Music videos featuring dance - inspiration

Poliça – “Wandering Star”

Description: The video unifies a strong grouping of contemporary dancers who one-by-one attempt to raise an elderly woman from her emotional slumber.

As they engage the woman, who seems like an artist past her prime, she slowly comes to life once again, shared sensuality leading her to eventually participate in movement herself.

The setting is raw — with dancers wearing bodysuits in a stripped room and projections shot onto white sheets

The video is a display of human intimacy through a diversity of dance styles.

Verbatim that inspired the video “In a modern, tragic twist on the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a brilliant, elderly artist, alone in her studio, is surrounded by memories of past paintings/loved ones who come to life to inspire her final masterpiece: her own death.”

Visual elements

Camera

• Lots of tracking shots, (in and out crabbing), build tension

• close ups on specific body parts.

• wide variety of angles

• contrast between static shots and fast yet smooth camera tracks

• soft focus

Editing

• fades between different moments of the dance.
• frequent cuts between all angles.

Lighting

• Soft lighting
• very tranquil and pure.
• Use of projections on white curtains.

Costume

• animal like costumes, fur legs, tattoos, and patterns all over body.
• Elegant old fashioned clothing and overly made up appearance.
• Use of paint on the woman
• pure white ballerina costumes, covered in paint.
• motif of paint. Dribbling over the woman, and all over the dancers.