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How Are We Different? e xploring culture through dance. Seeta Kanhai Thesis 1 | Anezka Sebek Fall 2011. Concept. Music Video Observation of Culture through dance and similarities in form Visualizing similarity that people do not normally recognize
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How Are We Different?exploring culture through dance Seeta Kanhai Thesis 1 | Anezka Sebek Fall 2011
Concept • Music Video • Observation of Culture through dance and similarities in form • Visualizing similarity that people do not normally recognize • Audio representing music theory of Eastern & Western worlds • through percussion and string based instruments
Contribution & Target Audience • Contribution: • A/V aid to remind or enlighten on the traits we share, even with geographic differences • Targetaudience: • Cultural anthropologists? • Dancers & Dance enthusiasts?
Precedents • Text – • moving history/dance cultures a dance history reader • Examples of Secular Dances – • Bharatanatyam (South Indian) • American Ballet • West African • Contemporary Music – • Thievery Corporation • The XX • Bonobo • Gotan Project
Media & Form • Filmed in HD footage • Time manipulation • Goal – illustrate similarities found in different world dances with continuous transition throughout piece (choreography/editing)
[Shot Prototype] WIDE SHOT of West African Dance
Arm & Leg repositioning West African choreography transitioning to Bharatanatyam
CAMERA DIRECTION: Tilt movement following left leg, from top to bottom
Bharatanatyam transition to American Ballet (PLIE in MEDIUM SHOT)