Moving imagery captured for the screen—whether it is of bodies in motion, a slow pan across a landscape, or the visual poems evoked by shifting anthropomorphic forms—has the choreographic and kinetic potential to rival the greatest of dances for the live stage. My challenge as a maker of dances for the screen is to evoke the same kinesthetic power, depth and expressive empathy of a master dancer or choreographer. It is also to discover and make artistic sense of those effects that could never be simulated on stage.
Editing first on iMovie then on Final Cut Pro, I have learned to flex my compositional muscles in a new, fluid medium, to imagine worlds on a screen, and to see and feel through the eye of the camera. I combine video imagery with live performance, feature it as a part of video installations in galleries or museums, and submit my works for screenings at festivals, on television or on YouTube. In return, I open my work to new audiences—without my having to be there to dance a step!
