Designing a choreographic movement matrix: the intermedia relationship between stage and screen

Abstract

In this thesis, I examine the movement connections between stage and screen through my own hybrid works, Somnolence and Fraction ( contemporary dance and videodance within live performance). I suggest that a hybrid work and process renders a work intermedia, and that the intertwining of these mediums through the process give rise to an intermedial work that is greater than the sum of its parts. Additionally, I argue that there is something even more foundational embedded in the hybrid process: a web of connections that exist across the mediums. I assert that it is this web of connections (what I call a matrix, or matrices) that is made between mediums that allows for the hybrid work to be perceived and experienced as a whole.