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Balance, Shoes

Filmmakers have three impossible challenges. How do you film lovemaking? How do you film dynamics of a group at a table? How do you film dance?

This last is particularly interesting from a viewer's perspective. Because the others are so familiar, you just need a prompt to recall how it was for you. But dancers need to do work for you that you could never do for yourself. They both create and convey, but how to convey on film?

Aronofsky did well with 'Black Swan,' because he is able to add into the mix his invented bodycam. Others have done well with invasive cameras, usually when the choreography is a fight or battle. But ballet still remains a challenge.

Here is a filmmaker that uses a pretty stationary camera, several for each event. Some cameramen are instructed to focus on body parts as they move. Others do long and middle shots. There is much footage of rehearsals and performances so they can be mixed. Mirrors are often handy and used. Sound is collected at least in two places and in the edits is shifted. The final product is edited brilliantly, dare I say as a dance? The shifts in time and intimacy work, in part b