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I am pleased to announce the release of A Performer's Perspective, an interactive online documentary that transmits the perspectives of three dancers in Judith Garay's multimedia dance work THE FINE LINE ~ twisted angels.

The overarching goal of this project is to translate and extend one’s perceptions of dance movement while also exploring how interaction and digital technology can be utilized to better communicate bodily knowledge to a broad audience.

The design of the site is inspired by a close reading analysis I conducted of The Synchronous Objects website (published in the MOCO  2014 conference proceedings) and seeks to present the dancer’s data through three interactive categories: instructional, exploratory, and translational.

The Instructional portion of the website includes reflections from the performers in selected scenes from THE FINE LINE~twisted angels and short documentary videos related to the making of the THE FINE LINE ~twisted angels and each dancer’s perspective: Vanessa Goodman, Bevin Poole, and Antonio Somera. 

In the Exploratory section we visualize the dancers’ movement data, collected with various motion sensors such as, the Myo armband and the Microsoft Kinect camera.  In future versions of the site, this section will be expanded to include more options for viewers to interact with the data.

The Translational section re-imagines the dancers’ data through varying artistic representations including music, animations, and visualizations. 

I am extremely grateful to the design/implementation team that has made the creation of this site possible including: Omid Alemi, Ethan Soutar-Rau, Theo Wong, Linda Nguyen, Professor Thecla Schiphorst, and the many other researchers that helped out along the way. Please see full credits here.

This project is still in development and if you have suggestions or ideas for future collaborations I would love to hear from you!

Congratulations to the students whose works have been selected to be screened on the opening night of this summer's Screendancefest & Workshop with Simon Fildes. There will be screenings in the main theater and a number of films will be shown throughout the lobby. A special congratulations goes to  EZECHIEL K. NDOLI from Kigali, Rwanda. His film "Vulnerability" received the Jury's Choice Award and he will receive $200 USD. Congratulations to all and thank you for your submissions. And a big thank you to the jurors whose bios are below.

SCREENING

Charli Brissey
‘Abandon’
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond/VA/USA

Ben Estabrook
‘rebirth’
University of Utah
Salt Lake City/UT/USA

Scotty Hardwig
‘We walk blood earth’
University of Utah
Salt Lake City/UT/USA

Molly Johnston
‘Hail Dance’
University of Oregon
Eugene/OR/USA

Tanja London
‘University of Utah Dance for Camera Festival and Workshops 2011- A Documentary’
University of Utah
Salt Lake City/UT/USA

Ellen Maynard
‘on such a day as this’
Ohio State University
Columbus/OH/USA

Ezechiel K. Ndoli
‘vulnerability’
Kwetu Film Institute & Ishyo Art Center
Kigali/Rwanda

Wyn Pottratz
‘Antarctica’
University of Utah
Bellingham/WA/USA

Rachael L. Shaw
‘symbiosis’
University of Utah
Laramie/WY/USA

Naporn Wattanakasaem
‘mystified’
University of North Carolina
Lives now in Bankok/Thailand


LOBBY INSTALLATION

Alise Anderson
‘Ingrid’
Berkeley Digital Film Institute
Oakland/CA/USA

Lorna R. Daniel
‘Release’
University of Cape Town
Cape Town/South Africa

Tanja London
‘imprint’
University of Utah,
Salt Lake City/UT/USA

Emma Villavecchia
‘Library Duet’
Bennington College
Bennington/VT/USA

Jordan Williams
‘ground’
Manchester Metropolitan University
Leek/UK

Zaoli Zhong
‘Interference No.1’
Syracuse University
Syracuse/NY/USA

Jurors

The University of Utah’s Departments of Modern Dance and Film and Media Arts are requesting submissions of student dance films to be screened on the opening night of the 9th International Screendance Festival and Summer Intensive Editing Workshop with SIMON FILDES, June 23, 2013. Submissions must be a screendance piece, created specifically for film or video, or a staged work recreated for the camera. We are also accepting short dance-related documentaries. Please note that these submissions are not to be performance documentations. A small cash prize for the Jury’s Choice will be awarded.

Postmark deadline for mailed submissions is by 5:00PM, March 1^st. Online submissions must be received by midnight Mountain Standard Time, March 15.
All submissions must include a submission form for each submission. Individuals are allowed to submit a maximum of 3 films. Links to Submission Forms will soon be available at dance.utah.edu/screendancefest

For submission information please contact:

Tanja London, t.london@utah.edu,

Send submissions or links to:

Ben Estabrook, ben.estabrook@utah.edu

International Screendance Festival,
 University of Utah
Department of Modern Dance,

330 S 1500 East, Room 106
, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
USA

new feature length documentary directed by the award-winning Scottish video dance-maker Katrina McPherson.

