Below is an ongoing list of up-coming dance film festival and funding submission deadlines. Please feel free to contact me if you have a call for submissions to post.

— Anna Brady Nuse

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

JULY:

Festival Internacional de Videodanza Chile (July 5)
The Festival Internacional de Videodanza Chile is looking for dance-for-camera submissions for their new project: VDTV, a televised dance-film festival.

“This will be an opportunity to [reach] a heterogenous public, to create new hearing, motivate the creation of emerging artists, promote the production of contemporary, experimental, hybrid, and transmedial art.”

Deadline: July 5, 2010
*Works should not exceed 7 minutes.

São Carlos Video Dance Festival – Brazil (July 20)
São Carlos Videodance Festival is looking for videos and films of any length for an upcoming festival at Universidade Federal de São Carlos. There is no entry fee, limit to number of submissions, or length restriction.

Click here for more information.

Dancescreen 2010 at Cinedans

Cinedans and the IMZ cordially invite you to participate in the 12th international festival and competition, Cinedans 2010: December 8-12, 2010.

Focusing on excellence and innovation, the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 competition forms the centre of the festival, which thus will culminate in the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 Award Gala, presenting the ‘Dioraphte Cinedans jury award’ of € 7.500,- and the ‘Dioraphte Student Encouragement Award’ of € 2.000,-

You may submit your work(s) in the following categories:

A) Live performance relay
Multi-camera relay of a live dance performance
B) Camera re-work
Adaptation of an existing choreography
C) Screen choreography
Television/film/data productions with a choreography specifically created for the screen, movement based video clips, experimental films, animation & fiction
D) Documentary
Profile or feature of e.g. a choreographer, a dance company, dance history, etc.

Competition Rules, Online entry form, Online personal registration form are to be found on: dance screen

Premio Videodanza Barcelona (July 30)

The Videodance, Barcelona Prize is an international competition designed to recognize those most relevant works of the audiovisual creation with the body, movement and choreographic language as significant elements of the content and form of the film.

NU2’s team will do a selection among all the registered works to compete for the Videodansa, Barcelona Prize. All the selected works will be projected at the program of IDN – Image, Dance and New media – festival which will take place from 13 to 16 January 2011 at the Mercat de les Flors of Barcelona.

The prize, worth € 4,000 will be awarded for a single work or a maximum of two ex aequo and it will be given during IDN. In addition to the Prize, an international jury of curators and artists will select between 6 and 10 distinguished works that will become part of the public initiatives of diffusion of NU2’s association.

The acceptance of the prize involves the transfer of the broadcasting rights at TVC’s (Public Television of Catalonia) Territoris Dansa and the projection at curated programs by NU2’s during 2011 on Spain.

The diffusion initiatives of NU2?S – sales at media libraries, curated screening programs, broadcasting at TV, etc. ..- that incorporate part or all of the distinguished selection of IDN will entail the payment of the rights under contractual agreements with authors / distributors.

See NU2’s website for more information

AUGUST:

DanceDigital

Call for Submissions

DanceDigital invites proposals for Commissions, Bursaries and Associate Artists that
develop the theme of Digital Environments.

DanceDigital has 3 commissions of £7,000 each available and is also recruiting 2 new
Associate Artists; one to be resident in Essex and one in Hertfordshire. The Artist Bursary program makes £1,500 available to an emerging artist.

To download an application form for Commissions, Associate Artists or Artist Bursaries please visit http://DanceDigital.org.uk. Please include 3 examples of your past work along with your application. Examples of work can be submitted either as links to projects online or on DVD. Please ensure that the links/DVD?s you send us are of sufficient quality (i.e. don?t send us a poor quality DVD!). The examples you give us will be used to select successful applicants.

Application due August 13th

SEPTEMBER:

One-minute Dance Film (Sept 15)

Cinedans and the Nederlandse Dansdagen are looking for extraordinary dance films that are precisely one minute long and have dance as their central theme. Winners will be shown on television during the program NPS Podium!

Videos must be sent to info@nederlandsedansdagen.nl before September 15, 2010.

