Contemporary ScreendancePER007-1 Applied Choreography: Dance and Innovation

Dr Louise Douse

Films

• Meredith Monk – 16 Millimeter Earrings – 1979• DV8 Physical Theatre – Strange Fish – 1992• Philippe Decouflé – Le P’tit Bal – 1995• Peter Anderson + Rosemary Lee – Boy – 1995• José Navas – Lodela – 1996• Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker + Thierry de Mey – Rosas Danst Rosas –

1997• Pascal Magnin – Reines d’un Jour – 1997• Liz Aggiss + Billie Cowie – Motion Control – 2000• Iztok Kovac + Thierry de Mey – Dom Svobode – 2000• Mitchell Rose – Case Studies from the Groat Centre for Sleep Disorders –

2002• Kathi Prosser – Horses Never Lie – 2002• Wim Vandekeybus – Blush – 2004• Two Thirds Sky – The Water Rail - 2014

University of Bedfordshire 2

Films

• Themes• Emotional• Experiential (speed/transformation/flight)• Symbolic (love/one against many)• Physical (water/earth/gravity)• Action (gesture/climbing/running/falling)

• Stories• From the world around you• Fairy tales• Historical events/lives• Own experience• Imagination

• Formal/Abstract• Technical framework (camera in motion/speed on screen)• Restrictions (body parts/continuous zoom/looping and repetition)

University of Bedfordshire 3

Films

• Visual• Location• Object• Clothing• Colours

• Aural• Music/narrative• Sound/image

University of Bedfordshire 4

Next Lecture

University of Bedfordshire 5

Teaching week 5Calendar week 45Week beginning Monday 3rd November

Lecture 5:The Treatment

McPherson, K. (2006) ‘First steps,’ in Making video dance: a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen. London: Routledge, pp. 1-20.