Dance on Camera at Tufts University: Day 10: Creating & Filming Site-Specific Dances with Rachel Boggia

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Day 10: Creating & Filming Site-Specific Dances with Rachel Boggia

On Friday, we were visited by guest artist and screening panelist Rachel Boggia, who took us back to the squash courts for a lesson on creating and filming site-specific dances. As I spent the entirety of the class ~~throwing myself against a wall~~ dancing for the student filmmakers, I unfortunately don't have any videos from this awesome class yet. The students, however, ended up with some really great footage that hopefully they'll be willing to share here in the near future. (Their first independent projects are due this week, so I don't want to bug them for their footage, but trust me—the stuff they got is amazing!)

- Cassie

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Dance on Camera

Dance on Camera is a Tufts University course designed for any dancer, artist, or student interested in film and video production with dance or movement as a medium. Through storyboarding, shooting, editing, choreographing, and directing, students will learn basic video production techniques and advanced camera work.

The Spring 2015 version of the course is being supported by a Tufts Innovates! grant, which will aid us in our goal of creating two professional level projects for submission into various national and international film festivals by providing us with the resources to purchase high-quality digital cameras and other video-making equipment, to take a class trip to NYC for the 2015 Dance on Camera Film Festival, to organize an on-campus dancefilm screening, to learn from guest artists in the field of videodance, and more.

This semester, the course is being taught by Jaclyn Waguespack with assistance from Cassie Burns.

Dance at Tufts

At Tufts, dance is a well-established and vibrant part of the academic, cultural, and community life on campus that includes the Dance Program in the Department of Drama and Dance, and the many and varied extracurricular student dance groups across the university.

The dance program exposes students to the rich history of the discipline and current practices in the field within a fully integrated vision for liberal arts education. Students access the program as new-to-dance practitioners; as members of cultural arts studies programs; or as committed dancers in the field. All have the option of working toward Minor Degrees in Dance. For students who enter the program with advanced training, we offer the opportunity to study dance within the context of a liberal arts program (differing in its focus from more technically-oriented conservatory programs). While we do offer a number of advanced technique course options, our program focuses on creative process, modern dance, and non-western dance forms, all of which involve a balance of both experientially and academically rigorous course work.