OCTOBER:

Dance on Camera Festival 2011

Deadline for 2011 Festival: October 1, 2010

On-line entry form to be posted in July, 2010

Co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, TenduTv and Mark Morris Dance Center since 2010, Dance On Camera Festival celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Susan Braun began this festival in 1971 to connect dance film producers with users and distributors, to spur dancers on to preserve their work on film and to collaborate with filmmakers. For the last ten years, DFA’s Festival has offered a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their touring program.

The International Journal of Screendance: Volume Three

The editorial board of the International Journal of Screendance is pleased to announce an OPEN CALL for submissions for our third issue to be published October 2011. We are inviting artists and scholars to join us in crafting a rigorous and imaginative dialogue about the possibilities of movement and bodies on screens. We strongly believe that an interesting and productive discourse on screendance will include ideas from many different disciplines and perspectives. Those interested in contributing to this new journal published online and in hard copy should consult http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/screendance for details.

ONGOING SUBMISSIONS (No deadlines)

DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION

We have a new opportunity to show films in Dance New Amsterdam’s lobby. We started with a video loop created for the Gallery of the Walter Reade Theatre for Dance on Camera Festival. However, we are planning the coming months programming. Let us know if you would like to have your title included for this non-paying installation.
info@dancefilms.org
dancefilms.org
Contact info@dancehouse.org

DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP

DTW has a new Members Only section of their website, and one of the features is a Member Video of the Week. The Video of the Week allows members of Dance Theater Workshop to share video based work with their fellow members. Videos are prominently displayed on the Members Only Welcome Page for one week; there is no fee to participate in Video of the Week. The videos are posted in the order they are received and are non-currated

Guidelines for Submission

• Videos must be hosted by a third party site such as YouTube or Vimeo. Video dimensions should be no larger than 425px x 355px
• To submit your video, email the html embedding code provided by the site as well as credits for the video to richert@dtw.org . Please do not send original files.

Policies
Videos are posted on the Dance Theater Workshop site in the order they were received and are non-curated. Videos should be high quality and resolution; members are notified if Dance Theater Workshop is unable to host the video due to low quality. The video of the week is intended for work created for the camera; documentation of live performances will not be posted. Members may submit one video per month.

Essential Dance Film on iTunes / Tendu.tv

Marc Kirschner, General Manager of TenduTV is looking for submissions for the second edition of “Essential Dance Film”, a videodance series on iTunes (available in the US and Canada).

If you are interested in having one of your films included, please send the following information to mkirschner@tendu.tv:

Name of film:
Director:
Choreographer:
Format:
Master format available:
Length:
Screening history and awards:
Website:
Link to clip (if available):

Also, please confirm that you have all subsidiary rights (eg. music) or can obtain subsidiary rights to all of the elements included within the film.

F R A M E W O R K S

Dance film Series
at Galapagos Art Space Brooklyn, NY
Rolling deadlines

Mission
Frameworks seeks to provide a vital, consistent and supportive stage for presenting new works of dance film from across the country. The films will be chosen for their creativity within the cinematic medium and excellence in choreography with a special focus on smaller budget films that do not otherwise have the opportunity to be seen or appreciated.

Eligibility
We are seeking original works of choreography for the camera, less than 20 minutes in length, and created in the last five years. We have adopted a loose definition of “dance film” that includes any work in which the movement is paramount, and created specifically for the camera. Documentaries will not be considered.

Although the first screening in summer 2008 will be restricted to New York based artists and companies, the subsequent screenings will showcase work from everywhere. So please, submit now and your film will be considered on a rolling basis.

For more information and to download application go to: http://www.frameworksdance.org/

FEAST

Welcome to our new initiative Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST), a multi-disciplinary, community-based artist grant. For info on proposals and volunteering, email feastinbklyn@gmail.com

It won’t be a FEAST without you. Can’t wait to break bread.

FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers.

At each FEAST, participants will pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they will receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded funds collected through the entrance fee to produce the project. The work will then be presented during the next FEAST.

For more info on the next feast go to: http://feastinbklyn.org/

MOVIEHOUSE

Moviehouse wants your high-quality short films, music videos, animation, and performance video art.

What types of movies are we looking for? In short, if its quality, we’ll screen it. We’re looking for work that pushes the boundaries of traditional filmmaking in new and readily accessible ways. A special emphasis is placed on work that includes performance and allows the audience to interact. Edgy experimental art pieces, original comedies, thoughtful dramas, and creative music videos are all welcome, 13 minutes of self-indulgence or three minutes of your cat sleeping are not. If you know it’s good and it has to get in front of an audience to be complete, please send it in.

