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2nd issue of The International Journal of Screendance
The 2nd issue of The International Journal of Screendance-Scaffolding the Medium is now available.
Scaffolding the Medium brings together a variety of historical texts within the context of screendance to both create a common knowledge base and also to support a kind of cantilevered interest. This issue opens with an edited transcript of a presentation by Professor Ian Christie in which Christie surveys a history of cinema under the title The Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented. This transcript is followed by five curated discussions on this initial idea as it relates to contemporary screendance.
Edited by Douglas Rosenberg and Claudia Kappenberg, this issue also features a report on the recent Screendance Symposium in Brighton by Claudia Kappenberg and Sarah Whatley.
60secondsdance Online Competition Call for Submissions
ONLINE SCREENDANCE COMPETITION 2012
UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY BY 01 March
60secondsdance.dk online screendance competition is a co-production of Dansens Dag and Screen Moves, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hosted on http://www.60secondsdance.dk and funded by Dansens Dag and Nordea-fonden, it aims to give screendance makers the opportunity to produce, through their lens, a one-minute online screendance video.
The winner and runner up as well as the final top ten videos, will have their work screened at the prize-winning event at Cinemateque – Danish Film Institute and the DFI’s Asta Bar Wall Screen. The videos will also be online at: Dansens Dag website, 60secondsdance.dk YouTube Channel, ScreenMoves Facebook page and the ScreenMoves Installation site in the Dansehallerne Foyer. Jeannette Ginslov, associate producer of www.dance-tech.net will interview the winner and runner up via skype, for MoveStream, an online channel dedicated to screendance.
For 2012, the theme is based on the notion of “time” or “tid”. Screendance makers are invited to choreograph, shoot and edit what “time” or “tid” means to them, what pace, rhythm, timing is, whether it be found in movement, the emotional, the physical, the body…
Prizes
First Prize is €1500 and the runner up €500
NO ENTRY FEE!
Deadlines
Competition opens: 01 December 2011
Closing Date for uploading video and forms: 01 March 2012 midnight
Top 30 announced online: 15 March
Top 10 announced: 30 March
High quality videos sent in by: 15 April
Top 10 screened at Cinemateket, winner and runner up announced: 29 April
Upload your video to YouTube and apply online: http://www.60secondsdance.dk
Email Release Forms to: Co-ordinator Jeannette Ginslov info@60secondsdance.dk
Our Picks at the Dance On Camera Festival
"Coup de Grace" by Clara Van Gool
Whether your interest is in ballet stars of bygone eras or edgy dance films that push at the boundaries of cinema, there is something for you at the Dance On Camera Festival. The question is just how to find it. The good news is that this year, the festival programming on the Dance Films Association’s website is quite easy to navigate. Arranged by genre, title, and schedule, it is easy to zero in on the programs that you most want to see.
For fans of screendance, the genre of dance made for the camera, the bad news is that there are only two shorts programs being shown at the Dance On Camera Festival this year, but luckily they are good ones. The first is the Dance Film Narratives program, playing on Jan 27th and 29th. Featuring two highly anticipated films by veteran dance filmmakers, Clara Van Gool and Pontus Lidberg, this program will be seeped in dramatic storytelling and breathtaking choreography for the camera. Coup de Grace the latest dance film by Clara Van Gool (director of the acclaimed screen adaptation of DV8’s Enter Achilles) features Jordi Cortes Molina and Damian Munoz, two adversaries who meet in a remote location and engage in a physical and emotional duel. Pontus Lidberg’s Labyrinth Within hauntingly depicts the suspense and jealousy surrounding a love triangle and features NYC Ballet Principal Wendy Whelan and a commissioned score by David Lang.
The second opportunity to see dance for camera is the Shorts Program, a free event at Lincoln Center’s new Elinor Bunin Monroe Auditorium on Saturday Jan 28th. A lighthearted and whimsical selection will be shown here, and features some work by local favs including Jody Oberfelder’s case of mistaken identity, Come Sit Stay and Pooh Kaye’s romp on the wild side in Spring Cleaning.
