Welcome to Videodance.org.uk - the website gathering together anything and everything related to dance and video/ other screen media since 2003 (see our definition for the site, below).
This Site has moved to a temporary home on left-luggage.co.uk. We could no longer afford to run it or find the time to maintain it. It may yet appear again as screendance.org. more information on videodance resources can be found at makingvideodance.com makingvideodance.com
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Thanks for your support.
To help us develop and expand, we are now inviting visitors to make a donation, to support the site's basic running costs and help ensure long term viability.
For information on Katrina McPherson's excellent workbook Making Video Dance visit makingvideodance.com
The main focus of the website is everything pertaining to video dance. We are looking in particular for any critical writing or articles on video dance, but if its of interest then we will put it on.
A definition of ‘video dance’ is movement-based work that is conceived and / or choreographed for viewing on a single screen - be it a TV, monitor or by projection - and that exists as a work in its own right, i.e. it is not part of a live performance .
The vast majority of people making this kind of work are now doing so using digital video technology, at some, if not all of the production stages. However, the term ‘video dance’ does not exclude work that has been shot or even edited using a film format. It is rather a catch-all term used to describe this relatively new art-form that fuse s avant-garde approaches to dance making with innovation in video art, film-making and televisual practises.Other terms that are commonly used to describe this kind of work are 'dance film', dance on screen', 'cine dance', 'screen dance'.
Video dance can be based on already existing live dance works, but the work will have gone through a complete re-work to create a work unique to the screen.
Whilst video dance is the main focus of the website, other dance-based screen work will be featured. This will include documentaries with dance-related subjects, documentations of live choreographic works and screen versions of live works. Ultimately, if it relates to dance on screen and it is interesting, it will be included on this site.
We would like to thank http://imagesdedanse.over-blog.com/ This french site has directed a lot of visitors to us over the past year or more and we would like to reciprocate.
Videodance.org.uk is a totally unfunded venture but we would like to take this opportunity to thank the School of Media Arts and Imaging, Dundee University Scotland for their support of our practice and research.
If you find this site useful in any way please tell others about it or make a link from your site. If anyone woud like to help us in developing this site that would be really appreciated.
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We would like to thank citymoves dancespace Aberdeen, Scotland, UK for their support in the initial research and development period.
We would also like to thank Arts Council England for their recent research support in looking at the future development of some useful tools for the site.
We would like to thank citymoves dancespace Aberdeen, Scotland, UK for their support in the initial research and development period.
