A new biography by Mark Alice Durant, Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera (Saint Lucy Books, 2022) not only captures the particulars of Deren’s tragically brief and deeply influential life ...

That’s the story told in “Maya Deren: Choreographed ... an enthusiastic photographer. Three years later, mother and child returned to Syracuse; Deren enrolled—at sixteen—at Syracuse ...

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance Review | 'The Haitian Footage: Maya Deren Unedited' By Gia ... pokes at the boundaries between art and life.

Maya Deren In March 2025, Arkadin is exploring Female Filmmakers on the Edge, and perhaps no filmmaker surveyed the boundaries of cinematic possibility more exquisitely than Maya Deren. Surrealistic, ...

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made ...