Being a Video-Choreographer: Describing the Multifaceted Role of a Choreographer Creating Screendance

Abstract

<p>This is a conversation between Heike Salzer, Artistic Director of <a href="http://www.salts.nl">Salts</a> and Ana Baer, Artistic Co-Director of the <a href="http://sanssoucifest.org/">Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema</a>. They talk about the creative process of a videographer, the Sans Souci Festival, and the importance of screens, audiences and legacy.</p>

New Materials: Natural Elements and the Body in Screendance

“…Ana Baer speaks of "situational screendances" where the narrative develops out of the situation encountered in the location. 7 Both of these approaches to shooting on-site stress the need to be ready to catch something as it comes, filming almost in a documentary-style and turning movement-making into an exercise in improvisation. What Baer and Salzer fail to explain is the way through which the link between the body and its surroundings is established; beyond simply being in the right place at the right time, how does a dance filmmaker make a piece site-specific?…”