Posts Tagged ‘frame’

There are a bunch of intriguing dance film & video events happening this month both here in New York City and around the world. Below is a list of some I’ve come across. I’ve grouped them by location with New York City and U.S. events first, then branching out internationally. If you know of some others to include feel free to comment here and share with the videodance community.

NEW YORK EVENTS:

PERFORMA07
The second Visual Art Performance Biennial
Oct 27 – Nov 20, 2007
http://07.performa-arts.org

Somehow I completely missed the first PERFORMA Biennial in 2005, but this year’s festival is chock full of must-sees. Below are the one’s I’ve earmarked involving dance and screen:

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Matt Gough replied to my call to action in “What’s in a Name?” and posted a couple responses on his tumblr, Quodlibet: here and here.

He asks: so i’m wondering how anna frames her work … why the preference for video dance, and what is her genre?

Well, as my blog is aptly titled, my frame moves around a lot. I
started out an experimentalist. I was just excited by what I could do
with a camera that I couldn’t do with live choreography. I was mostly
influenced by Maya Deren,
and her extensive experimentation with choreography for the camera. My
definitions of dance and choreography were always quite wide, but
having a camera to look through blew them open even further.  I could
capture movement wherever I found it and through editing I could shape
it anyway I chose. The movement didn’t need to be executed by humans. I
could create viewable dances literally out of anything, and in fact my
first two videodances were edited from footage of trash found on the
streets of Brooklyn.

< “Trash Processional”

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