Dance that only exists on film
A dancer starts a move in a forest and lands it in a living room. Three minutes long, it's routinely taught as a founding work of screendance.
Deren wanted a dance that couldn't be performed on stage, one where the camera and the edit were partners. Talley Beatty's turn carries straight through a cut between locations, so space bends around the dancer.
Screendance, dance made for the camera, is now a field with its own festivals and courses, and Deren's short is usually where its histories begin.
Standard in histories of the form