Tiktok and Short-Form Screendance Before and After Covid
TikTok and Short-Form Screendance Before and After Covid Moderator: Alexandra Harlig, University of Maryland, College Park Crystal Abidin, Curtin University Trevor Boffone, University of Houston Kelly Bowker, University of California, Riverside Colette Eloi, University of California, Riverside Pamela Krayenbuhl, University of Washington Tacoma Chuyun Oh, San Diego State University This roundtable was presented on 12 March 2021 as part of the symposium connected to this special issue, This Is Where We Dance Now: Covid-19 and the New and Next in Dance Onscreen. It has been edited for clarity and length. The video of the full roundtable conversation and Q+A is viewable at: https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v12i0.8348 Photo by Elena Benthaus, used with permission. Design by Regina Harlig. The International Journal of Screendance 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v12i0.8348 © 2021 Harlig, Abidin, Boffone, Bowker, Eloi, Krayenbuhl, & Oh. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ HARLIG, ABIDIN, BOFFONE, BOWKER, ELOI, KRAYENBUHL, OH: TIKTOK AND SHORT-FORM SCREENDANCE 191 Keywords: Covid-19, TikTok, Dubsmash, dance challenges, popular screendance, appropriation, platform specificity, congregational global body, #Jerusalema, Zoomers, #Blacklivesmatter, influencer, Dance Central, face dance, algorithm, viral, privilege, entrapment Alexandra Harlig: I’m very excited to be moderating tonight as we discuss dance on TikTok and other short form video platforms as they have developed over the last year in particular. Our presenters will each give short remarks and then I’ll pose some questions and we'll have some time for questions from the audience at the end.
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