This new performance documentary Force of Nature is a 75 minute UK/US co-production featuring the renowned improvising dance artist Kirstie Simson. Over five years, Katrina McPherson filmed Kirstie Simson performing and teaching across Europe, culminating in a one-off performance with Michael Schumacher, Kenzo Kusuda and Dai Jian at the Universal Halll Arts Centre, Findhorn, Scotland. in July 2010. Force of Nature combines specially filmed performance, documentary footage and in-depth interviews with Kirstie, in which she talks about her life-long practice in improvisation, and her passionate belief in the power of dance to bring people together and transform lives.

Camera: Katrina McPherson

Editor: Simon Fildes

Music:  Stephen Heather

Additional Camera and sound: Rosalind Masson, Rob Page, Vidal Bini, Fred Parsons.

Force of Nature was funded by Goat Media, University of Illinois, Creative Scotland, and University of Dundee. Produced by Goat Media in association with University of Illinois Champaign Urbana.

The DVD is available in PAL and NTSC 16:9 through Amazon in the UK and USA , The createspace e-store and from the Goat Media website www.go-at.co.uk/Buy.html

The Departments of Modern Dance and Film & Media Arts are pleased to announce the jury selections for the Student Dance for the Camera Program for the 8th International Dance for the Camera Festival and Workshop with Katrina McPherson.

We would like to thank students from around the globe for their submissions and congratulate the selected filmmakers. This is the first year a Jury's Choice Cash Award has been offered.

JURY STATEMENT
The $200 award goes to the Workshop "Cámaras danzantes (Dancing Cameras)" taught by Silvina Szperling at Escuela Internacional Cine y TV in Cuba, in collaboration with Festival DVDanza Habana, directed by Roxana de los Ríos, during March-April 2011. With over 80 submissions from around the world the collection of student dance films made during a workshop in Havana, Cuba with Silvina Szperling from Argentina, are particularly compelling. It is to the sponsors of this workshop that we award our cash prize, as a way of supporting their efforts. By the simplest of means, these student filmmakers immediately transport us to their worlds, and a great spirit of humanity is evident in every film.

JURIED STUDENT PROGRAM – Thursday, September 15, Marriott Center for Dance
University of Utah

Panal
Tristana Castilla (Spain)
Escuela Internacional Cine y TV, Cuba
 
Volatile Three
Kayleigh Atkinson
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
 
Whirligig
James Gould and Kristen Lucas
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US
 
The Breath We Left
Tara Rynders
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, US
 
Lola
Anna Potapova
Okatankino, Russia
 
Lost Horizon
Tanja London
University of Utah, US
 
Parallax Error
Anne C. Moore
California Institute of the Arts, US
 
Hare
Eugenia Silveira
Universidad de Republica, Uruguay
 
Lights Flicker in the Subterranea
David Bird and Hunter McCurry
Oberlin College, US
 
Vivir es Vivir
Luis Ernesto Donas
Escuela Internacional Cine y TV, Cuba
 
Carry on Anyways
Remy Fernandez-O’Brien and Nicole Parma
Brown University, US
 
The Wait of Gravity
Renata Sheppard
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
 
Shadowed
Hamish Anderson
Bournemouth University, UK
 
Stranger Dances
Sabrina Cavins
University of Colorado at Boulder, US
 
Blood in the Northwest: The Burden of Skin
Mollie Wolf
University of Colorado at Boulder, US
 
Danción
Jerman Catalan (Chile)
Escuela Internacional Cine y TV, Cuba
 
Honorable Mentions (Lobby Screening)

Entre Nous
Blair Brown
Loyola Marymount University, US
 
Gray #2 Boundary
Jenilyn Brown
California State University, Long Beach, US
 
Submissions from Escuela Internacional Cine y TV – Cuba
Instructor, Silvina Szperling -Argentina
 
Ejercicio
Jerman Catalan - Chile
 
Espacio
Tristana Castilla - Spain
 
#1
Luvyen Mederos - Cuba
 
Simona
Luis Ernesto Doñas - Cuba
 
Lo Siento
Jerman Catalan
 
Yogurt
Felipe López – Colombia

Jury members included Marta Renzi, Choreographer and Dance Filmmaker from New York, Robert Schaller, Filmmaker and Director of the Handmade Film Institute from Boulder, Colorado, Michael Trent, Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Toronto’s Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, Wyn Pottratz, Graduate Student in the Department of Modern Dance pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Screendance, and Danielle Short, Graduate Student in the Department of Film & Media Arts, also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Screendance. (For jury bios go to: www.dance.utah.edu/danceforcamerafest/StudentCompetitions.html) For more information on the entire Festival and Workshops, please go to www.dance.utah.edu/danceforcamerafest/


