Aaron Granat

Birthday:

07/06/1984

Place of birth:

Newton, Massachusetts, USA:

Biography:

Aaron Granat is a video producer and screendance artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. He works with the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Division of the Arts, where he creates short documentary films that highlight arts research, creative practice, and artistic communities across campus and beyond. Alongside this work, Granat maintains an active artistic practice in screendance and live visual performance, using the cinematic medium to expand perceptual horizons through the intermediation of dance, music, and image. His projects explore how movement, space, and sound can be reconfigured on screen to create immersive, mind-opening experiences. His screendance work has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries in South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, and throughout the United States. Granat brings nearly a decade of teaching experience in video production at UW–Madison. He has worked closely for many years with Li Chiao-Ping, documenting her productions and collaborating on projects that bring her choreography and artistic vision to the screen, as well as with numerous UW–Madison dance faculty in translating their work into screendance.