Dancing and dreaming: “Fifty Years of British Music Video” in Havana

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dc.contributor.authorCaston, Emily
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Justin
dc.contributor.editorCaston, Emilyen
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T08:34:45Z
dc.date.available2020-07-24T08:34:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis report reflects on a follow-on initiative from the AHRC-funded project “Fifty Years of British Music Video” designed to explore a collaboration between Cuba’s dance, film, and music cultures to create non-performance-based dance videos. Facilitated by service company Island Pictures, we worked with a young director, Giselle Garcia Castro, dancers at Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, and leading Cuban rap artist Telmary. The result was a single-shot video for Telmary’s “Soy el Verso” (2018), filmed in the dance studio, based on an improvisation guided by Giselle, and inspired by the José Martí poem in the song. The video fulfilled PI Caston’s ambition to break down the barrier between “dance film” and “music video” by building the choreography from the lyrics and making it the centre of the exercise. It endorsed Caston’s conceptual aim to encourage practitioners to identify and articulate their own narrative and iconography. The team also produced a fifteen-minute documentary of the process including interviews with filmmakers, teachers and students. The project demonstrated that academic collaboration with artistic communities can stimulate new creative practices and economic development. It also showed how creative industries researchers can use networks established by institutions such as the British Council and British Embassies to exchange media practice.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationCaston, E. and Smith, J. (2020) 'Dancing and dreaming: “Fifty Years of British Music Video” in Havana', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 19, pp. 184-194. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.19.16en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.19.16
dc.identifier.endpage194
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued19
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage184
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10287
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue19/DossierCaston_Smith.pdf
dc.rights© 2020, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectHidden screen industriesen
dc.subjectCommercialsen
dc.subjectMusic videoen
dc.subjectCreative industriesen
dc.subjectInterdependenciesen
dc.titleDancing and dreaming: “Fifty Years of British Music Video” in Havanaen
dc.typeArticle (non peer-reviewed)en
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