separation and screendance

the process of dancing in a screendance project resembles more closely an actor in a film shoot than it does being a dancer in a traditional choreographic process

Some brief writing I did for the Centre for Screendance about the ‘separation’ of the dancer in screendance. The rest is here:

screendance.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/separation/

Up next blurred This Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 19.30, Roehampton Dance is presenting some screendance at Chisenhale Dance Space in Mile End. I’m going to be talking contradictory ideas Don’t take yourself too seriously, and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but

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