dança em foco is an event oriented toward the joint development of the languages of dance, movies and video, born from the observation that today dance, as other arts, finds in technology the possibility of creating new aesthetic parameters. Historically, the association between dance and movies dates back to the birth of the seventh art; however, the advent of video and the growing development of digital resources make the virtual image the perfect medium for the establishment of new expressive dance possibilities.

Videodance is an art form in full development in several countries of the world, uniting technology, dance and movies in works that receive immense exposure through festivals, direct distribution and TV shows. Videodance is definitively contemporary choreography’s farthest-reaching vehicle; its place in Brazil’s artistic scenario is growing visibly. Attempts to define this type of production are still precarious, unable to delineate the countless possibilities of creation. Videodance is commonly considered a hybrid product born from the dialogue between dance and video, where those languages become inseparable, like a choreographic piece that just exists on video and for video. However, we hesitate to call it “videodance”, “video dance”, or “video-dance”, not to mention other expressions that attempt to refer to it. A list of all the names used to define that which happens between dance and video may perhaps teach us something about the many poetical and aesthetical nuances crossing through this production. Forming a conception of video dance will continue to be the object of a long and perhaps always incomplete study. In the same way, it’s international and Brazilian (pre)history has hitherto only been roughly sketched.