Between Dominance and Absence. Dance (with the Media) in Laterna Magika

The study focuses on the form of dance in productions of Laterna magika from its historical beginnings up to the modern era at the turn of the millennium. Dance was one elementary elements present in multimedia productions of this experimental scene since the Expo World Exhibition in 1958 in Brussels. The dance changed its position according to a different creative starting points - from an insignificant mediator linking individual scenic elements through dominant role in the period of ballet productions at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, to the the total absence of dance in the era of so-called drama programs. Throughout Laterna magika's history, dance appeared in a variety of dance styles and formats: from revision motion sketches and pantomime etudes, through technically demanding dance figures as well as master de pas de deux. Dancer on stage worked as a useful linker or mediator between the film image and the living stage events. The study examines the intensity of the dance present on the stage, the way it is he developed a dialogue between the dancer and the film medium, what was the image of dance presented in film sequences of theatrical productions, to which relocations there was. In particular, it attempts to look at different conceptual starting points intermedia relationship of dance and film on the scene of Laterna magika.

Keywords: Laterna magika, dance, choreography, body, film, intermediality