Fifteenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

This study shares context for and content from the course “The Art of Athletics: Choreography for the Camera.” In this course, University students are guided to borrow movement from athletics, repurpose it through choreographic and cinematographic logics, and create a dance film. Most students in the class identify as athletes, not dancers, and the course encourages students to begin to identify the complexity of their athletics-based embodied knowledge and to think about how to re-articulate it both intellectually and re-contextualize it as a new aesthetic product, framed for the screen.