- Title: Dancelines Step In Time Girls
- Date: 17th August 1989
- Summary: CHOREOGRAPHER YOLANDE SNAITH EXPERIMENTS WITH THE USE OF NARRATIVE IN FILM TO EXPLORE THE LIVES OF THREE DIFFERENT WOMEN WHO HAVE LIVED IN THE SAME FLAT IN ROTHERHITHE DURING THE PAST 90 YEARS. IT IS SNAITH'S FIRST PIECE FOR TELEVISION, DIRECTED BY TERRY BRAUN. IN HER EXPLORATION OF HOW DANCE AND TELEVISION CAN TELL A STORY, SNAITH USES NOT A LITERAL NARRATIVE BUT A SERIES OF MOVEMENTS AND IMAGES THAT EXPLORE THE LIVES OF THE WOMEN WHO ARE THE SUBJECT OF THE PIECE, BUILDING ON THE RITUALS OF THEIR DAILY ROUTINES: WASHING-UP, DRESSING, FEEDING THE BABY, TO CREATE THE CHOREOGRAPHY. THE FILM IS SHOT AND EDITED SO THAT WHILE WE SEE EACH OF THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN HER OWN TIME, THE CAMERA ITSELF TRAVELS THROUGH TIME, FROM THE 1900s TO THE 1940s TO THE PRESENT DAY.
- Description:FOLLOWING ON FROM 'DANCELINES 1' PETER MUMFORD AND TERRY BRAUN COLLABORATE WITH YOLANDE SNAITH; CARYL CHURCHILL,IAN SPINK AND RICHARD ALSTON TO CREATE THREE NEW PIECES OF DANCE FOR TELEVISION.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:DanceLines Productions
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:17/08/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s