Dance on Camera at Tufts University: Student Films at the Spring Dance Concert

Monday, April 13, 2015

Student Films at the Spring Dance Concert

The Tufts University Department of Drama & Dance's Spring Dance Concert is this weekend! In addition to showcasing work from the department's Dance Repertory & Performance class (which, this semester, was led by Dance on Camera instructor Jaclyn Waguespack) and graduating dance minors, there will also be a showing of some of the Dance on Camera students' independent projects:

Overthought by Jane Acker
Somewhere by Sophia Atik
Wrecked, Solitary, Here by Cassie Burns
Build a Home by Aaron Idelson
Unbound by Anais Jurado
Inching Closer by Josh Lee

Tickets are on sale now for $5 each in the Balch Arena Box Office at Tufts. For more information, check out the Facebook event page.

- 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.