This is a six-session Zoom course in expanding the way you think about dance.

For people who’ve spent most of their lives envisioning dance on stage, it’s natural to think of dance-film as beautifully recorded choreography. One envisions wide shots of whole bodies that stay the same size, in the same space, in linear time.  Like on stage.

There are more possibilities.

Dance-film is film and it requires film thinking. In dance-film, those same elements that make Dance dance—motion, musicality, space, design—are melded with film language into a cinematic reimagining of the dance dynamic. Performers don’t have to stay the same size—we’re granted incredible intimate access to look right into their eyes. They don’t have to stay in the same space, or even the same time. That’s incredible artistic freedom.

To step into this different world, it’s important to loosen attachments to long-developed thinking patterns, and see with new eyes.

Our goal in this course is to develop a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.