Making Screendance: from Ideation to Marketing, Theories and Practices

Develop your screendance practice, from theory to experimentation, with a group of seasoned professionals with plural expertise!

Advance registration required

Offered in French only

Collaboratively, the RQD and Regards Hybrides’s Screendance Squad have created this new course to teach dance artists and their teams the skills to embark on or further their artistic practice in screendance, from idea to market ready artwork for digital platforms, television, or dance and film festivals.

The course is divided into nine (9) modules for a total of 62 hours. You can attend all or some of them! Click on the links for a detailed description of each module.

Theory (12 hours, online)

Summary – Making Screendance
Theory Module 1 (3h) – Screendance History and Theory (October 12, 2022)
Theory Module 2 (3h) – Contracts, Rights and Management (January 23, 2023)
Theory Module 3 (3h) – Networks and Presentation Platforms (January 30, 2023)
Theory Module 4 (3h) – Screendance Curatorial Practices (February 6, 2023)

Practice (50 hours, live in studio)

Practice Module 1 (10h) – Screendance with Analog and Digital Domestic Tools (October 8 to 9, 2022)
Practice Module 2 (10h) – Video Mapping, VJing and Choreography (January 14 to 15, 2023)
Practice Module 3 (10h) – Moving Cameras, from Drones to GoPros (November 12 to 13, 2022)
Practice Module 4 (10h) – Professional HD Cameras and Choreographic Possibilities (December 3 to 4, 2022)
Practice Module 5 (10h) – Analog Cameras: Bolex and Film (January 21 to 22, 2023)

Learning Objectives

Know the history of screendance as well as useful screendance theory.
Conceive of choreography from audiovisual possibilities rather than stage possibilities.
Explore the relationship between the body, movement, and the camera, experimenting with different film technologies.
Consider film and video screendance editing from a choreographic lens.
Understand the possible administrative, legal, and contractual frameworks for screendance production.
Discover networks, platforms, and presentation opportunities available to screendance artists.
Consider screendance presentation and programming.

Who should attend this training?

Dance artists and their production teams, beginners or advanced practitioners.

Instructors

This course is offered by Regard Hybrides’s Screendance Squad, a team of talented professional artists offering a variety of skills and artistic visions.

Priscilla Guy is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, curator, and arts researcher based in Marsoui (Gaspésie). In 2012, she founded Regards Hybrides, now a worldwide reference in screendance through its online platform, an international biennale and several screenings every year. Her academic research is published regularly, notably with The International Journal of Screendance and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. She has a doctorate in Feminist Studies and Screendance from the University of Lille (France).

Kim-Sanh Châu is a Vietnamese-French contemporary dance artist based in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal). Her dance practice takes the form of choreographic and video installations. Her work has been presented through several international festivals, including SIDance (Korea) and Krossing-Over (Vietnam). She regularly works for other artists, the most recent being George Stamos, Kimura Byol and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus.

Marlene Millar is a filmmaker (writer, director, editor, producer, and mentor) who has created dance films, documentaries and experimental media productions for over 30 years. In 2019, her career was honoured at a retrospective exhibit at Threshold Artspace, Perth, UK. Her films have garnered over 30 awards and prizes internationally. A prolific educator and mentor, Millar has taught filmmaking across continents for different organizations and institutions.

Sonya Stefan is a media and dance artist whose specialty is analog (16 mm | VHS), video mapping and live feedback projection. She creates screendance that hugs the border between deconstructed experimental film and documentary filmmaking. She won the 2021 Best National Medium-Length Film at the Montréal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) for her dance documentary The Truss Arch. Her recent collaborations are with multimedia dance company Animals of Distinction, Berlin’s experimental music act Group A (Tommi Tokyo and Sayaka Botanic) and Toronto’s Newton Moraes Dance Theatre.

Claudia Chan Tak is a multidisciplinary artist trained in visual arts (Concordia, bachelor’s degree, 2009) and contemporary dance (UQAM, bachelor’s degree, 2012 and masters degree, 2017). Her first short film, La Buvette des carnivores, received the Cinémathèque québécoise’s prize for best director at the Quartiers Danses Festival in 2015. Her work has been celebrated, namely in 2018 with the prestigious Patrons of the Arts prize. For the past few years, she has been offering screendance workshops to teenagers and emerging artists.

Advance registration and payment requireds

Fill out our registration form. Select the Making Screendance modules you wish to attend.
Fill out your Services Québec participant profile. This will be valid for all Making Screendance modules.
Pay via Interac before attending any module you are registered for.

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This training is offered by le Regroupement québécois de la danse and developed by Regards Hybrides. It is made possible through the financial support from the Gouvernement du Québec and Compétence Culture, comité sectoriel de main-d’œuvre en culture.