"DANCE FOR THE CAMERA"

DANCE WORKSHOP COURSE AND VIDEO IN THE CENTER OF THE ARTS

Renowned dancer and visual artist Alejandro de León, gave the theoretical and practical course "Dancing for the Camera", which was an intensive introduction to artists who seek to explore both worlds, dance, and video, as well as deepen world of image and movement perspective. The workshop was held from 20 to 24 April in the area of ​​Performing Arts Arts Center San Luis Potosi Centennial.

Within the academic content of the course, seek to show that different art forms can coexist harmoniously in the same product. Within the group dynamic is the appreciation of dance works made for video. Similarly, students performed three one-minute short film based on the contents of the workshop, with the intention to get involved with the tools and flexibility offered by technology.

According to De Leon, "The technique of video is not expensive, it's really useful as it is based on the artist's creativity. As for the realization of short, there will be a space analysis, joint movement, time, distance, speed, know how to move and how to record, to reach the most complex is the composition. "

It also underscores the fundamental difference between a performance on stage, and translate it into video image is the visual depth, ranging from three-dimensional, with just two planes. This is vitally important to recognize that a product possesses sufficient quality to go down to posterity and become art, you have to learn the rhythm and dynamic space for film and a vision of dance.

"What I mean is that there are many levels on which to work, beginning with the idea, which can have practical and economic purposes, technicians and those driven by creativity. This requires taking into account elements such as camera basics, photography, color, architecture, sculpture, space. A structure is a balance between the performative element and interpretation. "

De Leon said, pleased with his group, the workshop developed specifically for the Center for the Arts. "It was a one-week course, to bring them to the world of image, a visual exploration of how to dance, and stress the importance of a well made product, not necessarily a beautiful choreography or the dancer is Russian and make ten thousand turns, but one that combines technical and aesthetic elements of dance performances and film.

Alejandro de Leon has participated in numerous staged in Mexico and abroad, and more than five years exploring the possibilities of video, his training in dance has been performed in Mexico and New York. He currently serves on Flak companies and Canadian Marie Chouinard.