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critical analysis of audience and future proposition

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critical analysis of audience and future proposition

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Pencil and tracing paper over still from the film. Add subtract and embellish

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Quotes- Hannah- in dance training at Falmer 

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Quotes- Hannah- in dance training at Falmer 

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Feels liberating to be an artwork in a space that isn’t permanent and not in a frame

There is a preference in our culture for the product over process and having a finished thing that is sellable.

Transient and only there very temporarily

It’s hard to capture- a film of dance and a live performance could be both amazing, but they are different things

The final product of dance is an experience, and the process is also an experience. Whereas for example, in art, the process is often an experience, but the product is more of an object.

There are these infectious beats, things that make you want to move, and when there’s a good track, it drives you on, like the groove

Trying not to shut off from each other. For example, when it’s a ballet class or a contemporary class, you’re doing your own training and technique, but it’s still important to find that connection between each other, a way of expressing a relationship with someone through the body. Those moments when your dance with someone that’s like a really powerful thing--- club thing

Music when dancing can be a default thing and maybe isn’t always needed. People think, oh, it’s dancing, so there has to be music; maybe when there’s no music, I’m dancing more to an internal rhythm. Without a rhythm or a melody, it might be really hard to know how to move your body because we don’t really do that in general life

When you’re a kid, you’re just more bounceable. When your practising dance every day, there are things you have to do to prepare yourself for that, and I guess it does become more serious because I need my body for work. The fear of hurting myself is something that worries me a lot. Sometimes that joy I was talking about is hard to find because I’m tired, and my muscles hurt.

For me, it’s about determination, like I can do this instead of being too disciplined and saying, I must do this because that can lead to burnout. You can’t be on a consistent level of strength and flexibility as that wouldn’t allow you to rest and probably hurt you in the long term instead of allowing it to rise and fall a bit.

When there is this mindset of go go go we have to keep pushing it is quite hard to say actually, no I can’t do that. That can be a difficult thing to say. I guess

It’s good for your seriation or something, exercise is could for your mental health that seems to be a  proven thing. It can give you a sense of pride in your body, like, oh, I can move like this and do that, that’s a good feeling. It allows you to express emotions, feel joy and express joy but also however your feeling and use your body to deal with that.

Connection with other people and dancing with others always feel good, I mean, I feel that. I mean if you’re at a club and you’re dancing with someone you don’t know, you’ve made this connection with someone where you don’t even know their name maybe or who they are  but you’ve shared this moment with them, which I think is really special. I think it’s a really human thing we just need to do. I enjoy tapping into that and learning new ways of how to move.

It’s not permanent its very instantaneous you use it to express how you feel then it’s not there anymore. Talking and writing and drawing are also really great but dance is also just another way to express those things

There’s something quite nice that you don’t need anything else, just come with you, just come with yourself. Before all these ways of communication, like before we wrote or spoke there was this body communication. When we are in the womb, we are moving, like it’s so human, we are always moving even when we are standing still, we are dancing because the blood is pumping around the body. If you say movement is dance then anything is dance.

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archive exhibition (research)

complete archive film
- track

film with sasha

zine

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Starting with a blank A1 piece of paper and charcoal, we paused the film every 5 minutes and drew for 5 minutes
each scene we would wipe off the old leaving some remnants of the previous lines.
studying film through a lense of quick drawing studies. looking at shadow and light and as the frame as a whole. it got me out of head and working instantly while also focus strong focus on space and atmosphere. after the second scene it would mostly be removing dark space with a rubber

The editing of the film was good as it made me study the considerations of each shot created by the director. everything so precise and there for a reason despite the nonsensical and unrealistic narrative

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screenshot from interview with pippa duke (ex ballerina)

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screenshot from interview with sophia campeau (5 rhythms teacher)

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screenshot from Ben Dukes interview (lost dog theatre)

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Shit, I’ve got to do something. There’s a kind of fear thing, a fear of being terrible a fear of injury, that makes me get back into that dancing body

Moving in a way that feels improvisational allows people to find creativity in the body but necessarily having to be clever with it

Im interested in the idea of moving as an act for searching or remembering, letting images arise out of that movement practise

I think I make sense of the world through performance

It’s kind of all-consuming, and I like that about it, but that comes at a cost, particularly the people around me. Part of me thinks, do I want to keep doing that? But then there’s this idea of fighting my own nature thing; maybe I cannot not do it? It’s ridiculous the amount you give to it compared to what you are earning.

It can do amazing things, things for your mental health, and fitness, that is important. But I don’t like this Idea that dance is sometimes pitched like its good for you. One of the things I think is important about dance is that

its this expenditure of energy that isn’t building a wall, is kind of uneccersay, its sweat, energy using up calories, but there is nothing to show for it, its this ephemeral thing thats gone as soon as you stop doing it. There’s something about its resistance to logic and words and products. Its so useless in a way.

It goes against so many things of productivity and growth, any kind of capitalist stuff, dance is this weird thing. And then also we’ve done it from the very beginning, some part of us need to find rhythm and move, it connects us to something older, I think

This dropping down into the body away from the cerebral and rational, it drops into a place I find interesting, when it works it can be this emotional expression thing that we read it a different way.

