Research paper
The Camera-Dancer Dyad: A Critical, Practical Dialogue of Virtual and Live Studio Methodologies
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- Title
- The Camera-Dancer Dyad: A Critical, Practical Dialogue of Virtual and Live Studio Methodologies
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- Auckland University of Technology
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- Description
This research project constitutes studio-based inquiry into the benefits of dance collaborators using handheld, lightweight video cameras to develop ‘new’ methods of dance making. To uncover compositional openings, we tested various methods in studio workshops of dancers attaching cameras to their hands or bodies during improvisational tasks. We treated these connections as camera-dancer dyads, in the sense that the camera was seen as a collaborating partner of the dancer. The workshops were ...
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- Research paper
- Research format
- Thesis
- Thesis level
- Doctoral
- Date created
- 2014
- Creator
- Nikolai, Jennifer
- URL
- https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/7933
- Related subjects
- Practice-based / Video camera choreographic process / Camera dramaturgy / Emergent improvisation
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