DCMS://DANC300/Screen, Media and Dance
Contact: Dr Pauline Manley
Room: W6A 112
Email: pauline.manley@humn.mq.edu.au
Phone: 9850-9932
Credit points: 3
Offered: D1 Day; Offered in first half-year
Prerequisites:40cp
Movement meets technology in a unit which offers a multi-facted approach to dance on the screen. Students will make a short dance film in a workshop designed to create vision from both sides of the camera. Dancing for two dimesnsions will be investigated. We will investigate the exploding field of digitised and virtual dance and the technological mapping of moving bodies that creates new art forms and resiliant documentation. Dance will be investigated as mediated performance: does the camera create the dance? Do bodies fashion technology? Dance films will be investigated, framed by both film studies and performance studies. Australian art films will be analysed with guest lectures from the film-makers.