DANCE VIDEO: References
By Mary Grace 04:54 Dance Video, Group Production, Innovation and InterferenceRecently due to my love towards one music boy band, I really got into symbolism and decoding meanings in videos and film. But I also know t...
Recently due to my love towards one music boy band, I really got into symbolism and decoding meanings in videos and film. But I also know that to hide hints in films or videos you have to make research to back it up. In our group of 4 that we have for a dance video I am the one responsible for part of the research and meanings behind the video.
The idea of our video is to show that every art is art, no matter where it comes from. We took hip-hop and contemporary styles, because they considered to be from different worlds and sometimes people, who do high art tent to not accept the underground styles, as hip-hop. For us, we don't see a difference in these art form, since they are art. Our statement is quite clear. These two styles can work together.
First of all, we decided to place this video in the theatre. Theatre has always been a representation of high art, moreover placing this "dance battle' between two different styles on the theatre stage makes viewers feel like they are assessing or criticising the battle. It also will make the battle more official.
So straight away on our first very brief meeting I remembered my recent research of Sherin Neshat. Her piece Turbulent had the similar idea, though the meaning behind was different. She put two singers on the stag to judge by others. We will not split the screen in to, but our dancers will definitely start from two opposite sides of the stage, so that we could show the difference and the conflict.
The idea of our video is to show that every art is art, no matter where it comes from. We took hip-hop and contemporary styles, because they considered to be from different worlds and sometimes people, who do high art tent to not accept the underground styles, as hip-hop. For us, we don't see a difference in these art form, since they are art. Our statement is quite clear. These two styles can work together.
First of all, we decided to place this video in the theatre. Theatre has always been a representation of high art, moreover placing this "dance battle' between two different styles on the theatre stage makes viewers feel like they are assessing or criticising the battle. It also will make the battle more official.
So straight away on our first very brief meeting I remembered my recent research of Sherin Neshat. Her piece Turbulent had the similar idea, though the meaning behind was different. She put two singers on the stag to judge by others. We will not split the screen in to, but our dancers will definitely start from two opposite sides of the stage, so that we could show the difference and the conflict.
The idea of dance battles between high art and underground was used multiple times in a bigger industry. For example we desided to have a look into "Step Up 2: The Streets". In the practice room when the team meets ballet dancers they have an actual dance battle since both groups openly dislike each other styles. (Needless to say in the end they unite to win the competition and manage to create a collab choreography, which was amazing, by the way).
- At the moment we are looking for locations and Daniel researches the costumes.
- Our dancers are pretty much locked.
- We are also looking into lighting techniques and styles that we might use, but we will go deeper into lighting as soon as we lock the location.
