On-Site:
Embodied Screendance
Applying somatic practices to creating dance on video.
One of the central challenges for contemporary performance artists is how to integrate and transcend technology in a way that is authentic, embodied, and deeply rooted in place. On-Site: Embodied Screendance is a practice exploring these elements through a systematic series of physical and meditative approaches which result in screendances which are site-specific, endurance-based, and upend many conventions within current video and dance cultures.
This approach to creating screendance was developed through the ongoing series On-Site, which explores space/place through specific movement structures which illicit a deeply rooted relationship to the space in which the artist is inhabiting. Often recorded over days, or weeks, then edited to represent the experience of being present in each unique space.
Participating artists only need a mobile phone with basic editing app.