On December 13, 2018, “Dance Video ---- Pas de deux of Body and Lens”, an academic lecture and one of the 2018 science popularization series activities of “Chongqing Social Science Popularization Base”, was held in the lecture hall on the second floor of the School of Arts, Chongqing University at 4 p.m., attracting teachers and students of various majors, sister institutions such as Southwest University, exchange students from Taiwan and art enthusiasts. It was a lively event, and the lecture was a complete success.

Chen Yujie, visiting scholar from the University of Florida, USA, was invited to give a lecture on “Dance Video”. The lecture was divided into three parts. Firstly, Peng Xiaoxi, Associate Professor from the Department of Dance Performance and organizer of the event, introduced the speaker and the topic of the lecture, leading the audience to feel the artistic charm of the interplay between dance and new media from a cross-media perspective. Ms Chen then introduced the definition of dance video, exploration of forms and creation methods from the perspective of “live dance vs. screen dance”. The participants watched the representative works created by dance videos such as “Choreography Research for Camera” and “Rosas Danst Rosas”. In the end-of-lecture interaction, the audience felt for themselves, through the cell phone camera, how the audience and the filmmakers could create timely, simple and easy-to-use dance videos, and the artistic creation was within their reach through the live “body motion capture” exercise.

The successful event of “Pas de deux of Dance Video --- Body and Camera”, one of the series of popular science activities of the School of Arts, opened up interesting exploration for dance video for the general public, expanded the artistic vision of teachers and students in universities, promoted the integration of ideas among students of various majors, as well as academic exchanges of dance performance among sister institutions.