Tag: Dance Film
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Maya.Project.H
Rehearsal 7_ 3.28.18 We’re really onto something here. We rehearsed with a box this time to see if it would help give us options for setting the camera down. I don’t know that it made a huge difference, but we will try again. It’s hard to pay attention to new players when we’ve been building…
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Maya Project.F.
Rehearsal 6_3.7.18 It’s Working! Our process is streamlining. We are beginning with the cameras earlier and with greater dexterity. The foundation of this work is strong now: our sense of motion, proximity, shape, spatial relationship within the concept of frame is really solidifying. It is becoming quite clear in the video relics of these rehearsals…
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Maya Project.E.
Rehearsal 5_2.28.18 Meditation (ATTENTION) Sitting/Seeing (SPACE) Walking/Proximity/Movement (GEOMETRY) Cameras in Play (FRAME) We are working on addressing the issue of “in” and”out” and starting to break it down. The idea is to queer the space between being behind the camera and in front of the camera and making the entire happening a movement event worth…
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Maya: Interdisciplinary Creative Knot
2.27.18 Leading a Maya experiment: Short Maya Description I wrote as a reminder for leading this short workshop in the techniques we are investigating in the Maya project: Maya is an improvisational dance filmmaking project which attempts to demystify the existence of the camera frame in the room, potentially revealing it as just another compositional…
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Maya Project. C.
Rehearsal 3_2.7.18 Two weeks of thinking and review went into this rehearsal, as we did not hold rehearsal last week due to conflicts. The same will be true of the coming week. I will be filthy rich and boiling over with ideas by the time our next rehearsal comes round. We began today walking through…
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Maya Project. A.
I dub this project ‘Maya’, hoping for the influences of Mayas Angelou, Deren, and Lin, in honor of poetry, frame, and landscape. Maya is an investigation of improvisational filmmaking and the demystification of the making of dance films and the camera lens by incorporating the concept of the camera frame into the creative process from…
KATHRYN NUSA LOGAN 