From genetic memory to electronic circuit: displaying body and corporeality in film form of screen dance

This thesis explores the various forms of the body and corporeality represented in the lesserknown film form called screen dance. This work focuses on the dancing body, which is transformed through performance. Two art forms are discussed in relation to each other - dance and film, and their mutual influence and connection. Focus is placed on the cultural context of the West. The thesis does not follow the chronological development of different dance styles; rather, it is divided into four categories of corporeality (the laboring, marked, repressed and disappearing body), which help to classify the different creative approaches to recording the body in motion and its various representations in film. The examined film material dates from the mid-1940's to the present. This work analyzes the various ways in which dancing bodies are portrayed in film, the new types of corporeality emerging in screen dance, and the symbolic and ideological values contained in film portrayals of dancing bodies