Screendance Self/portraits

Screendance works often comprise multiple authorial perspectives. The camera, staging, sound, choreography and context all contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual potential of the work. This provocation draws on Tamara Tomić-Vajagić’s (2016) notion of the ‘self-portrait effect’ to discuss how a c...

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Main Author: Hetty Blades
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2017-06-01
Series:The International Journal of Screendance
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Online Access:http://screendancejournal.org/article/view/5830
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description Screendance works often comprise multiple authorial perspectives. The camera, staging, sound, choreography and context all contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual potential of the work. This provocation draws on Tamara Tomić-Vajagić’s (2016) notion of the ‘self-portrait effect’ to discuss how a confluence of first and third person perspectives cultivates representations of selfhood in two screendance examples: Vis-er-al (2015) by Polly Hudson and 52 Portraits (2016) by Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, and Hugo Glendinning.
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spelling doaj.art-7f2219f0e3c541a491f5d4bb61b2f09d2022-12-21T18:21:24ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesThe International Journal of Screendance2154-68782017-06-018010.18061/ijsd.v8i0.58303787Screendance Self/portraitsHetty Blades0Coventry UniversityScreendance works often comprise multiple authorial perspectives. The camera, staging, sound, choreography and context all contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual potential of the work. This provocation draws on Tamara Tomić-Vajagić’s (2016) notion of the ‘self-portrait effect’ to discuss how a confluence of first and third person perspectives cultivates representations of selfhood in two screendance examples: Vis-er-al (2015) by Polly Hudson and 52 Portraits (2016) by Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, and Hugo Glendinning.http://screendancejournal.org/article/view/5830self/portraitscreendanceselfhood
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title Screendance Self/portraits
title_full Screendance Self/portraits
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