It encourages us to look around instead of just engaging with what someone saying

I slightly messes time and people can get in a flow with dance

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Alongside this archive video project, I have been working on a collaborative project with a friend from Chelsea school of arts on an art film.
We have been interviewing dancers we know and will later render this to create a narrative and display to an audience

Very conversational, with broad questions to allow dancers to come into it from their stance.
we are interested in how the feeling of dance can be transmitted through audio + visual.
As a curious exploration rather than a commentary?
the project has given my archive film some grounding-
speaking to dancers about their relationship in a broad sense than very specific sense. seeing links between these despite age, experience, gender, it seems they all have touched on something intrinsic to the all consuming experience of dance and, more specifically, choosing dance as a profession.
there is still so much open areas, and I am struggling to hone down on specifics. A lot was touched apon- and how to condense this, I am unsure of

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So much to include regarding the voices of dancers- critical aspects of conversations that i don't want to cut out of video and therefore hard avoid going into a podcast or documentary territory.

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to understand commentary more, is it on acid house? is this confusing to pair with contemporary dancing and unrelated music?

adding more nature to end

dancing as the editor- working with the track more. things appearing and disappearing quickly.
does track need to change?
to make vid loop, maybe?

its purpose being to be observed or background for dancing?
-i think as background more so. like as if it was at a club in the background- rhythm and imagery creating atmosphere but not having to be focused and concentrated on

to add drag from 80s-- like in london

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Bliss: vid of fusion between hiphop & electro

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Bliss: vid of fusion between hiphop & electro

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kind of dated but i liked the candid interviews, interesting to hear what its like to be

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overlay, rotation and transparency

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I like colour combo + totally diff paces

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changing scale and position to allow two or more images on screen

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My parents would put this film on a lot when i was younger

i especially love this clip- the energy n passion is so good

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by choreographer and dancer made this film in a hospital bed while recovering from surgery—a cofounder of Judson Dance Theater.
hand is treated as a sculpture. every-day minimalist choreography.

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this section in particular- heart beating super-imposed on close-up of dancing feet. Its random but somehow makes sense
Projections by Stan VanDerBeek and overlaid TV distortions by Nam June Paik.
Twelve sound-sensitive electronic poles dot the stage; sound is triggered by the dancers' movements and then altered or delayed by the musicians.
'Cunningham's non-narrative, anti-psychological focus on "dance itself" imposes a relation of kinetic immediacy between the dancers and their environment'

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“Imagery and dialogue stimulated by Finnegan’s Wake. It is a satire with undertones of the cosmic spirit.” – Sara Kathryn Arledge

Interested by pace of film. its funny and weird. i like the overlays of marks. A commentary on man, our relationship to earth. capturing of the weird dance of life kind of thing. Surprised by how experimental videos could be in the 50s.

I want to introduce nature clips to dance vids, choreography in frame with nature's non-performative choreography. humans need to capture this somehow, and it being the main form of inspiration of all forms of art, in this case dance?

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'Dance is movement of the body that is rhythmically and culturally patterned. Depending on the genre and intention, people dance in groups, pairs, or on their own. Dance can be a social part of devotional or ritual activity. It can also be choreographed and performed as art or entertainment. Meaning in dance is found in the stylistic and structural manipulation of the elements of space, rhythm, and dynamics, and the human body's physical control. As human behavior, dance draws on motoric, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. It is cultural, providing a means for people sharing and communicating identity, beliefs, and social structures.'

some fave connotations- Aesthetic response, communicative musicality, gesture, rhythm, embodied cognition, rituals, performativity, expressivity, empathy, theatre, cultural identity & heritage

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DanceDance is movement of the body that is rhythmically and culturally patterned. Depending on the genre and intention, people dance in groups, pairs, or on their own. Dance can be a social part of devotional or ritual activity. It can also be choreographed and performed as art or entertainment. M…

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unsure of dialogue- i don't want it to be just random. still don't really know of one singular message? can i talk about multiple at once? main- exploration of how it feels to move and how this can be translated through the screen, how movement has no hierarchy it just is, dance as language through the body (outside of verbal world), innate to human experience and exploration of nature in comparison to dance.
pace from slow to fast, fast to slow
music v important
I am good at pairing images instinctively not so good at transitions and I don't know for how long to leave something on screen for- basically, pace i need to work on

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i wanted to explore rave & techno, which are more relevant to me and the people i am surrounded by rn compared to classical, for example. however, I didn't come across a lot of footage- obviously its less likely people would film club places artistically compared to a choreographed piece. also, being in a crowd means people act as a unit, which is partly my interest however, it acts as an opposite to what i find visually appealing, which is isolated body parts which I can then examine more closely and at varying rhythms as oppose to a more constant high energy pace that raving has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxC1Y6FZqg
Dance Britannia series on BBC-- dangerous dancing- acid house made in 2008. was good reference point to the political and social necessary rebellions of raving. After Thatchersim, a reaction against individualism and a desire to connect. Away from rioting, people were there just to dance as one communal body.
Electronic music came from Chicago + Detroit in mid 80s, and DJ Rambling brought illegal warehouse raves from Ibiza parties to London.
'surge of energy'- Paolo Hewitt
https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/ywnv9x/shoom-club-acid-house
“It deconstructed class divides, social and sexual taboos -- and the walls came tumbling down,” Rampling

