Special Edition of Participations: Screen Dance Audiences, Volume 7, Issue 2: Screendance 2.0: Social Dance-Media by Harmony Bench, The Ohio State University, USA.

Abstract: This essay argues that, as dance and screen media conjoined to create the hybrid art practice of dance-media, so too are dance-media and social media converging to produce an area of artistic experimentation I call social dance-media. This essay explores three strands of social dance-media — crowdsource, flash, and viral choreographies — and provides examples of each. Following protocols from social media, each of these modalities represents a form of participatory choreography or performance that evidences social media’s impression upon dance in contemporary popular culture.

Keywords: dance-media, social media, crowdsourcing, flash mobs, viral video, choreography, performance

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Special Edition of Participations: Screen Dance Audiences

We are pleased to announce a new special issue of Participations, the Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. This special edition includes articles from a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches discussing how audiences watch and engage with dance on screen; does screen dance, a form often articulated in terms of hybridity also promote new, hybrid forms of spectatorship?

Edited by Matthew Reason and Dee Reynolds, the special issue includes the following contents:

Reason, Matthew & Dee Reynolds (Guest Editors - Special Edition):
‘Special Issue Introduction’

David, Ann:
‘Dancing the diasporic dream? Embodied desires and the changing audiences for Bollywood film dance’

Pearlman, Karen:
‘If a dancing figure falls in the forest and nobody sees her…’

Reason, Matthew:
‘Thinking about Audiences: a dance film-maker’s perspective. An interview with Alex Reuben’

Wood, Karen:
‘An investigation into audiences’ televisual experience of Strictly Come Dancing’