Continuum
Choreography: Katie Phelan, in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Michael Wall
Costume Design: Katie Phelan
Videography and Editing: Katie Phelan
Dancers: Kara Bouck, Emily Gumal, Katherine Shamdin, Emily Trapnell
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Fine
For this project, I was focused on creating a screendance filmed in one take. Within the rehearsal process, I built choreography for the dancer’s bodies, while simultaneously considering multiple framing options of the camera to capture said movement. These considerations assisted in the development of the camera’s choreography for the work. The process of choreographing the camera's movement influenced, and was influenced by, the body's movement in the frame. This method allowed me to observe the relationships between camera and dancer, while I built a score for the final iteration.
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.