This website has been gathering together anything and everything related to contemporary dance and video other screen media since 2003. We have recently redisigned the site and content to take advantage of all sorts of useful widgets. Through this we hope to support you, your interest and your work.

The main focus of the website is everything pertaining to videodance. We are looking for any critical writing, reviews or articles on videodance, but if you send something and its of interest then we will put it on the site.












A definition of ‘videodance’ 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 ‘videodance’ 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', and now more commonly 'screendance'.

Videodance 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 may include web based work, 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 could be included on this site.




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Other places to go....


Making Video Dance

For more videodance resources and information on Katrina McPherson's excellent workbook Making Video Dance visit makingvideodance.com


MEDIA-ARTS-AND-DANCE mailing list

You can join the MEDIA-ARTS-AND-DANCE mailing list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/MEDIA-ARTS-AND-DANCE.html please join, post information, news and discuss stuff! the RSS feed can be seen here.


Dance-Tech

There is thriving community of artists online at www.dance-tech.net it includes a lot of videos. please join in and support the activities


Loads more links on the resources page.

 

Hello everyone thanks for coming here. 2010 is another great year for festivals productions and workshops. Tell us about your work! send us a link and we’ll plug it if its right for the site. Check out the page links at the top of the page, you’ll find useful resources and lots and lots of links, books and DVDs, a regularly updated news blog, archived information and  a continuously updated selection of new videodance uploads aggregated from sites around the web on to videodances.tv so you don’t have to search. Stay in touch follow us on twitter. New pages will be added so keep coming back!  New features test - see further down this page - click on like if you are on Facebook and you like us!