February 15, 2006

Dance Videos and Video Blogs

Thanks to Jo-Anne Green at network performances for her two dance posts from yesterday and today:

Today Jo writes about the videodance work of Mimi Garrard. On the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre website you can watch "Creating Dance for Video, 2006." You can also visit the Videodance page to watch a number of additional videos choreographed by Mimi Garrard. Mimi Garrard has been creating dance videos since the 1960. The presentation of videos on this site is excellent. It's a nice change to be able to watch dance videos in an accessible and enjoyable manner. I'm getting tired of going to dance websites with video and having trouble finding the clips and playing the videos or having to view such small screens that it's impossible to know what you're watching.

And yesterday, Jo linked to Ying Zhou's Dance Diary. Ying Zhou is a dancer who grew-up in Beijing and lives in Seattle. On a November 17, 2005 post, she videotapes a dance piece for her blog and makes it available to visitors and then people can leave comments. I've always liked this idea of creating dance pieces for blogs and then providing viewers with an opportunity to communicate directly with a dancer/choreographer. I think it would be great to see this idea built upon and explored by many more dancers. This is one of the ideas I wrote about in my white paper on blogging.

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