Ellen Bromberg
Associate Professor, Department of Modern Dance
Director, The International Dance for the Camera Festival
Director, Graduate Certificate in Screendance
University of Utah
330 S. 1500 East, Rm. 106
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Personal Office – 801/587-9807
Dance Office – 801/581-7327
Fax - 801/581-5442
e.bromberg@utah.edu

EMPAC announces the winning projects of this year’s DANCE MOViES Commission! Ranging from a six-minute hand-drawn animation seen in a built theater set, to a ten-part visual meditation of a man in Rome, to a love story told through shadowy overlays, these projects all test the definition of what dance on screen can be.

Chosen out of 93 proposals by a panel of dance artists, filmmakers, and curators, the three projects will be created over the course of one year and will premiere in the fall of 2012 as part of the Filament festival at EMPAC.

DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012 Projects

Animated Dance Film (US)
Choreographer/Director/Set designer: Sarah Michelson
Composer: Pete Drungle
Animator: Joanna Quinn

Sarah Michelson continues her willful collision of the elements of choreography and visual art, as she shifts her vision to animation in this new work developed with filmmaker Joanna Quinn. Presented in a built set environment, this hand-drawn dance cartoon created from an original live dance amplifies ideas of artifice in theater.

In the first place… (US)
Created and performed by Colin Gee
Composer: Erin Gee

Colin Gee’s work hovers at the intersection of architecture, film, and performance, finding its expression through a restrained physical presence. Comprised of 10 short films shot in Rome, this new work reframes the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499, as a series of 10 decisive moments in which the protagonist uses landmarks to reorient himself while pursuing his beloved.

Overlay (Argentina)
Director: Cayetana Vidal
Choreographer/Dancer: Sofia Mazza
Dancer: Diego Poblete

Director Cayetana Vidal and choreographer Sofia Mazza come together once again to create a single-channel installation that explores the film technique of overlay as a narrative device. In an illusory world, two lovers living parallel lives, day for one and night for the other, with seasons inverted, only meet in the artful interlocking of image and sound.

The DANCE MOViES Commission is a program that supports the creation of new works in which dance meets the technologies of the moving image. Established in 2007, it has already had a significant national and international impact, with the creation of 17 new works to date.

The commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. It is open to artists based in North and South America who are making movement-based video, film, and installation work.

Hi Everybody,

Another opportunity to see most of the screen dance compilation Body Writes Mood first screened

at the Prague Quadrennial last June.

Now part of LovingArt festival in Tel Aviv.

If you’re around please join us - free entrance to all events.

Thursday September 8^th

53 Yehuda Hayamit Street Jaffa

Lior

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The Films:

Geistern

Diego Agulló.

2009, Germany

--                                                                  *The 4th circle of the Dragon by Diego Agulló

HANNAH 

Sergio Cruz

2010, UK/Greece/Iceland

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A Dance With Sacha Green Pathroom

Elliot STOREY

2010, France

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The 4^th Circle of the Dragon

Diego Agulló

2011, Morocco

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Ring #3

Suzon Fuks

2008, Australia

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Continuum

Manon Le Roy

2009, France

Goody Hallet Dance from zena bibler on Vimeo.

Maria Hallett was a pirate's girlfriend. Her parents wouldn't let her marry Black Sam Bellamy because he had no money. He became a famous pirate, collected a ship full of gold, and sailed back to her hometown in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. On April 17th, The Whydah struck one of Wellfleet's famous sandbars and sunk, killing most of the crew. Legend has it that Hallett used to visit the shore every night watching for Black Sam’s return. Some say she actually witnessed the famous Whydah shipwreck, and cried out as her true love drowned; others say she spent her later days as a witch, condemning ships that passed through her harbor.

Filmed and danced near Uncle Tim's Bridge in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Award Winning Scottish Dance Filmmaker and Author, Katrina McPherson, who will be in residence at the University ofUtah's International Dance for the Camera Festival in September. She will conduct two workshops, a weekend workshop plus screenings of her award-winning work, September 15-17th, followed by a week long intensive, September 19-24th. It is possible to register for either one or both workshops. For more information go to:

http://www.dance.utah.edu/danceforcamerafest/

or contact Ellen Bromberg, e.bromberg@utah.edu

Photo Credit:Gao Yan and Song Wenjia/Beijing Dance Academy

Call for entries: videodance, documentaries 

The International Festival VideoDanzaBA opens its call for

videos and papers

for its thirteenth edition, to be held November 2011.

