Workshops
DigiDance provides an educational and creative workshop for ages 14+. Workshops emphasis idea and practices involving dance and film. Focusing on videography, participants will explore cinematic choreography options, framing choreography, and camera improvisation. From a movement basis, participants will develop processes of choreography for film.
Topics of lecture and practice within workshops include:
- Framing, Tracking, Perspective
- Screendane Vs. Archive or Documentation Film
- Equipment understanding, setting, and use
- Single-Shot composition
- Body Engagement
- Choreography of Camera
- Instigation Determined by Influences
- Performative qualities for the Camera
- Relationship between Camera and Subject
- Ephemeral Elements of Performance
- Unseen Labors of Screendance
- Collaboration
- Multi-Media Elements
- Spectatorship of Filming Processes
- Observations and Development
- Editing
Participants will learn movement material, workshop and structure it into a cohesive group piece, and film. Upon completion of post-production editing by 16:9 Dance, participants will be given a digital copy of the finished screendance for their own personal use.