ABSTRACT

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and more.

This book represents new vectors in screendance studies, featuring contributions by both artists and theoreticians, some of the most established voices in the field as well as the next generation of emerging scholars, artists, and curators. It builds on the foundational cartographies of screendance studies that attempted to sketch out what was particular to this practice. Sampling and reworking established forms of inquiry, artistic practice and spectatorial habits, and suspending and reorienting gestures into minoritarian forms, these conversations consider the affordances of screendance for reimaging the relations of bodies, technologies, and media today.

This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in dance studies, performance studies, cinema and media studies, feminist studies, and cultural studies.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

part I|88 pages

Onsceneity: Glitching Visions

chapter 1|20 pages

“Let Me in Through Your Window”

Dancing with Kate Bush and Hatsune Miku

chapter 2|25 pages

The Queer Art of Hospitality

“If You Can Fuck, You Can Dance!” 1

chapter 4|19 pages

The Value of a Cheap Trick

Reverse Motion from Lo-Tech SFX to Speculative Spectacle

chapter 5|7 pages

Little Visions and Grandiose Perceptions

An Interview with Manon Labrecque 1

part II|75 pages

Touching Time: Histories Beyond the Binary

chapter 6|20 pages

Canonising BTS

FOMO in the Archives of Digital Convenience

chapter 7|20 pages

Keeping in Time

Mastery, as a Condition of Colonial and Patriarchal Discourse, and the Temporality of Screendance

chapter 8|8 pages

Bill Robinson

Icon of Dignity

chapter 9|16 pages

The Ghost(s) of Alice Guy

Reminiscences of a Feminist Screendance Pioneer

chapter 10|9 pages

In a World of Dancing Waves and DIY Addiction

An Interview with Sonya Stefan 1

part III|66 pages

Kinetics and Politics of Ephemerality and Ownership

chapter 11|20 pages

“Take Me to the Place Where the White Boys Dance” 1

Tom Hanks's Manchild

chapter 12|19 pages

Traces, Memories, and Rediscovered Gestures

A Creative Practice of Archiving and Sensitive Writing

chapter 14|8 pages

Desire to Heal; Desire to be Seen; Desire to Dance

An Interview with Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo 1

part IV|69 pages

Technology; Technics; Tenderness

chapter 16|18 pages

Filming Consciousness

Between Phonesia® and Talking Camera—Organological Cinema

chapter 18|14 pages

Moving Mirror: Screendance as Performance Methodology

An Interview with Nadège Grebmeier Forget