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DANC300: Movement and the Screen
Movement meets technology in a unit which offers a multifaceted approach to dance on the screen and mediated movement. Students have the option to make a short dance film or write a major essay in a mixed workshop/lecture format designed to create vision from both sides of the camera. Lectures and tutorials are both theoretical and practical. Two dimensional time and space, framing, editing, the eye of the camera, choreography and the technological body are investigated. Guest lecturers provide cutting edge industry information. We investigate the exploding field of digitised and virtual dance and the mapping of three dimensional bodies in motion capture. This unit looks to the creation of new art forms and resilient documentation. Questions of mediated performance are explored: does the camera create the dance? Do bodies fashion technology? Do bodies or edits create rhythm? Theoretical frames include film studies, dance analysis, phenomenology and performance studies. Australian art films, advertising, television, computer dance, gaming, CD-Rom, Hollywood, Bollywood and martial art films all feature in a unit designed to open doors and offer flexible assessment choices.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Pauline Manley |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies |
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