Screendance Making Road Block
So you see, imagination needs moodling-long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.~ Brenda Ueland ______________________________________________________________________________________ Here I sit impatient and flustered as I wait for ideas to come pouring out of my mind. I find myself choreographing dances and working out amazing video work all day long, when I sleep, when I am in the … Continue reading
Grad School-Application Requirements
Many graduate schools have the same general requirements for those interested in an MFA program. I have found that it typically consists of the following: A baccalaureate degree – Must come from an accredited College or University with a GPA of 3.0 or higher A general application– Most Universities offer an online app. A program … Continue reading
Grad School-Screendance: The Search Continues
As scared as I am to say this out loud…I am ready to start applying to grad school. Whew. I said it. I have feared those words for the last six months because grad school is like “big people” stuff. You know, the stuff that real adults do. Almost any mediocre passerby can get in … Continue reading
Dance Your PhD
A fusion of dance and science for film? Get out of here!?! When I was directed to the website for the Dance Your PhD contest, I was overcome with excitement. Non-dancers and dancers alike coming together to create works of art that represent a PhD candidates thesis work, what could be better? Oh yes, they get to … Continue reading
Alexandra Beller
How is it possible that society can relate any thing to the way ones body looks?? With all of the advancements in thinking and creating that has taken place over the last 30 years alone, I cringe at the idea that this one insane concept is keeping artists like me insecure about our place in … Continue reading
Yvonne Rainer
No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator. No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of spectator by the … Continue reading
Screendance Process Step One: Treatment
I am beginning the process for my first dance project this semester, my second screen dance EVER, and like any good film, it all starts with the treatment. Treatment: an outline or prose summary prepared before the script, telling the story with characters, situations, etc. but often without dialogue and usually without separate shots indicated. … Continue reading
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