"SCAR, the dance-on-film exhibition created by artistic director of Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub Cadi McCarthy and photographer Ashley de Prazer, takes its name from remnants of human interaction with the natural world: an interplay often leaving scars of presence long after humans depart. However, the name also references how film interacts with the dancing body, archiving relics of human presence: scars of what was once performed live. As the technological and digital worlds have expanded, filming dance has become rich with possibilities, for artists and audiences alike. Dance companies stream performances, hoping to widen their outreach and democratise their audiences. Independent artists build digital followings through lo-fi home recordings. Although dance purists have continued to disavow much cine-dance as a dubious facsimile of the original live show, the last two years of worldwide lockdown have disrupted the live vs digital dance performance hierarchy. Consequently, dance and film have been propelled into an unavoidable creative partnership, and artists of both mediums have pushed formal and conceptual boundaries with a previously unseen urgency."