At the French court of Louis XIV, patterns traced on the floor were an important part of formal dances; drawings of these pathways, with signs added to indicate the steps used, were the basis of the first important, widely used dance notation system.
In a defining scene Dee (Bertie Carvel) declaims a geometry proof backed by a drumbeat that hints at Elizabethan dances, while drawings and figures swirl around him on scrims.
(Dunning) 'DANCING IN BLACK' (Today, and Monday through Thursday) This free exhibition of African-American dance photography and drawings by Mansa K. Mussa, Richard Barclit and Bruce Harman celebrates Black History Month.
For the dance, Mr. Spiegelman's drawings are animated and projected on a small screen (perplexingly small); behind it, dancers perform in silhouette or step in front like something out of "The Purple Rose of Cairo".
There is ample evidence of Rauschenberg's involvement with artists whose efforts were primarily time-based: musical scores, dance notations and drawings by the composers John Cage and Morton Feldman and the choreographers Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton, as well as paintings by Alex Hay, active as a dancer in the 1960s.
Another of his signatures was the "airmail dance," a set of drawings depicting various dance poses.
This exhibition reveals yet another dimension to his genius as it explores his study of dance and movement in drawings and small sculptures of terracotta and plaster.
Jacolby Satterwhite creates surreal 3D animations that combine his dance performances with animated drawings of everyday objects and inventions by his mother, Patricia Satterwhite.
Light playfully dances across Green's drawings, creating a simultaneously dreamy and hyperrealistic effect.
Imagine Mondrian's Pier and Ocean paintings animated, or Hans Hartung's charcoal drawings doing a dance.
