Subject Area: Dance Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Film Studies, Media

Choreography and the Moving Image provides the opportunity for dance, media and film students to produce an original work for the screen that is informed by the rich history and practice of dancefilm. The course includes lectures in the history and background of dancefilm as a mode that operates across genres and cultures, from the earliest days of cinema and the experiments of the Surrealists and Dadaists, through the Hollywood musical and Bollywood to today's genres of music video, feature films, dance video and experimental shorts. The course will also consider recent experiments in the field that have moved away from single-screen delivery to include live performance works and installations. Dance Majors and students from film and media will combine skills to produce collaborative video projects for one or more screens. There will be an emphasis on exploring the shared languages of dance and film regarding movement, space and time, and the compositional strategies common to both. An understanding of how 'choreography' can become a model for film production will be explored that moves away from documentation or documentary. Students will be expected to participate as fillmakers and performers, but all students will develop skills and knowledge across the 2 disciplines.