Drawing on the rubric of the ‘empowered performer - embodied camera - empathetic viewer’, the workshop will offer creative starting points and tools for developing screendance.
Katrina will lead participants through movement-based practical exercises and reflective viewing-based tasks, designed to encourage experimentation and awareness of the form. Katrina will share ideas and research drawn from her own directing and cinematography practice, including using improvisation to develop dance for the camera, as well as tips and techniques for filming the moving body.
Participants are welcome for any background and level of experience and should please wear clothes they can move in, a camera to film with and a notebook to write in. Some exercises will have the option to work outside.
Access
The Work Room studio is on the first floor of Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE, and can be accessed by lift or stairs. There is level access to the studio from the street. The Work Room has two gender-neutral wheelchair-accessible toilets, a kitchen with tea and coffee making facilities and a range of seating options (including chairs with and without arms, a comfy sofa, beanbags and ergonomic height-adjustable desk chairs). There are baby changing facilities on available on Tramways ground floor - accessible via a lift.
KINETIC
KINETIC is a new screendance platform rooted in Glasgow, founded by dance artists and filmmakers Monika Smekot and Lewis Landini. It brings together artists working across movement and screen, creating a space to experience, share and discuss screendance on its own terms. KINETIC celebrates screendance from Scotland and beyond, exploring the space between dance, film and live performance, and creating opportunities for artists and audiences to connect, exchange ideas and experience new work.
About
Katrina McPherson is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance and moving image. Her practice spans artist film, installation, documentary, and live contexts. Through embodied cinematography, improvisation and rigorous structural processes, she has developed an innovative artistic language that expands how movement, time and place are experienced. Over more than 35 years, from her home in Scotland, Katrina has directed a wide range of works created in collaboration with performers, choreographers, composers, and companies. The resulting works have been presented at festivals, galleries and venues worldwide and are held collections including LUX Artists’ Moving Image and Routledge’s Online Performance.
Over a period of 15 years, Katrina was a director of arts programmes for UK television, making films for the BBC, Scottish Television, ITV and Channel Four. Katrina received a Career Achievement Award at Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles in 2020; an Honorary Award at the Choreoscope Dance Film Festival in Barcelona (2022) and the Creative Scotland Award (2002). Her films have been the subject of several international retrospectives, including most recently at the Jumping Frames- Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival, November 2025.
Katrina has written widely about screendance and is the author of “Making Video Dance, a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen” (Routledge, 2019), the 3rd edition which will be released in early 2027. A much sought-after lecturer and mentor, Katrina teaches extensively and has initiated and facilitated numerous workshops, courses and symposia worldwide. Katrina was awarded a PhD by Published Works from Edinburgh Napier University in 2023. She is currently the Course Leader of the MA Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School and is a PhD supervisor at LCDS and University of the Arts London.
Image by Colin McPherson