Scotland’s festival of dance on screen est 2016. In partnership with Citymoves Dance Agency, Aberdeen since 2021. Curated by Simon Fildes and Iliyana Nedkova. Further support from Marlene Millar and Festival Quartiers Danses, Montreal

Let’s Chat About Screen Dance Writing

Screen dance writing masterclass led by Cara Hagan

FRIDAY 12 March 2021

16:00 – 17:00 GMT Live Q&A

This masterclass will take place on Zoom, please follow the link on your ticket

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Videostill from **Drawing Blank** 2013 5:32 min **Stefan Verna,** Director **Emily Honnegger,** Choreographer. Livestreamng as part of Screen.dance 2021 exclusive **With Love from Quebec and Festival Quartiers Danses**

For the first tme in our festival history, as part of Screen.dance 2021, we are offering two opportunities related to screen dance writing.

Let’s Write About Screen Dance – our screen dance writing programme for aspiring writers selected from our open call and led by dance writer Róisín O’Brien.

Let’s Chat About Screen Dance Writing – our screen dance masterclass led by dance writer Cara Hagan is for anyone interested in employing creative tactics to write artfully and with depth about screen dance and other art forms. This is also an opportunity to hear from Cara who will present excerpts of her writing which weaves the factual and the philosophical. In Cara’s own words:

This isn’t your literature composition class at Uni. It’s an opportunity to expand your mind, the reaches of your capacity to communicate, and a reminder of why art is so intoxicating.

Cara Hagan

Cara Hagan is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice exists at the intersections of movement, digital space, words, contemplative practice, and community. She is director and curator for ADF’s Movies by Movers, an annual, international film festival dedicated to the conversation between the moving body and the camera. Hagan is also co-creator of the new initiative, The Jounce Assemblage – a BIPOC, queer, Crip experimental film collective.

A recipient of many awards and grants, Hagan was most recently named the inaugural Community Commissioning Residency Award artist by the National Center for Choreography. Her writing on screendance and other topics can be found in the International Journal of Screendance, the Journal of Sustainable Eduaction, the Journal of Dance Education, and Snapdragon Journal of Art and Healing.

Let’s Chat About Screen Dance Writing

Screen dance writing masterclass led by Cara Hagan