A highlight of a my summer holidays this year was to spend 3 days hanging out with some of my closest friends and colleagues working in screendance. Initiated 10 years ago by myself and Claudia Kappenberg (University of Brighton), through a successful AHRC funding bid,...

Still from Paysages Mixtes | Mixed Landscapes (2019), performed and directed by Katrina McPherson and Harold Rheaume. Image: Brian Hartley.

Having had its Scottish premiere at the Rise Festival in Moray in May 2019, I am delighted to say that Paysages Mixtes/Mixed Lands...

I am really excited to announce that the new edition of Making Video Dance - a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen is now available to pre-order on amazon and other on-line sites. Release date is 17th September 2018. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making...

This took place between 7th – 13th July 2018. 

Look out for new dates for Summer 2019.

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A rare opportunity to spend 5 days engaging with the creative and practical possibilities of making dance for the screen, under the guidance of the internationally-acclaimed, awa...

Last week I spent a very enjoyable few days in Salt Lake City as the guest of Professor Ellen Bromberg at the University of Utah, where I gave a public talk and taught a workshop to the graduate screeen dance students. Here is an inightful article on my visit by Kate M...

I recently heard the exciting news that screen dance short Pace (director Katrina McPherson/dancer-choreographer Marisa Zanotti/composer Phillip Jeck) is now included on the BFI player, a presentation of the best global cinema on-demand, from classic to contemporary fi...

Quebec choreographer and Director of Le Fils d'Adrien dances, Harold Rheaume and I have just spend a very exciting and productive week together, creating the beginnings of a new work. We first collaborated in the 1990's on two dance films and had lost touch with each o...

I received funding from Creative Scotland to digitise all the screen dance works that I made between 1988-95. This is a still from Fragments II, a short video dance that I made with Vanessa Smith and Karen Grant of Randomoptic, the dance company that we set up together...

I am delighted to say that, after 20 years, I will be re-united with Quebec choreographer Harold Rheaume to create a new dance film. Photo credit: Daniel Richard.

 It was awesome to see we record ourselves on the 10 metre high Media Wall at Bath Spa University.