Films

Visual Rhythms Rita Blitt inspires dancers at the University of Florida to improvise and then to extend their dance on paper. She would like encourage non-dancers also to try this. Public Television. Gainesville, Florida. 12 minutes. (2006) Read more about the Visual Rhythms Workshop
Caught in Nature with J. S. Bach merges painter/sculptor Rita Blitt’s love of nature and music with her art. Internationally acclaimed cellist Yehuda Hanani, longtime friend of Blitt, plays a selection from the Bach Suites for Solo Cello as the camera captures what Hanani describes as a “sense of wonder and mischief” in Blitt’s work. Photographed in Aspen, Colorado. 8 minutes. (2005)	Caught in Paint captures Rita Blitt painting on four by eight foot transparent surfaces while David Parsons and members of the Parsons Dance Company are seen in mid-air imitating the dancing lines of Blitt’s paint strokes. Lois Greenfield, who collaborated in this union of paint, dance and photography, made still photographs as she, too, was being filmed. 6 minutes. (2003) View a list of film festival showings and awards
dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt, (Also known as “Creating Drawings and Sculpture with Rita Blitt”) which was created to encourage everyone to “let their hands dance on paper,” also documents 20 years of Blitt”s creativity. Pentacle Productions. 25 minutes (1984) Read about dancing hands Workshops	Flag 1976: Rita Blitt contrasts the creation of Blitt’s 1748 piece acrylic flag with that of Betsy Ross. Pentacle Productions. 7 minutes. (1975)

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Photos from the film “Caught in Nature with J. S. Bach.”

Photos from the film “Caught In Paint.”
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dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt
At Texas A&M University in January 2004, Blitt conducted the workshop with a dance composition class and said, “Getting dancers to alternately dance on the floor and then dance with their hands on paper, back and forth as the spirit moved them... was a very satisfying experience for me.” This was done while listening to the wonderful percussion cd “Over The Moon” composed and performed by Dr. Michael Udow.

The response was magical. One student said “I’ve never felt so creative in my life and it made me feel so calm.” Another student went home and wrote ten pages in her journal about the experience. A month and a half later, Christine Bergeron, dance instructor, wrote Blitt ‘They still talk about the experience with you and how it has influenced their creative juices.’

Workshop Instructions for “dancing hands” and “Visual Rhythms”
People of all ages and skill levels can enjoy “dancing on paper” with one hand or two. They just need to follow four rules:

Pretend as if you are the only one in the room.
Let the lines come from deep inside you.
Work quickly, marking one page and turning to another and another.
Tape the bottom cardboard of your drawing pad or the corners of your paper to the table so the paper doesn’t move as you draw with two hands.