Frame Shift - An MA Screendance Exchange
by London Contemporary Dance School
About Frame Shift - An MA Screendance Exchange
Frame Shift: An MA Screendance Exchange is a series of different student-led activities happening over two days in various spaces across London Contemporary Dance School.
The MA Screendance at LCDS is currently the only screendance masters in the world. As such, it attracts students from all over the globe. This year's cohort is composed of nine enthusiastic students from China, France, the UK and the United States.
Over the 12-months of the programme, the students are offered the same academic framework and practical course work. In response and through a series of different projects, the students shape their individual practices, enriched by their unique backgrounds, experiences and points of view.
Over their third and last term, the students engage with Unit 4: the Final Project, which integrates all aspects of the students’ practical, theoretical and technical learning throughout the course. Now students undertake a substantial independent research project focusing on their chosen area of inquiry within screendance, presenting this in a format of their own devising.
Frame Shift: An MA Screendance Exchange is an opportunity for audiences to sample some of this exciting and innovative work in a series of presentations, taster-workshops, pop-up performance and installation-screenings, all relating to the students’ research.
Your ticket will enable to you to attend whichever events you wish over the course of your selected day. More details of specific timings and locations in the building will be available on the day; guide timings and details about the MA Screendance students and their work is below:
| Date | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 27 Nov | ||
| 10.30am-5:00pm | Installations through the building | |
| 12:00pm-2.45pm | Final Project Research presentations, Founders’ Studio | |
| Fri 28 Nov | ||
| 10:00am-4:00pm | Installations through the building | |
| 12:00pm-2:00pm | Final Project Research presentations, Founders’ Studio | |
| 2:30pm-4:00pm | Installations and workshops |
MEET THE GRADUATING STUDENTS
Riley Roberts Castellanet
Investigating how live performance and screendance intersect; exploring how creative direction shapes immersive movement experiences and audience perception.
Tacy Xintian Zhao
A cross-cultural screendance where the gestures of China’s self-combed women ignite a dialogue on body, freedom and female agency today.
Becky Johnson
Portraits of a rural village community in West Yorkshire; how screendance can inform a practise of capturing encounters through community portraits.
Jacy Keddie
An exploration of the use of sound in musical film: how the fusion of video, sound and dance constructs a self-contained reality.
Alexandra Turner
Exploration of the restrictions put on the female body - with a sense of hope.
Eimyn Cheung
How can screendance use the body and cinematic language to embody the experience of emotion and reveal the complexity and non-singular identity of emotions - can envy move beautifully?
Jessie Lee Thorne
Exploring how the merging of movement and dialogue can expand narrative meaning and emotional resonance in film.
