Gamer
Choreography, Videography, and Editing: Katie Phelan
Music: Ramin Roshandel
Costume Design: Katie Phelan
Lighting Design: Katie Phelan
Dancer: Katie Phelan
Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Miracle
Gamer, inspired by arcade, video, and computer games of my childhood, is a research investigation of body, film, choreography, animation, and multimedia. The process of this exploration began in embodied movement by understand the ways characters and images moved within computer games. The film relied heavily of choreography within the editing portion of the process. The outcomes of the investigation we determined by the relationship between the body’s choreography and the post-production animation.
Katie Phelan is a Midwest-based screendance creator, researcher, choreographer, and educator pursuing her MFA in dance at the University of Iowa. She holds a BFA in dance, a minor in journalism, and a minor in advertising from Oakland University. Katie is the founder of 16:9 Dance: a ScreenDance Collective. Katie has worked with Eisenhower Dance, Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, Motus Dance Theatre, Phoenix Rising Dance Company, AscenDance Chicago, and J. Lindsay Brown Dance. Katie's choreographic works have been seen in NewDANCEFest by Eisenhower Dance, Cultivate by Motus Dance Theatre, and Hope by AscenDance Chicago. Her films have been shown in Festival of the Arts, Beijing Dance Academy's Dance Forum, American Dance Festival Association, FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, and Frostbite International Indie Fest.