For more information, visit http://www.brilliantp.com/moviehouse/submit/

Third Rail Projects Dance Film Lab at DTW

The Dance Film Lab is moderated and organized by Zach Morris (Third Rail Projects) in cooperation with the Dance Films Association. Hosted by Dance Theater Workshop, this salon brings dance filmmakers together to present raw footage, drafts, works-in-progress and newly finished films to their peers for constructive feedback, to share information, and address technical, practical and artistic challenges. The lab is free and open to the public, though reservations are necessary.

Contact Zach Morris for more information and to RSVP.

Educational Opportunities

Empac Live.Media+Performance.Lab

August 16-22
Résumé and informal letter of application are due June 30, 2010

EMPAC will present its first summer lab for interactive media in performance this August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.

The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing).

More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website.

Wayne Sables Project: FREE Filmmaking Program
There are 13 spaces left in Wayne Sable’s Free Filmmaking Project in the UK.

LOIKKA Experimental/Dance Filmmaking workshop in Helsinki, Finland

Here’s an exciting workshop directed by filmmakers David Hinton (UK) and Alla Kovgan (USA). If you’re in Finland, check it out!
More info:
MADProduction and Muu ry. organizes an intensive one-week workshop on dance and experimental ?lm. Workshop is bringing together different professional artists in the ?elds of dance, ?lm and performance art and helping these artists to work together and learn to speak the same language when making their artworks. The aim of the workshop is to raise the knowledge and standard of experimental ?lmmaking in Finland, focusing on using movement, dance and performance art as a source of artistic method with a recognizably pro?cient outcome. The ?ve day workshop emphasizes the co-operative work with the different disciplines and professional ?elds; dance, performance art, ?lm, sound, camera, editing. It will deliver various cross-disciplinary exercises in experimental ?lmmaking. It is geared toward drawing upon the expertise and experience of internationally acclaimed teachers and practitioners in the ?eld.The workshop consists of lectures, viewing selected ?lm excerpts, practical exercises in ?lm making, analyses and feedback. More info on the workshop content and application form will be found from www.loikka.?

Application deadline 6th August 2010!

Master of Fine Arts With an Emphasis on Screendance

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art offers an interdisciplinary graduate degree in which the student may create a unique curriculum and program of study that supports their particular area of practice or research. To that end, in 2010, Professor Douglas Rosenberg will begin working with a limited number of graduate students in the area of Screendance. Students will have access to a diverse and accomplished faculty working across disciplines including performance, video, installation and digital media. Additionally, they will have access to the UW Madison Dance Department and it’s faculty including choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, theorist and historian Dr. Andrea Harris and others.

The practice of screendance will be situated within a larger context of the visual arts and will include theoretical components, historical analysis, critical writing, creative practice and studio based production in screen performance.

The UW Madison has held a number of significant conferences and symposia on screendance and will be the home of the forthcoming International Journal of Screendance.

Please contact Douglas Rosenberg at rosend@education.wisc.edu with questions and, for more information, see the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School web site at: http://www.grad.wisc.edu/

Also, the UW Madison Department of Art: http://art.wisc.edu/?folder=home and the Dance Program at: http://www.dance.wisc.edu/

AFTRS Graduate Certificate in Screen Culture

“Ideas are the most powerful force shaping our screen industry and culture. This unique AFTRS Graduate Certificate is all about ideas– where they have come from, how they have changed over time and their impact on the screen work we make and view. The course gives students the opportunity to discover and contribute to the ideas about stories, creativity, audiences and process that shape screen production. It develops students to function in a range of roles, including: critics, commentators, dramaturges, festival directors, teachers, administrators or project officers. It also strengthens and sharpens the creative and analytic skills of practitioners, particularly creative producers and directors, developing their understanding of the broader culture in which they work, and the forces acting upon them as they perform their roles. Through discussions, screenings, exercises, guest presentations and seminars, students encounter, debate and develop their own ideas about shaping our screen culture.” for more information, go to http://makeit.aftrs.edu.au/int-screenculture.html