There are several other other notable screendances sprinkled throughout the festival, including Ora, the first film to use 3D thermal imaging (part of Pilobolus and shorts), and Falling, a gorgeously rendered film about dancers and gravity made by Adrian Churchill the special effects creator of the BBC television series, Merlin.
Several documentaries in this year’s festival seem to blur the boundaries of reality and experimental art film. Examples can be found in the Dance Legacies program on Jan 30th & 31st featuring artful shorts about dance being passed through the generations (Cari Ann Shim Sham’s Sand) and as commentary on social changes (David Rousseve’s portrait of Indonesia in Two Seconds After Laughter and Bruce Berryhill & Martha Curtis’s documentary on Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s work after Hurricane Katrina, Re-staging Shelter). The roots of Robert Wilson’s enigmatic theatre work are exposed in The Space In Back of You an homage to the radical Japanese performer and choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi, whom Wilson collaborated with for 20 years.
Last but not least, you don’t want to miss Sally Sommers, Charles Atlas, and Michael Schwartz’s long awaited documentary Check Your Body at the Door, a tribute to New York’s underground House culture, featuring dances filmed over twenty years and never seen before on screen. Check Your Body will be preceded by freedom2dance, a short that examines the devastating impact of Mayor Giuliani’s strict enforcement of the Cabaret Laws on New York’s once thriving underground dance club culture. This program will also screen the winner of DFA’s first High School Student Film Competition, giving us a sneak peak at the future of screendance!
The 40th edition of the Dance On Camera Festival will take place from January 27-31 at the Walter Reade Theater as well as the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center. For more information go to DFA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s websites to see the full line-up, as well schedule and ticket information.
9/11 and the Arts 10 yrs Later
Performa 11, one of two new festivals in NYC that defy artistic boundaries post-9/11
Like many people, the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 brought up many “What if’s” for me. What would my life be like now if 9/11 hadn’t happened? What would my art look like? What would the fields of dance and dance film look like? And then after being baffled by those questions, I started to think about what actually did happen. How did September 11th, 2001 change my views of my artistic work, and my chosen field of dance?
For me, I wonder if I would have become obsessed with dance for the camera. Without the traumas of 9/11 and the political and cultural awakening it inspired in me, I might not have felt such an urgent need to seek other outlets for artistic expression. In an uncertain world, film and new media gave me hope that my artistic work could make a difference in the world. The feelings of mortality that were triggered by 9/11 made me desperate to be able to create work that would last (ie be able to be watched repeatedly) and the rage and violence that has surrounded the event (and still does to this day) gave me an urgent need communicate with people outside of my tiny circle of acquaintances. I felt that if we were to reconcile with our enemies and restore stability to our lives, then we had to start communicating and learning about each other. Live performance was too limiting for me, I needed to tap into media, and thankfully with the rise of broadband internet that became more possible than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »
The University of Utah’s 8th International Dance for the Camera Festival and Workshop with Katrina McPherson
Moment by Katrina McPherson
The University of Utah’s Departments of Modern Dance and Film and Media Arts are offering two opportunities to work with award-winning Scottish dance filmmaker, Katrina McPherson, in her first American residencies. Set in the beautiful mountain city of Salt Lake this two-week workshop offers in-depth experience for choreographers and filmmakers in shooting and editing dance for the camera. Ms. McPherson will hold screenings, discussions, demonstrations, and will oversee the creation of screendance studies by each participant. Editing facilities and personnel will be available, as will dancers for choreographic projects.
Weekend Workshop: September 15 – 17 — Weeklong Intensive Workshop: September 19 – 24
An evening of student works will be presented on Thursday, September 15, 2011 in conjunction with the International Dance for the Camera Festival.
For more information and to register for the workshops go to the Festival website.
