Claudia Brazzale covering ground: dancing, choreographing, filming and writing
an interview by Tanja Meding
Claudia Brazzale has worked in dance, film and academia for numerous years. This interview is a view into her creative process: how one piece of work that started as a video experiment at home grew, developed, and matured over time and became richer [...]
Dance Education: What Are The Benefits? A Personal Reflection
by Jeremie Gluckman
A group of young adults are dressed in formal wear. One by one, they rise from a row of black chairs to stand and face the camera. Mechanically, the mass of students begins to dance. As a carnival song plays, their feet shuffle and their hips [...]
“Camera as _______”
Loading the frame in screendance
by Jeannette Ginslov
This article was inspired by Aristotle’s notion of Rhetoric; the five Core Course Headings originated by Bata Passchier CEO of the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA); dance filmmaker Douglas Rosenberg’s novel idea of “the camera as carnivore”; and my own research on [...]
Dance, Film, and Kinesthetic Response – A Call Toward Action
by Jen Edwards
Nearly a year ago, I had the opportunity to make a short video, for distribution on a large online platform. The assignment was to teach a relaxation technique through the piece. I knew that dance needed to play a part for two reasons: 1) [...]
Body of Water: Video installation and live performance by Dawn Kramer and Stephen Buck at Pozen Center and Godine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, June 3-4, 2011
Review by Debra Cash
A dappled chameleon lingers among granite boulders. A water lily’s pale face brightens a stream of dark water secreted within a hidden [...]
Postcards from Italy: Making an Effort with Interactive Art
by Renata Shepard
Renata Sheppard is a dancer, choreographer, and media artist currently enjoying a Fulbright Fellowship in Turin, Italy. Her Fulbright research involves a live interactive performance that will soon become a dance for the camera work in a 3D virtual environment. Exploring sound, Laban Movement Analysis, [...]
Continuing the Conversation
Erin Brannigan’s Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image
Book Review by Terry Sprague
As we continue to piece together the puzzle that is the ever-emerging genre of dance on film and video, Erin Brannigan provides us with a foundational piece of that puzzle in her recently published Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (2011). Brannigan re-frames [...]
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Deborah Jowitt on bodies in motion
One of the most sought after voices in the dance community at large, Deborah Jowitt is back with her blog DanceBeat: Deborah Jowitt on bodies in motion. Departing from the Village Voice earlier this year, Jowitt is dedicated to continuing her efforts in dance criticism. Eager to engage an online audience, readers are [...]
A Rose is a Rosa is a Hesperrhodos
— (re)Naming an Art Form —
by Mitchell Rose
It’s embarrassing. My art form is simultaneously under-recognized and over-named.
I spend a lot of time on airplanes and a fair amount of that time is spent explaining what I do. If I were an astrophysicist, I could say “I’m an astrophysicist,” and people would [...]
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