About The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms
Cedar Dance Animations Presents
New Digital Dance Resource Guide by Janet Randell
With Video Tutorials, PDF Manuals, Animation and Study Files
An Innovative Approach to Choreography and Dance
Foreword by Merce Cunningham & Introduction by Professor Emeritus Tom Calvert
Experience and master DanceForms as developed and used by Merce Cunningham as part of his artistic pursuit and exploration into new technology.
Created for dancers, choreographers, students and teachers, The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms provides an accessible bridge between the digital world of animation and the world of live dance. Designed as a digital sketchpad resource for choreography, animation and movement analysis, The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms enables the user to create animated dance sequences in innovative ways, to edit and to translate movement from the computer onto the dance floor. The idea behind the Guide is to encourage experimentation in digital choreography and exploration in dance and improvisation.
The Guide contains in-depth tutorials including demonstration videos with illustrative animations, still shots and voice-overs, which feature examples of animated and live dance. There are also libraries of study files, exercises, tasks and comprehensive PDF manuals and resource files.
BRIEF OUTLINE OF TUTORIALS
- Tutorial 1 gives a flavour of what you can do in DanceForms.
- Tutorial 2 takes the user step-by-step through DanceForms, explaining the main functions, controls and menus with supporting animated dance and live demonstrations. There are two complementary supporting manuals.
- Tutorial 3 looks at DanceForms from the perspective of the key choreographic elements of shape, space and time.
- Tutorial 4 focuses on working with shape in the Studio Window for quick and easy digital choreography. Randell brings the principle of the three anatomical planes-of-motion to life in a live performance to music by J S Bach.
- Tutorial 5 is about getting inspired by DanceForms and discovering new possibilities of choreographing movement using both digital and live dance. The tutorial includes Randell’s Dancing Forms for Eight, performed to the music of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, as well as dance variations to percussion and contemporary music.
Produced for all ages and abilities
The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms
unlocks the way to choreograph digitally.
With her passion for making the art of dance and choreography available to everyone, Janet Randell writes:
DanceForms is a wonderful choreographic tool for any dancer, choreographer or anyone interested in dance and notation. The program is accessible to all ages and abilities including people with physical and learning disabilities. I hope The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms will be an inspiration for all dancers and choreographers.
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The Tutorial Guide to DanceForms – Overview
The Fusion of Digital Technology & Dance