Control: An experimental video on the fusion of dance, light and architecture

• Main Author: Chavez, Marian Camille E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Dance; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2367
• Institution: De La Salle University

Video-dance bridges the art of dance and cinema. The beauty of dance is expressed through added elements, producing ... what cannot be perceived in a live performance or to stretch and condense a multi-media form (Conrad Drawing ). The choreographer (and/or director) is able to choose any dance form (e.g. street, jazz, ballet), any fusion of elements (e.g. poetry, visual design, music) and any cinematic technique (e.g. reverse motion, special transitions, horizontal flip). Control , a 10-minute dance choreography made for video, shows how a male dancer's movements are controlled by light and the environment of which he is in: The Light that illumines ... the spaces that motivate and enhance my movements ... I need it. The dancer imitates angular shapes, bangs on the metal bars, jumps towards the ceiling, leaps from an area and lands on another, moves with his shadow, and so forth, with daylight as the source of illumination. The dance form is contemporary, and rather than producing a linear choreography, there is freedom in interlocking different routines through the cut-to-cut editing style. Accompanying the whole video beautified by the black and white color grading is a musical score, created from bits and pieces of simple percussion rhythms and sound effects.