May 1, 2007

We Need More University Dance Bloggers!!!

The Ohio State Department of Dance's "Dance Downtown Rocks" performance starts this Thursday in Columbus, Ohio. For both "The Vernon Reid Project" and "Set and Reset/Reset," you can watch four video clips of rehearsals and interviews with choreographers. Here's the video page.

I thought the brief interview sections in the videos offer some good insights into the creative process of the participating choreographers.

The OSU Department of Dance has a blog if you haven't visited it before. Mostly it just lists upcoming events and programs but sometimes you'll find some interesting nuggets like videos above.

The Maggie Allessee Department of Dance at Wayne State University also has a blog.

I'd like to encourage dance students at colleges and universities to blog more - about the projects you're currently working on, dance in general, how you're using video and other technologies, what you think is the future of dance, how you use the Internet for research and collaboration, and any other related topics you can come up with. I'm sure it would be interesting and helpful to dancers around the globe.

If you want more specific ideas about what you might blog about let me know and I'll come up with many possibilities. Also, isn't it possible to get course credit for specific types of blog projects?

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