Making Screendance: Exploring with Analog and Digital Domestic Tools

Explore dance and film through a domestic prism of boundless possibilities

Offered in French only

From cellphones to laptops, to tablets, daily life is filled with screens of all kinds, and this is without accounting for those that we can invent to frame our perspectives.

Through this module, participants will be invited to explore creative possibilities with domestic tools through ingenuous and varied choreographic and cinematographic scores. Inspire and nurture your own screendance practice!

You can register for other course modules and attend all or some of them! Click on the links for a detailed description of each module.

Practice (50 hours, live in studio)

Subsidized Rate: $90/module – (actual price: $900/module)

• Summary – Making Screendance

Learning Objectives

• Consider domestic tools to nurture a screendance practice.
• Develop original screendance scores.
• Develop ease in dancing and filming oneself simultaneously.
• Discover the low-tech possibilities of domestic tools.

Who should attend this training?

Dance artists and their production teams, beginners or advanced practitioners.

Instructor

Priscilla Guy is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, curator, and arts researcher based in Marsoui (Gaspésie). In 2012, she founded Regards Hybrides, now a worldwide reference in screendance through its online platform, an international biennale and several screenings every year. Her academic research is published regularly, notably with The International Journal of Screendance and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. She has a doctorate in Feminist Studies and Screendance from the University of Lille (France).

This module is offered by le Regroupement québécois de la danse and developed by Regards Hybrides. It is made possible through the financial support from the Gouvernement du Québec and Compétence Culture, comité sectoriel de main-d’œuvre en culture.