DEVIANT DANCE

High Culture Dance Forms in Music Video

Video Lecture

by

Dr. Cornelia Lund

(HfK Bremen/fluctuating images, Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Holger Lund

(fluctuating images, Berlin)

Popular dance forms have always been an integral part of music videos. Indeed, there are even dance classes teaching “MTV style” dance, meaning steps and choreographies from music videos, in a direct reference to the TV channel for music videos. Typically, the form or genre of dance chosen for a music video matches the music. There are, however, instances where videos present unexpected, so to speak deviant forms of dance coming from the context of so-called “high culture,” such as ballet, but also modern or contemporary dance. This video lecture showcases and analyses music videos from a wide array of styles, from hip-hop to metal, trying to find out why they work with these forms of “deviant” high-cultural dance.

Thursday, 20.06.2024, 18:15 // Medientheater der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin // Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin

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DR CORNELIA LUND is a Berlin-based art and media scholar and curator. She has worked for years in research and teaching, mainly on documentary and audiovisual artistic practices, design theory, and de- and postcolonial theories (including at HU Berlin, University of the Arts Bremen, HAW Hamburg, PUC São Paulo). 2012–2018 she has been a research fellow in a DFG project on German documentary cinema (University of Hamburg), in 2019 she co-curated the exhibition and research project Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin); currently she is a Research Fellow at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her publications include Design der Zukunft (2014), The Audiovisual Breakthrough (2015), as well as the online platforms Post-digital Culture (2016–), Lund Audiovisual Writings (2017), and decolonial.etc.br as the result of a workshop at PUC SP (2021–).

PROF DR HOLGER LUND works as an art and design researcher and as a curator and DJ. In 2011 he began his duties as full professor of Media Design, Art and Cultural Studies at the Ravensburg University of Cooperative Education. His research focuses on media art, design research and music visualization. His publications include Audio.Visual – On Visual Music and Related Media (2009), Design der Zukunft (2014), The New People. Musik als Seismograph (2014), lundaudiovisualwritings (2017), as well as several publications on Turkish pop music, including its visual aspects (2011–ongoing). In addition, he runs the music label Global Pop First Wave, dedicated to non-Western pop history, especially Turkish pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. 

Since 2004, Cornelia and Holger are running fluctuating images, an independent and non-commercial platform for media art, design and music.

Im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Mediendramaturgie (Dr. Florian Leitner) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Seminar Entangled – Tanz, Film, Performance (Dr. Cornelia Lund) und mit fluctuating images, Berlin.