Spring 2027

History of Screendance

Explores the history and practice of screendance, including performance for camera, fiction, and documentary, with an interdisciplinary approach to making performative work for the screen.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Douglas Rosenberg4.0/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze history of screendance within a historical framework which the student will learn through lecture, screenings, and readings.

  • Demonstrate strong written skills to communicate grasp of the myriad forms of this hybrid art form and the various approaches and concerns over time.

  • Analyze socio-political and cultural perspectives, as well asphilosophical and aesthetic strategies at work within the form and content explored by the directors and choreographers.

  • Demonstrate conceptual rigor, research, and critical analysis to gain knowledge and skills in cross-cutting methodologies and approaches.

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DANCE 567

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Raw average: 4.26/5 from 23 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Spring 2027

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the class

Focus on the history and practice of screendance in its myriad forms including, but not limited to, performance made for the camera, first person narrative, spoken word, fictional cinema, experimental documentary and other forms of mediated performance practice within the broadly defined context of dance. Interdisciplinary approach to making performative work for the screen.

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Topics

  • Forms of screendance including camera performance, first-person narrative, spoken word, fictional cinema, and experimental documentary.
  • Socio-political, cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic strategies in dance and film direction.
  • Mediated performance practices within the broader context of dance.

Skills

  • Analyze the history of screendance within a historical framework using lectures, screenings, and readings.
  • Analyze socio-political, cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic strategies in works by directors and choreographers.
  • Apply conceptual rigor, research, and critical analysis to cross-cutting methodologies and approaches.
  • Create performative work for the screen using an interdisciplinary approach.

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DANCE 567 · Spring 2027

History of Screendance

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