MFA Proseminar: Dance for the Camera

Physicality and human experiences are essential to dance for the camera. This course is a hands-on videodance experience through creating individual and group videodance projects. We cover creative and conceptual thinking, physicality/dancing and meaning, experimentation, pre/post video production, camera techniques, non-linear editing for movement, and choreography for the camera with viewings of seminal and experimental videodances, discussions, readings, computer lab and dance studio, location shooting, gallery, museum, or video installation site visits. Graduate section includes a 15-page paper, an 8-10-minute video project, annotated video/bibliography, student-led lecture, promotional video for the Duke Dance Program, and final video project.