The Poetics of Movement
June 3 - June 8, 2007
Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo

 

A hands-on 6 day intensive workshop conducted by Elliot Caplan to teach film and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement in all other art forms, including dance, theatre, and the visual arts. This class is intended for anyone interested in learning how to approach movement in film.

    Workshops are 6-8 hours per day.

Lecture/Discussion

The day begins with a talk on specific subjects dealing with new media, art history and contemporary thinking. Use of specific visual examples as demonstrated through art history will include painting, photography, and cinema to orient the student toward language, which will become the basis for work discussion in the class.

Production Sessions

Participants will learn video camera operation including optics, exposure and framing, lighting, sound recording and editing. Through visual exercises incorporating hands-on video camera techniques and selected screenings, participants will have the opportunity to develop a visual sense for the art of filmmaking as it applies to the moving body in dance and performance. Camera instruction is mixed with charcoal drawing to more clearly and quickly illustrate visual points discussed in class. Participants will work through a series of exercises using taught camera techniques, basic lighting, microphone placement, and general production issues. Editing will be demonstrated through selected screenings. Participants are individually guided throughout the process, work is critiqued daily, and participants are encouraged to push themselves to as high a level as they can achieve in a short time. The camera exercises that are given in class help to guide each participant toward a visual sophistication which can be implemented in their own work.

Screenings/performances

Examplar works will be screened, discussed, and critiqued, as well as evening music performances offered by the June in Buffalo festival. In addition, artists from adjacent disciplines such as digital poetics, painting, drawing and printmaking will present guest lectures and work sessions.

*A Daily Modern Dance Technique Class taught by Melanie Aceto is available to choreographers/dancers as part of the Workshop.

Melanie Aceto is a modern dancer and choreographer. She has worked with New York based contemporary choreographers including Barry Blumenfeld, Ellis Wood (www.wooddance.com), Monica Bill Barnes (www.monicabillbarnes.com), Hilary Easton and Guta Hedewig (www.gutahedewig.com). Her own work has been performed in Toronto, New York, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina, in Ohio as part of the Heidelberg New Music and Dance Festival, at Wittenberg University, and in Rochester, NY as part of the ImageMovementSoundFestival. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has been a professor of dance at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, SUNY Brockport, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is currently Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo.


Guest Artists for 2007 include

Carl Dennis Poet
Steve Reich Composer


 

 
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SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF MEDIA STUDY AND THEATRE & DANCE
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK