Video and Dance, Andrea Keiz
| About masterclass: | In the workshop, we will work on the possibilities and traps of combining video with dance in order to produce the video itself or to use video as a part of performance.
The workshop is designed for dancers, actors and video makers or any artists who should be enabled to set up their own idea of a short video. The work could be shown to a public as a film or clip in itself or be part of a performance.
This working period will be framed by discussions and showings of the work that was done as a support and at the same time as an easy way to exchange different ways to approach a video work.
The workshop program will start physical warm-up, which is accessible to any kind of movement experience.
Added to this we will work about perception and about improvisation to free our mind and to start gathering ideas for own creations.
People will work a lot in groups, to keep on talking about their ideas. The use of words and the necessity to explain your vision helps to sharpen the process.
At the end of the day, there will be time to exchange first ideas, later on products and to talk about it.
After the workshop, everybody can start to work on an own production, which can be shown at the end of the week. Of course there will be also the possibility to follow different interest how to present video.
The video dance workshop could be also connected to another dance workshop taken place at the same time, so that people might choose, their “cast” out of a different context.
How to start?
The Relationship between you as video maker and the technical tool as an elongation of your arm or even of your eye will be in general the idea of the work.
So how would you move with a video camera?
Would you use it as a third eye or would you rather watch the frame you take through the ocular that leaves you with one strong and one "weak" eye. Or would you watch the frame you choose on a screen, which would make it two eyes watching through one frame? Or would you even not follow the frame you are choosing with the eyes, but with the whole body?
Another important relationship you find in that setting is the relationship between you and your partner whom you are videotaping. Would you stay outside or would you try to enter, which would draw the whole range in that you could move.
What is your relationship to what you see and how are you making decisions towards what you keep in choosing the frame for the picture.
So the first part of the work would include a lot of questions, imagination of the image, fixing pathways, moving through them and only in the next step we would use the video camera, fix the pictures and see if it would work, what we had in mind. | | About Andrea Keiz: | As I finished my studies as a biologist at University of Göttingen I started to do an additional education as a teacher for dance improvisation, body symbolic and dance theatre. From this more educational attempt towards dance I started to travel and work with a lot of teachers all around Europe and the states. Very important for my education as a dancer has been
Dieter Heitkamp, Nancy Stark Smith, David Zambrano, Julien Hamilton, Marc Tompkins and of course and even very special since I am working with video, Lisa Nelson. Just to name some.
My artistic expression went more and more towards improvisation and research of movement. And also towards the questions of performing Improvisation. With this I organised and took part at several Improvisation meetings, workgroups and festivals all over Europe and the states.
Besides the dance work together in different international constellations I did two solo pieces. The last one, Project 89, performing last time 2003.
Since 2000 I am working mainly or additionally in doing video documentation of contemporary dance. Within this I am documenting festivals like Tanztage Berlin, Tanz made in Berlin Internationales Tanzfestival Tanz im August and the current programs of places like HAU8 Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzwerkstatt, Tanzfabrik Berlin, sophiensaele, Dock 11 and more.
Besides the documentary work I did a few Installations and video for Performances running at Festivals in Berlin.
Another part of my video work is to work with moving cameras, which is connecting very strongly the issues of improvisation and video work. I teach this normally in combination with Contact Improvisation.
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