SCREENDANCE WORKSHOP SERIES

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop will cover the basic principles of creating your own screendance. This approach to screendance views each part of its creations as an expanded aspect of the dance. We will conceptualize and practice dynamic and thoughtful framing, elements of sound, location, and various editing techniques. Each class will also include movement progressions in Mettler Based dance. We will use this as a structure to create scores for the dancer, the camera, and the editor (all of which might be you). Watching screendances, reading exerpts from Making Video Dance by Katrina McPherson, filming, and editing assignments will take place both in and outside of class. This workshop will culminate in each participant creating their own small screendance. This will be a shared space of exploration and supportiving one another in the efforts to re-discover dance and its possibilities within the creative limitations of a pandemic and beyond.  

ARTIST BIO

Makenna Finch received her BA at Hampshire college in screendance and installation and has been creating dance for screen since 2017. She is certified in Mettler based dance and has attended 6 consecutive Mettler Based Dance Teacher Trainings. She created an underwater dance installation for her senior thesis work and has since taught workshops in screendance and Mettler based dance. In 2019, Makenna and her partner, Eleanor Crawford, created a screendance, Related to the Architecture of a Hallway, which was screened at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), The Anchor House for Artists (Northampton, MA), and Accademia dell'Arte (Arezzo, Italy). They are currently working on a collaborative screendance with the help of Northampton Open Media's short film grant that uses golf as a lens to critique environmental destruction caused by intersectional oppressive structures.