DANCE VISUAL LANGUAGE
Dance project - это студенческий проект, связанный с передачей эмоций во время танца через шрифт, а также интерпретация анимированных названий движений через танец. Такая интерпретация у каждого человека своя, что я и хотела отразить в видео и постерах.
Digging into the theme of contemporary dance, I questioned the side of emotions and perception of terms. Academic dancing terms are usually used in conjunction with personal names for particular movements. In the Project I wanted to show this word usage and dancers perception of it. Having tried out different visual ideas such as posters, cards, stickers I finally drove to a decision to make a video for dancers. Considering new reality and quarantine the project came to a form of home-based improvisations by several participants who read dancing terminology on the same video and dance simultaneously.
The result was intriguing - contemporary dancers of different backgrounds moved differently with the video but at the same time similar ideas could be read there.
As a proposal for my project I made a final video-documentation with examples of dancing people and animated words that appear on the screen with the music flow. It was decided to make animation simple because after asking dancers’ opinion, I realized that distorted and stretched text is too complicated to read in motion. However, my idea was to make kind of randomizer when individuals don’t know the content of next phrase - choreography beforehand. In such way we get pure improvisation, visualization and interpretation. So, in my video animated phrase appear after spinning in different dimensions what symbolizes word’s random generator. While people are seen simultaneously on the screen, there are also frames with one dancer closer like in a FaceTime conference interface.
The Video with dancers of different levels was also done in a collage style because of Quarantine 2020 measures and self-isolation.
