Dancing with the camera
from Groovin' Griot Hosted by OreOluwa Badaki and Azsaneé Truss
On this episode, we dive into the world of screendance with Professor Gabri Christa. She shares how her multidisciplinary beginnings as a mover and a filmmaker in Curaçao, as well as her embodied research into her Surinamese roots, helped her find innovative ways to merge her cinematographic and choreographic work. We talk through what it means to take the moving body seriously within the moving image medium, and how both spirituality and technology play important roles in this process. For our movement break, we take you to a Media Movement Salon hosted by the Movement Lab at Barnard (which Professor Christa helped found). Special thanks to Tatiana Vasquez and Evelyn Chen for helping to record the audio! Find the episode transcript here Find episode resources here Produced & edited by OreOluwa Badaki and Azsaneé Truss with support from the Digital Futures Institute (DFI) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Check out more DFI podcasts here. Don't miss the upcoming launch of the Black and Asian Solidarity Collective's podcast with co-hosts Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and Dr. Judy Yu! Theme music: Unrest by ELPHNT on Directory.Audio Licensed under a creative commons attribution 3.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Follow us on Instagram @groovingriot
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- 0:00 Gabri Christa Episode 12.3.25 Rough Cut
- 0:32 Introduction
- 2:56 Beginnings as an multidisciplinary artist
- 8:15 Engaging dance and film ---Kankantri
- 12:25 Deciding how to tell a story through visualizing a feeling ---Horizinal Reality and Spiritual Presence
- 17:51 Filmmaking from embodied sensibility--the embodied camera
- 22:42 Use of technology in telling the story---do you need it?
- 24:14 Griots that inform your work
- 26:00 What are you groovin to?
- 28:14 bloopers
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