Posts Tagged ‘Third Rail Projects’
New Dance Film Lab Friday Jan 25th at DTW!
“Fünf ‘n’ Twist” by Anna Brady Nuse, photo: M. Saijo
Join us for a special Friday night Dance Film Lab as we celebrate our first meeting in our new home at Dance Theater Workshop! Please contact Zach Morris to RSVP. If you are interested in presenting material at this lab, we have room for one more artist to show work.
Meeting Details
Dance Film Lab
Friday, January 25, 8-10pm
at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW)
219 West 19th Street
(between 7th and 8th Aves)
Phone: (212) 691-6500
Click Here for DTW’s website
The Dance Film Lab is moderated and organized by Zach Morris (Third Rail Projects), produced and run with the assistance of Kathleen Green, and 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.
Responding to "Your Audience"
I received some great responses to my rather angry rant on Halloween: “Your Audience, Love ‘em or Hate ‘em?,” in which I complained about feeling contempt from experimental dance artists towards their audiences.
Levi Gonzalez, a brave soul from the NYC dance scene provided a wonderful counter-comment to my post which challenged me to clarify my thoughts and be more specific about my problems. Now I can condense it to basically this: I don’t feel like experimental artists think about communication enough.
I used to be active in the NYC experimental dance scene as a performer and choreographer. In the past couple of years I have changed course to become a producer and curator of dance for the camera. Now that I’ve gained a bit of distance from the scene, I’m seeing it from the outside and having some different thoughts about experimentalism. Before, when making work, I was more focused on what I was not doing (ie participating in an oppressive, capitalistic, populist culture) rather than what I was doing: performing for an audience and having an exchange with them. I didn’t think about how my work may have been alienating my audience because it never occurred to me to investigate who they were and what they were bringing to the experience.
