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Abstract
In this article artists Ana Baer and Heike Salzer share their experiential perspectives of screendance making with their company WECreate Production. By reflecting on the work Wild-er-ness (2017-20) they explore how their trajectory of collaborative making has developed towards a site-specific screendance practice in which embodied accounts of place are transmitted through the choreography, the camera and the edit (Salzer, 2019). In Wild-er-ness the team for the first-time combined traditional camera work with drone technology, exploring the opportunities that arise for the dancer-camera relationship, as well as for the composition of the frames in the edit and the various modes of presentation. The authors discuss three versions, Wild-er-ness the live performance with projecting images (2017), Wild-er-ness Reframed, a multi-screen looping installation piece which forms part of the touring exhibition Latent Spaces (2018-2020) and the screendance Wild-er-ness (2019), a 6.23 Minute film version developed for the screening at film festivals. The article presents individual reflections of the artists, which are presented throughout the text as separate voices. They provide insights from the perspective of the dancer, and how ‘dancing with a drone’ challenges traditional choreographic principles and expands the spatial and dynamic choreographic opportunities of the dancer-site-camera relationship, and from the viewpoint of the camera, considering how the multiple viewpoints that can be achieved through a combination of the traditional and the flying camera allows for an editing process that plays with numerous perspectives, producing an immersive sensation through the play of rhythm, scale and dimensions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Videodance Studies: Analysis and Evolutions |
Editors | Blas Payri |
Place of Publication | València |
Publisher | Universitat Politècnica de València |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-84-9048-600-9 |
Publication status | Published - 8 Feb 2021 |
Event | 6th EIVV, International Meeting on Videodance and Videoperformance, October 16-20 2019, Valencia. Spain - Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain Duration: 16 Oct 2019 → 20 Oct 2019 https://videodance.blogs.upv.es |
Conference
Conference | 6th EIVV, International Meeting on Videodance and Videoperformance, October 16-20 2019, Valencia. Spain |
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Abbreviated title | EIVV |
Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Valencia |
Period | 16/10/19 → 20/10/19 |
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Keywords
- Screendance, Videodance, Videodance Studies, Site specific, Wild-er-ness
Prizes
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JEJU Drone Film Festival - Winner of INNOVATION award
Salzer, H. (Recipient) & Baer, A. (Recipient), 2 Nov 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Site specific screendance making: a collaborative embodied wandering practice
Salzer, H. (Presenter), Dumon, D. (Organiser) & Derrick Randolph, K. (Organiser)
24 Jan 2023 → 25 Jan 2023Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Workshop and other training
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Wild-er-ness: Official Selection 2nd Jeju Drone Film Festival
Salzer, H. (Presenter) & Baer, A. (Presenter)
1 Nov 2019 → 2 Nov 2019Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Performance Arts/Exhibitions/Festival outside Roehampton
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Espacios Latentes Replanteados - Latent Spaces Reframed
Salzer, H. (Other) & Baer, A. (Other), 30 Jun 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Wild-er-ness: Screendance
Salzer, H. (Other), Baer, A. (Other), Burton, R. (Designer), Hall, R. (Composer) & Nance, M. (Performer), 27 Feb 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Wild-er-ness: Performance
Salzer, H. (Other), Baer, A. (Other), Nance, M. (Performer), Burton, R. (Other) & Hall, R. (Composer), Sept 2017Research output: Non-textual form › Performance