2018-19 Spring
(HART 1033)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
Dance video is not simply recording a dance performance, but is an intermedia art genre taking the advantage of both video and dance elements to create a dance video artistically. Benefited by modern technology, Dance Video leads the audience to go beyond physical constrains, appreciating the movement in space with a different dimension, while dancers, choreographer and video makers could craft and capture movements and push the edge on artistic creation and expression.
This intermedia art course aims at arousing students’ interest in dance video through an inspiring and enjoyable experience. Students will learn the development of this intermedia art related to experiments with body and video. They will be guided to explore body movements and dance, while at the same time learning skills of shooting and editing to produce a video artwork. Students will work in a team and collaborate to produce a short dance video with their own cameras or smartphones. No prior experience in dance and video is required.
1. Appreciate dance video as an intermedia art and its history and development;
2. Acquire basic skills in choreography, movement, cinematography and video production in dance video;
3. Apply the skills to create a dance video for artistic expression and communication.
Preproduction: Overview & basic skills for dance video
Lesson 1: Overview of the development of Dance Video
Lesson 2: Moving your body
Lesson 3: Basics of shooting with video camera
Lesson 4: Dancing for camera: history and concepts
Lesson 5: Developing movement
Lesson 6: Dancing for a site and video
Production: Dance for Video
Lesson 7: Dance video as an intermedia arts
Lesson 8: Refining dance movements for camera
Lesson 9: Shooting for the final work
Post-production: Finalizing the dance video
Lesson 10: Basics of video editing
Lesson 11-12: Editing the final dance video + Pre-screening
Lesson 13: Presentation
1. MacPherson, Katrina. (2006). Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen. London: Routledge.
2. Douglas Rosenberg. Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Mitoma, Judy. (2003). Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. London: Routledge.
- Stephanie Jordan. Parallel Lines: Media Representations of Dance. Indiana University Press, 1993.
- Johannes H. Birringer. Media & Performance: Along the Border. JHU Press, 1998.
- Annick Vroom, Pascal Magnin. Dance for Camera [DVD]. First Run Features, 2003
- Rosemary Lee, Peter Anderson, Reynir Lyngdal, Katrin Hall, Kelly Hargraves. Dance for Camera 2 [DVD]. First Run Features, 2008
- Amy Greenfield. Cinema Of The Body [DVD]
- Bill Knowland. Freeform. 1983
- Rosas. Rosas Danst Rosas. Quantum Leap, 2006
- DV8. Three Ballets. Arthaus, 2007.
- Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi, Antony Gormley, Nitin Sawhney. Zero Degrees. Axiom, 2008
