DEVIANT DANCE: 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.
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–).
