Introduction
Welcome to Videodance.org.uk - the website gathering together anything and everything related to dance and video/ other screen media since 2003 (see our definition for the site, below right).
We've recently updated the News area, so check that out for festivals, calls for work, opportunities to develop your practice and to develop your international contacts.
To help us develop and expand, we are now inviting visitors to make a donation, to support the site's basic running costs and help ensure long term viability.
You can also get involved by emailing us your screen dance news, opinions and so on... check out the links above to get an idea of the breadth of content we aim to cover.
And please link to us if you can at videodance.org.uk - this helps others to find us easily, either direct from your site or via search engines.
Finally, as we said in our last update, you'll see many more Spanish articles appearing on the site in the coming months, reflecting the significant activity taking place in screen dance particularly in Latin America. So, this is definitely the year we start to improve our Spanish! And if people would like to offer translation help, this would be much appreciated.
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FOR NEWS AND UPDATES SEE OUR News PAGE
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For information about Opensource Videodance 2007, visit videodance.blogspot.com
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Check out choreovideo.com a new resource from the USA - see our Resources page
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VD MADE IN CHILE: Compilado de Videodanza Chileno. Producción independiente de CAIDA LIBRE ... Find out more at our Works page
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NEW from The Leonardo Book Series and MIT Press
VIDEO: THE REFLEXIVE MEDIUM by Yvonne Spielmann... see our Books page
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Our Opinions page leads to a host of articles - and we're always looking to add more...
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For information on Katrina McPherson's excellent workbook Making Video Dance, see our books page or visit makingvideodance.com
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please join, post information, news and discuss stuff! There are 170 people on this list already.
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Go to Screendance.org to see announcement on a new Journal for 2008
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We would like to thank http://imagesdedanse.over-blog.com/ This french site has directed a lot of visitors to us over the past year or more and we would like to reciprocate.
Videodance.org.uk is a totally unfunded venture but we would like to take this opportunity to thank the School of Media Arts and Imaging, Dundee University Scotland for their support of our practice and research. Courses
If you find this site useful in any way please tell others about it or make a link from your site. If anyone woud like to help us in maintaining this site that would be really appreciated.
As major sponsors of Open source {video dance} we will continue to distribute information relating to the outcomes of the symposia and promoting future events. Go to videodance.blogspot.com . 2006 Publication available now. 2007 publication will be available summer 2008.
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A Definition
The main focus of the website is everything pertaining to video dance. We are looking in particular for any critical writing or articles on video dance, but if its of interest then we will put it on.
A definition of ‘video dance’ is movement-based work that is conceived and / or choreographed for viewing on a single screen - be it a TV, monitor or by projection - and that exists as a work in its own right, i.e. it is not part of a live performance .
The vast majority of people making this kind of work are now doing so using digital video technology, at some, if not all of the production stages. However, the term ‘video dance’ does not exclude work that has been shot or even edited using a film format. It is rather a catch-all term used to describe this relatively new art-form that fuse s avant-garde approaches to dance making with innovation in video art, film-making and televisual practises.Other terms that are commonly used to describe this kind of work are 'dance film', dance on screen', 'cine dance', 'screen dance'.
Video dance can be based on already existing live dance works, but the work will have gone through a complete re-work to create a work unique to the screen.
Whilst video dance is the main focus of the website, other dance-based screen work will be featured. This will include documentaries with dance-related subjects, documentations of live choreographic works and screen versions of live works. Ultimately, if it relates to dance on screen and it is interesting, it will be included on this site.
 We would like to thank citymoves dancespace Aberdeen, Scotland, UK for their support in the initial research and development period.
We would also like to thank Arts Council England for their recent research support in looking at the future development of some useful tools for the site.
 
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