ABSTRACT
Video dance is a hybrid practice that brings together two different art forms – video and dance – which themselves incorporate many different creative elements such as design, lighting and sound – and this gives it enormous creative potential. The process of making video dance involves the weaving together of various aesthetic and practical elements, often involving numerous people, ideas, places and equipment along the way. Every video dance needs an idea to start it off. Some of the most usual starting points for video dance are: performance; themes; stories; formal; landscape, environment and design; and aural. The theme of a work is an overarching subject to which all aspects of the work relate. Themes can be: emotional; experiential; symbolic; physical; and action-based. In a theme-based video dance, all aspects of the process, including the dancers' movement, the design and framing of each shot and the editing are developed to represent an overall theme of the work.