Entries must be registered online at www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar

Videos have to be delivered until May 16, 2011 to:

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL VIDEODANZABA

CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION CINEMATOGRAFICA

Benjamín Matienzo 2571 (C1426 DAU) Buenos Aires – Argentina

Jury for videos: Rodrigo Alonso, Diego Terotola, Silvina Szperling

International Symposium of Videodance Coordinator: Susana Temperley

We are waiting for your piece!

Choreographic Captures Competition 2011 - Deadline April 30

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the Deadline for the Fourth International Choreographic Captures Competition: April 30, 2011!

We invite filmmakers, media artists, directors, choreographers and dancers from all over the world to create short choreographic art films in the format of an advertising clip (max. 60 sec) and submit them to JOINT ADVENTURES. The films should deal with choreography and movement in the broadest sense.

Please find the entry conditions and the registration form on www.choreographiccaptures.org or attached!

The winners can look forward to monetary and cinema prizes awarded by an international and independent jury of experts. The winners of 2011 will be presented during the commercial break in numerous cinemas in Germany and abroad – themed “Art for those who didn’t ask for it!”

We would appreciate it very much if you could forward this information to interested colleagues, artists and partners.

Besides that we want to offer you the possibility to enhance the program of your festivals or events by showing 35 of the excellent short films submitted to the Choreographic Captures Competition in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The price for this DVD would amount to € 50. Please find the fax form for ordering attached.

Thank you very much and warm regards from Munich


Walter Heun
Artistic & Executive Director
JOINT ADVENTURES
Choreographic Captures: now on    and   join us or follow us now!
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Another well deserved award: Best dance film at dancescreen 2010 in category C2 "screen choreography", subcategory "shorts up to 15 min".

See the whole award lis here: http://cinedans.nl/dancescreen

We make a toast and thank the Jury, and the co-organizers Cinedans (Amsterdam) and IMZ (Viena).

We dedicate it to the team and to the family of videodance.

Cheers!

2011 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL - CALL FOR ENTRIES

ATTENTION SCREENDANCE ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS!

Celebrating its 12^th year, the NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL is open for submissions from innovative filmmakers and artists from around the world, who specialize in the exploration of body, dance, and movement through the medium of film and video. All movement-based genres are accepted, such as videodance, animation and documentary.

Selected films will be showcased in a special program focused on dance and will also be eligible for Jury, Audience, and Festival Awards. Please take advantage of this grand opportunity to screen your work in front of thousands of film fans and industry professionals!

The Festival will be running from April 28 to May 5, 2011 and screened in Newport Beach, CA.

For more information on our festival and the submissions process, please visit our official website: www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com

or submit now using this link:

https://www.withoutabox.com/login/1249

Early Deadline - October 22, 2010

Thanksgiving Special - November 19, 2010

Standard Deadline - December 17, 2010

Final Deadline - January 24, 2011

SUBMIT NOW AND SAVE!

THANK YOU AND BEST OF LUCK!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Entrycall 2010

Call for entries dance screen at Cinedans 2010!
Festival dates 8 – 12 December, 2010

Stichting Dioraphte will award € 7500,-
and € 2000,- for the winning filmmakers of dancescreen 2010 at Cinedans.
Cinedans would like to thank Stichting Dioraphte for supporting the competition of this years festival!

‘Dioraphte Student Encouragement Award’ € 2.000,-
‘Dioraphte Cinedans jury award’ € 7.500,-

NOTE The deadline for entry is July 21st 2010!

Bright prospects for lovers of video dance: Come and join us in the Dutch city of Amsterdam! Cinedans and the IMZ would like to cordially invite you to participate in dance screen at Cinedans 2010: On 8 – 12 December, Cinedans will host this 12th international festival and competition for dance films and videos. In Cinedans, dance screen has found synergetic partners to co-organise this event. Additionally to programming dance films and videos Cinedans also focuses on crossover projects and media installations. Cinedans further features commissioned film projects, installations, live games and workshops and will take place from 8 – 12 December.

dance screen at Cinedans 2010 will be featuring an irresistible programme of events! In addition to the extensive film programme, lively panels and productive discussions on the state of the arts, inspiring lectures, hot topic talks on community focal points and presentations will let us explore the variety of our alluring playgrounds. The video library is as always a wide fishing pool for programmers offering a varied overview on the art form.

Focussing 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,-

Hence high time to put out our first call for entries! 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