Posts Tagged ‘resources’
Videodance-making 101
When I started making videodances in 2002 I had no idea what I was doing. I was a dancer who had seen a few great dance films by Maya Deren, and decided I had to work in that medium. When I got a video camera it was a process of experimentation and seeing other people’s work that led me to a basic understanding of how to compose movement for the camera and edit it into a videodance. Over the past few years I’ve heard more and more dancers say they want to start making videodances, but they don’t know where to begin.
A Wiki Barn-raising for videodance
If you are interested in learning about something where do you go first? In my case and for millions of others, we look it up on Wikipedia. Just about everything in the known universe that anyone has ever cared to think about is there. Being a user-generated site, the more interest there is in a subject the more comprehensive the Wikipedia articles on it will be. And the theory goes that this makes their encyclopedia more trust-worthy, up-to-date, and objective than any other reference source around, because it’s constantly being checked and edited by its users.
So I decided to look up my area of interest which is videodance. Immediately I ran into a problem, because while I call this genre videodance, there are at least 5 other names it is known by (see my first entry “What’s in a Name” for further discussion on this dilemma).