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A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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The Forsythe Company wird gefördert durch die Landes- hauptstadt Dresden und den Freistaat Sachsen sowie die Stadt Frankfurt am Main und das Land Hessen. Sie ist Company-in-Residence in HELLERAU - Europäisches Zent- rum der Künste in Dresden und im Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main.

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main archive websites used-
UbuWeb
- avant-garde art videos
a lot of dance videos made by artists. mostly from the 80s and 90s. I re-discovered my favourite dance film made by DV8 physical theatre, 'the cost of living'. watched a lot as a kid.

https://archive.org/
- i like using this website because anyone can post, and is very broad, from some random person sitting on toilet filming the shadow of their hand dancing to 80s soul train vids. their are also a lot of restored super 8 footage which is cool cos otherwise feels as though would be forgotten about.  from such another time-- feels ancient

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to texts, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages.

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Not intentional but collected videos with similar colour tones to the archived still images. mostly B&W with a lot of peachy oranges, dark greens and occasional deep reds and grey blues

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Film Primer (section of archived images- section in this padlet) movement/ dance

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Film Primer (section of archived images- section in this padlet) movement/ dance

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Re-teaching myself photoshop
Basic cropping, formatting
experimenting with how paired images create new associations- language for film visually & understanding what I am trying to say through a process of making. What current socio-political areas? Phenomenon? Through constructing, de-constructing, rearranging etc

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https://www.nowness.com/story/bill-viola-inner-passage

a man walks through the desert- imported into the internal landscape. Comment on the power of solitary expedition? wisdom/ knowledge that is encountered on this journey. human extremes meet- fear & wonder.
Loved the pace of found video montage. rushing of air, and water breathe into each other. Felt forceful in a positive 'real' way- filmmakers' interest in the shared human condition

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Notes from briefing
'brings images together creating an alchemy in the way images respond to one another, quite poetic, forms new knowledge that takes us somewhere'
'writes in images'
'plays game of montage and assembly. chance arranging until images reveal themselves. taking images out of context. Iconifaction-graphic representation of self.
'immunicity'- immune response. disrupt/ explore the arbiquous image sharing we have currently.

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https://vimeo.com/157221223

“I have always said that I only make tofu because I am a tofu maker. One person cannot make so many different kinds of films. It is possible to eat many different types from around the world at a restaurant in a Japanese department store, but as a result of this overly abundant selection the quality of the food and its taste suffers. Filmmaking is the same way. Even if my films appear to all be the same, I am always trying to express something new, and I have a new interest in each film. I am like a painter who keeps painting the same rose over and over again.” – Yasujiro Ozu

meditative, seeing something new in repetition, rhythm. subtle says a lot. love the tryptic. portals into pace of life within Japanese culture

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Experimenting with curves, saturation, colour.
How tone, and narrative can be changed, re-imagined

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There was something funny about this film to me. Maybe I am missing something? the disjoint of dramatic music paired with the toned-down, mundane imagery of normal human activity gave me a child trying to make a horror movie with a cam recorder. Niave, sweet?
Almost a willing for images to be more dangerous/ intense. is this intended? A commentary on class division? through snowy landscapes, workers on the rail, and miserable-looking privileged people sitting on train.

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Inverting- I like how this b&w image turns cyan blue when inverted
further abstracting
interested in how lines interact with each other.
the movement is shown from diff angles, diff forms. Pavement lines echo both similarities and differences.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXAuetndNk

Abstraction of mechanical parts in motion. There's something rhythmic and satisfying but also quite uncomfortable and static. I felt like i was being exposed to intimate parts of these machines, a closeness that felt weird, almost sexual?
The film blurred into one because of the repetition. Maybe an exposure of a singular tone- the same happens with social media scrolling. part of brain turns off

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The initial selection of found imagery- 25 brought to first workshop

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The initial selection of found imagery- 25 brought to first workshop

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Scanned from national geographics, second-hand photography magazines and images that i already had stuck on my wall

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkuJD-7vbt4

'elements of surprise — unexpected feelings and strange juxtapositions of image and situation'- https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/3309/releases/MOMA_1964_0095_1964-10-05_55.pdf

The circular motif flows throughout despite contrasting forms and subjects. The circle sometimes comes off-centre to offset the viewer, perhaps?- I felt in trans-state, then the off-centred circle would bring me back to awareness & re-alert. The Music felt monumental- gave a narrative of something very important & alive. Music rounded- a lot of percussions- mirrored imagery. Rapid changes brought me into different states through smooth than jilted rhythms

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Supervised studio workshop
07.02.23