Finding an Alternate Approach to
Narrative and a new aesthetic in
dances for the screen

Ashlin Broody-Walega
BA Dance Major

What is
Screendance?
“ A broad and diverse medium that combines movement, the camera,

Maya Deren

and editing to create a visual narrative experience. “
International Screendance Journal

What is Narrative?
According to Rosenberg, in screendance there are three types of
templates typically used in dance expressing narrative…

1. Dance in service of narrative
2. Narrative in service to dance
3. Dance as narrative where dance is both
the subject and the object of the film

Framing
Choreographing shots, angles, and camera movement
to push along the narrative refers to camera framing.

Shots&Angles

Camera
Movement
To move or not to move?

Location

Editing

Screendance
without
What is
meta-narrative?
narrative?

Conclusion