Dance (Lens) 2025 Masterclasses

MASTERCLASSES: MOVING CAMERAS and SOUND!

Dance (Lens) Festival is offering two special 3-hour masterclasses with Takeshi Kondo and Darrin Verhagen to explore both practical and creative techniques, and approaches to enhance and expand your screendance making.

Workshops are suitable for all experience levels and for both dance and film artists. And at a minimum, can be undertaken with basic phone cameras/ recording.

All workshops are 3 hours (180 mins) with a 30 minute break mid-way through.

All Masterclass registrations include a Dance (Lens) Festival Pass granting full access to the Festival.

MOVING CAMERAS with Takeshi Kondo

1.30-5pm, Thursday 10 July

Celebrating the camera’s relationship with the moving body, this masterclass offers participants a way to play and think through the potential of the moving camera.

Participants should bring their own cameras (phones are fine) and are then welcome to use the gimbals, stabilisers, and a vest and shoulder rig provided by Takeshi during the workshop. Note that Dancehouse will also supply 2 gimbals for phones. 

SOUND! with Darrin Verhagen

1.30-5pm, Saturday 12 July

The great connector; sound is the ultimate companion of both choreography and cinema. As a sound designer and composer, Darrin Verhagen has worked across live performance and screendance for decades. Whether using diegetic sound, new compositions, pre recorded tracks, or creating something entirely new, this masterclass opens your ears and your mind to the sonic potential of your next creative work.