Transcript of “The Movement of Composition: Dance and Writing”
00:00 Title Screen: sound of keyboard typing, “The Movement of Composition” and “Kathryn Perry” appear over a moving image of a ceiling spinning, as the image fades so does the typing and a classical guitar begins to play, continuing throughout the piece.
00:04 Video Clip: A young, female ballerina slowly stretches, her back curving into an arch, fade to
00:09 Video clip: In this clip from a 1960s video, several young children in playclothes dance and skip in a circle outside, shaking rattles and moving their bodies and heads to a rhythm, fade to
00:16 Video clip: A whirling dervish, a man dressed in long flowing white robes, spins in slow circles with his arms raised, fade to
00:23 Video clip: A black and white clip of many formally-dressed couples dancing in circles in a ballroom, fade to
00:27 Video clip: A black and white clip with white letters representing the alphabet imposed over a piling-up of newspapers, fade to
00:30 Video Clip: A black and white clip of a man in a suit writing at a typewriter, fade to
00:33 Video Clip: The rapid movement of blank notebook pages being flipped through, fade to
00:34 Video Clip: A black and white clip of a man feeding paper into a printing press, one page after another, fade to
00:41 Video Clip: A clip of a computer screen and words being typed into a word document, sped up: “We are always writing, always moving, always dancing and composing ourselves, recomposing ourselves, decomposing even, even whe we aren’t, even as we are sleeping…” Then these words are erased until only the phrase “We are always” remains on the screen, fade to
00:50 A black screen and one word in white letters appears: “Moving.”
00:52 A black screen and a question in white letters appears: “How do we distinguish between the physical and conceptual work of composing?”
00:58 Credits. See link to bibliography.