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Germany’s SideBySide Art Center has announced the commencement of their 6th annual Online Dance Festival. Finalists include Sol Shin & Sunghwa Kim, Wilkie Branson, Rosane Chamecki, Andrea Lerner, Phil Harder, Arantxa Sagardoy, Laura Keil, Aafke De Jong and Jaciel Neri.

Vote for your favorite video on their website.

Tim Cynova (Deputy Director Fractured Atlas) and Sydney Skybetter (Co-Founder Design Brooklyn) have teamed up to create a new uStream video broadcast titled Sky/Nova:15.

Sky/Nova:15 will be streaming conversations centered around dance/arts, media/culture, and technology with the occasional absurdity (Arts administrator trading cards? Astronaut ice cream and hover chairs as part of the arts-going experience in 75 years?).  This week Sky/Nova:15 will be microbroadcasting from the 2010 Dance/USA national conference in Washington, D.C. June 16-19.  Expect a handful of special interviews from the ranks of national and international Dancilluminati (dance world rock stars).

Video, live webchat and archived episodes are available at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/skynova15. You can also view via iPhones/Androids by downloading the free Ustream Viewer app.

Here are the “showtimes”:
Wednesday, June 16, 5:15-5:30PM, “Afternoon Anarchy …and Cocktails”
Thursday, June 17, 8:30-8:45AM, Morning Coffee
Thursday, June 17, 6:15-6:30PM, “Afternoon Anarchy …and Cocktails”
Friday, June 18, 8:30-8:45AM, Morning Coffee
Friday, June 18, 5:30-5:45PM, “Afternoon Anarchy …and Cocktails”
Saturday, June 19, 8:30-8:45AM, Morning Coffee (and maybe Mimosas)

Guests and updates will be announced on Twitter via @SkyNova15

9th Annual DANCE CAMERA WEST Dance Media Film Festival

June 4-27, 2010  Los Angeles, CA

Dance Camera West’s annual city-wide Dance Media Film Festival offers contemporary dance for screen, documentary films, dance installations, dance technology symposia, panel discussions and workshops all under the mission of “merging performance and cinematic aesthetics from around the world”.

4 Reasons to Participate:

1. The variety of work is vast (see 2010 Festival trailer below)

2. The quality of work is inspiring (see 2009 Audience Choice Award Weightless by Erika Janunger)

3. The West Coast Premiere of director Anne Linsel’s Tanztraüme (Dancing Dreams), a documentary film following Wuppertal dance students working with the late Pina Bausch. Saturday June 12th 7:00 pm, Hammer Museum.

4. Panel Discussion: Choreography In Media with Chuck Maldonado (Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming), Kim Blank (Frankie and Alice), and Lula Washington (Avatar). Wednesday June 16 7:00-9:00pm, Screen Actors Guild .

4 Ways to Participate:

1. Attend DCW festival screenings and workshops
2. Become a DCW Member (includes special DVD release offers)
3. Engage via the DCW festival twitter feed
4. Submit your work for 2011 Festival

The Spring 2010 screening of FRAMEWORKS will take place tomorrow, May 27th at Dance New Amsterdam and will feature new dance films from Brooklyn, Finland, North Carolina, Sweden and beyond!

Thursday, May 27 | 8pm
Dance New Amsterdam
$5 online, $10 at the door
Click here for info and tickets

“YouTube is no prude when it comes to art — when it actually takes the time to appreciate the work. After censorship watchdogs gave the video hosting giant a public undressing for its removal of videos by artist Amy Greenfield that contained nudity, the company made amends.” Los Angeles Times , 2/26/10

Still from Club Midnight

In February when YouTube removed Greenfield’s videos, including sections from “Club Midnight/Against Censorship” she was outraged at such censorship of art, placing it mistakenly in the category of “pornography”. The absence of any way to appeal directly to YouTube impelled Greenfield to contact the National Coalition Against Censorship. Supporting her work, and agreeing that the issue is very important for filmmakers, the NCAC, with the leading internet civil rights organization, Electronic Frontier Foundation, went up against the internet giant to help bring to light the issue of YouTube/Google’s censorship of nudity. With an outpouring of press and public support on the internet, You Tube, in an unprecedented and potentially ground-breaking decision, restored Greenfield’s films to their site, unrestricted, recognizing her use of nudity as art.

Come out April 3rd to celebrate Greenfield’s victory for all artists that explore nudity in their work.

NewFilmmakers Spring Fest presents
Amy Greenfield’s CLUB MIDNIGHT/AGAINST CENSORSHIP
80 Minutes, 35mm, 16mm. and Video?
Saturday, April 3, 2010 8:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street
Admission: $6.00
Contact: Robert Haller, 212-505-5010, extension 12, robert@antholoogyfilmarchives.net

Greenfield’s light-struck dancers in award-winning Club Midnight/Against Censorship, at NewFilmmakers Spring Fest in 35mm., Cinemascope and double projection – with Greenfield and Svetlana Mintcheva of the National Coalition Against Censorship present to discuss video/dance, nudity, censorship and the internet with the audience.

Visit www.newfilmmakers.com, www.clubmidnight.net