Title: Contemporary Screendance Unit: PER007-1 Applied Choreography: Dance and Innovation Course: Dance and Professional Practice Institution: University of Bedfordshire Tutor: Dr Louise Douse

1. Contemporary Screendance
PER007-1 Applied Choreography: Dance and Innovation
Dr Louise Douse

2. Films
• Meredith Monk – 16 Millimeter Earrings – 1979
• DV8 Physical Theatre – Strange Fish – 1992
• Philippe Decouflé – Le P’tit Bal – 1995
• Peter Anderson + Rosemary Lee – Boy – 1995
• José Navas – Lodela – 1996
• Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker + Thierry de Mey – Rosas Danst Rosas –
1997
• Pascal Magnin – Reines d’un Jour – 1997
• Liz Aggiss + Billie Cowie – Motion Control – 2000
• Iztok Kovac + Thierry de Mey – Dom Svobode – 2000
• Mitchell Rose – Case Studies from the Groat Centre for Sleep Disorders –
2002
• Kathi Prosser – Horses Never Lie – 2002
• Wim Vandekeybus – Blush – 2004
• Two Thirds Sky – The Water Rail - 2014
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3. Films
• Themes
• Emotional
• Experiential (speed/transformation/flight)
• Symbolic (love/one against many)
• Physical (water/earth/gravity)
• Action (gesture/climbing/running/falling)
• Stories
• From the world around you
• Fairy tales
• Historical events/lives
• Own experience
• Imagination
• Formal/Abstract
• Technical framework (camera in motion/speed on screen)
• Restrictions (body parts/continuous zoom/looping and repetition)
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4. Films
• Visual
• Location
• Object
• Clothing
• Colours
• Aural
• Music/narrative
• Sound/image
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5. Next Lecture
Teaching week 5
Calendar week 45
Week beginning
Monday 3rd
November
Lecture 5:
The Treatment
McPherson, K. (2006)
‘First steps,’ in Making
video dance: a step-by-step
guide to creating
dance for the screen.
London: Routledge, pp. 1-
20.
University of Bedfordshire 5

6. Next Lecture
Teaching week 5
Calendar week 45
Week beginning
Monday 3rd
November
Lecture 5:
The Treatment
McPherson, K. (2006)
‘First steps,’ in Making
video dance: a step-by-step
guide to creating
dance for the screen.
London: Routledge, pp. 1-
20.
University of Bedfordshire 5