories of resilience, adaptation, and unwavering passion for movement.

These dancers, hailing from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, challenge ingrained biases in the dance industry while embodying the limitless potential of an aging body. Their experiences inspire not only younger dancers wondering about longevity in their careers but also anyone invested in the intersections of creativity, aging, and well-being.

Still Moving is not simply a book about dance; it engages in a broader cultural dialogue about ageism and the evolving nature of artistic expression. For dancers, educators, researchers, and those in fields such as somatic practices, gerontology, and social sciences, this book champions a future where dance is not bound by age but enriched by experience.
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