Posts Tagged ‘education’
Girl Walk // All Day: Screening + Conversation
Presented by Skillshare:
Skills: Idea development, Marketing a creative project, Creative risk-taking
About the Class
Part conversation and part film screening, this class will discuss the concept development, making-of, and marketing of the musical dance film Girl Walk // All Day. Director, Jacob Krupnick and Producer, Youngna Park, will speak about transforming a creative idea into a crowd-funded and web-distributed feature-length film. Specifically, they’ll cover:
+ Knowing when to take the plunge with a big idea
+ Producing a film with a lean team + small footprint
+ Developing a web identity for a creative project
+ How to use the crowd as your best tool
The conversation will be followed by a screening of the film and a Q+A session.
$15 This is a BYOB event. Cups + snacks will be provided.
Go to Skillshare to sign up.
Grind
419 Park Ave South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY
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Two Sundays of Kinetic Cinema
Kinetic Cinema is back!
This Sunday choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke will present a screening and discussion at Moviehouse on the ways artists form relationships and navigate their personal lives and their art. The following Sunday dance filmmaker Zena Bibler will teach a down and dirty DIY dance film-making workshop at Green Space Studio in Long Island City.
Exploring Artistic Relationships
A screening and discussion with Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Moviehouse @ 3rd Ward
Sunday November 13th, 7pm Doors and Food, 8pm Screening
$5 suggested donation
In research for her new piece, Vandenbroucke’s program will examine artists’ relationships between personal partnership and artistic practice. From documentaries and films featuring New York based artists like Patti Smith and John Cage, freedom and commitment, presence and absence, public and private, mobility and stability will be questioned and the debate will be recorded.
3rd Ward (map)
195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
718.715.4961
events@3rdward.com
The One-person Crew: Techniques and strategies for getting it all done yourself
Kinetic Cinema Workshop with Zena Bibler
Green Space
Sunday November 20th, 3-6pm
$30 in advance, $35 at the door
Want to make a dance film but don’t know where to start? In this workshop filmmaker and choreographer, Zena Bibler will teach strategies for making dynamic films through use of camera positioning, perspective, rhythm, and movement composition. This workshop is especially geared towards dance filmmakers interested in filming and editing themselves. Register Now!
Green Space (directions)
37-24 24th St. Suite 301
Long Island City, NY 11101
718.956.3037
Dance Film Lab Master Class at DNA
Camera Operation and Shooting Strategies with Amy Greenfield & Jeremiah Story
Amy Greenfield
DNA (Dance New Amsterdam)
280 Broadway, Studio 6 (entrance on Chambers)
New York, NY 10007
212.625.8369
October 12, 2011
7:30-10:00pm
Topics will include: basic understanding of camera operation, shooting strategies, and concrete concepts and methods to enable artists to have a more formalized approach to their filming process.
$10 for Dance Films Association or DNA Members; $25 fee for Non-Members.
RSVP to brighid@dancefilms.org with Dance Film Lab in the subject line to reserve your place.
For more information visit the Dance Films Association website
Next Dance Film Lab events:
November 7- Dance Film Lab Screening
November 19 & 20- Moviehouse presents: Curated Screening of works by Dance Film Lab Participants
Dance Film Lab Events at Dance New Amsterdam
Organized and directed by Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects, the Dance Film Lab is a community-building, monthly series for dance filmmakers to gather; share information, methods, and tools; and address technical, practical and artistic challenges.
The Lab has three distinct facets:
- Moderated Screenings, which bring dance filmmakers together to present raw footage, drafts, works-in-progress and newly finished films to their peers for artist-centered, constructive feedback.
- Practicum Sessions where artists gather for hands-on, in-depth skill-building centered on peer-to-peer exchanges of techniques, methodologies and knowledge.
- Master Classes led by top professionals focusing on filming/production, post-production and distribution.
Dance Film Lab is a program of Dance Films Association, hosted by Dance New Amsterdam, and funded by LMCC’s Fund for Creative Communities.
The Lab is free to all DFA and DNA members– with DFL Masterclasses offered at the significantly discounted rate of $10.
Next Dance Film Lab event:
August 15 – 7:00-9:00 pm
Practicum with Zach Morris
Lighting/3 Point Lighting
DNA: 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) | New York, NY 10007
Jacob’s Pillow Launches “Dance Interactive”
I am juiced about Jacob’s Pillow’s innovative new Dance Interactive in which 70 years of archival footage from the festival is now available for viewing anywhere.
This ground-breaking video collection, just launched on March 28th, has been designed to draw users into the Jacob’s Pillow Archive and make it easy and fun to navigate through the site. One can start out looking at Kyle Abraham, and then a few clicks later be watching Shantala Shivalingappa and Anna Duncan from 1942. For a dance lover, this site could start to consume as much of your time as Facebook or Twitter.
From a technical point of view, the site is surprisingly sophisticated behind its clean and simple looking design. Users can access videos via four main pathways: Artist, Genre, Era, and Guess (a fun quiz that tests user’s dance literacy). Each video is only one minute long, which provides just enough time to make you want to see more (while keeping them within Fair Use Law and avoiding a lot of legal hassle). For now, there is no advanced search function where you can type in an artist’s name or key word and get results, but this will most likely be added when more content has been uploaded. For now, the site functions to give users a taste of the archives and encourage them to visit them in person on site if they want to really delve into the artist or the material.
Dance Interactive started as a physical kiosk on-site at Jacob’s Pillow for people to be able to peruse the archives without having to go in and bother an intern to get out the works. The original Dance Interactive was designed as a touch screen, and the site today has kept that tactile feeling so it translates well to the iPad and other tablet and mobile devices. As one can imagine, selecting a one minute clip from each artist would be difficult, and Norton Owen, Jacob’s Pillow Director of Preservation is responsible for selecting all of the excerpts and writing thoughtful text descriptions that help contextualize the content. Given the vastness of the task, for now the Virtual Pillow Team is aiming to upload a video a week as well as include all current and future programming as it happens at the Pillow.
The video content itself is beautifully shot and looks great on screen. Many of the clips are viewable in HD and can be projected for a classroom presentation without looking too pixelated. On the backend, the site was built on Drupal and designed by ClearMetrics, NYC. All the video is hosted by Vimeo, which gives it stability and flexibility for customizing the player and changing the files easily.
In an era when to exist at all means to exist online, Jacob’s Pillow’s Dance Interactive has breathed new life into dance history for audiences everywhere. Although this collection only represents dance that has passed through Jacob’s Pillow, I hope that it inspires many other dance institutions to dust off their vaults and open up their archives to become part of the living networked world.
