Alex Springer & XanBurley, USA, 2008

“The Parlor” takes its inspiration from the room in which it was filmed: a stately antiquated parlor in a country club. The two dancers play with court dancing and formal social dance, and then expand to play with the nooks and crannies of the room.

Jody Oberfelder, USA, 2008

A playful piece filled with newspapers and cut-out letters, Snew suggests connections via language that is not yet tangible: the life that happens in between bits of information in a media saturated world.

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Daniel Robinson, USA, 2009

A woman dancing on a rooftop waivers between self doubt and determination. Daniel Robinson comes to UMOVE via Broadway, where he recently appeared in ‘Hairspray’ and the silver screen, where he stars in the ‘Big Gay Musical’.

*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival

Ally Voye, USA, 2007

This is a dynamic study of flying and falling. A beautiful executed example of a work whose splashes of movement were specifically designed for the screen. RED was made at MediaNet’s 2007 Dance for the Camera workshop with Victoria Marks Ellen Bromberg.

*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival

Natalya Nikolaeva, Russia/Finland, 2007

*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival

Zachary Whittenburg, USA, 2009

This video utilizes Apple iMovie and the .3gp codec to create a once-removed documentation of a single-shot dance improvisation by Zachary Whittenburg.

Lindsay Drury, USA, 2009

A deadpan how-to on the sell-out, complete with a self-important, pseudo-British voice-over on identity. Includes a fixed camera, masking-taped private parts, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins singing “There’s Something Wrong with You!”

Sabine Klaus, Scotland, 2009

Created for DFA’s “What Moves You 48 Hour Challenge,” this 4th submission by Sabine Klaus was inspired by the same event as Marisa C. Hayes’ “Gaffe“. Intended as an analogy between document loss and memory loss, sound and picture stutter among four elderly people with dementia.

Heidi Duckler, USA, 2009

60 seconds isn’t enough time to do justice to what was apparently a rich stage event, with kick ass production values, and a tantalizing smorgasbord of psychologically loaded scenes. Please, professor, don’t make me lie on that bike rack!