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FRAMEWORKS dance film screening | April 10th | Brooklyn, NY

Posted by Michael Bodel, FRAMEWORKS on March 3, 2009 at 12:35am

FRAMEWORKS is an on-going series in New York, that presents innovative works of choreography for the camera. Submission is rolling and the works are selected by panel based on creative merit and independent of production budget. The next screening will be at:Galapagos Art SpaceDUMBO, BrooklynApril 10th | 8pmTix: $10 (at the door)For more details including submission instructions and program information, please visitframeworksdance.orgThanks,Michael Bodel

Through the Lens: Dance On Camera Workshop @ DNA, NYC

Posted by Dance New Amsterdam on December 30, 2008 at 4:08pm

4 award-winning filmmakers share their viewpointsgenerously subsidized by Dance New AmsterdamJanuary 6-9, 2009 2-4pm@ Dance New AmsterdamSave 10%! Pre-register for the workshop at DNA280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (Chambers St)212-625-8369Take advantage of this unique opportunity for professional developmentStudy each day with a different artist

Jan 6-Ben Dolphin (director of ARISING) Jan 7-Alla Kovgan (co-director of NORA)Jan 8-Daniel Belton (director of MATCHBOX and AFTER DURER)Jan 9-Douglas Rosenberg (co-director of OF THE HEART)

Workshop co-ordinated by Ellen BrombergThis four-day workshop features the perspectives of four well-known dance filmmakers with very diverse backgrounds. Each day of the workshop will begin with a screening of one of the filmmaker’s short works, which will act as a springboard for discussion, and upon which experiential exercises will be constructed for the students. The workshop seeks to provide four differing perspectives on seeing and crafting the moving body through the lens of the camera.FeesCIC Students: $16 cl/$48 wksp (-10% = $43)DNA members: $25 cl/$100 wksp (-10% = $90)DFA members: $30 cl/$120 wksp (-10% = $108)Non DNA & DFA members: $35 cl/$140 wksp (-10% =$126)Pre-register for the workshop save 10%

Work sample of Alla Kovgan

SOMA SONGS (7' version) Daniel Belton and Good Company

Venous Flow: State of Grace by Douglas Rosenberg

« exercer les images » contemporary dance training program in CCN Montpellier around the image

Posted by Gilles Jobin on November 8, 2008 at 9:30pm

Application call« exercer les images » contemporary dance training programex.e.r.ce 09/10 is being shaped around the theme of “the image”, which will serve as a pivot forthe entire program. The image’s role in dance is multifarious. It is a wellspring for work,inspiration and references; it is a powerful tool for writing, memory and props.The ex.e.r.ce09/10 program will pursue three lines of research, exploring how dance has impacted the imageand how the image has impacted dance from a historical, technical, artistic and aestheticviewpoint. We are curious about what might emerge from this specific image relation into theframework of a dance training program that emphasizes research, tool-building, creating andperforming.the ex.e.r.ce 09/10 program is being led by Mathilde Monnier, choregrapher - Isabelle Launay,dance history doctor - Mark Tompkins, choregrapher, singer - Stéphane Bouquet, screenwriter,poet - Loïc Touzé, choregrapher .applicants futur dance artists and other people wishing to work in relation with this artisticfield aged over 20.Dance training program for students and professionalsIn face of the way choreography is evolving and the ever-increasing links among artists from different countries, cultures, age groups and backgrounds, we believe it is important to widen the scope of ex.e.r.ce’s applicants in order to enable experienced professionals to join ex.e.r.ce. The courses will be organized through three 12-week seminars. It will be possible to follow either the full program for student training or an 8-week seminar (full or part) for the professional training.application formswww.mathildemonnier.com until 5 december 2008

Opportunity NYC Job: Graphic Design@ Dance New Amsterdam...part time...free classes!

Posted by Dance New Amsterdam on August 15, 2008 at 5:00pm

Dance New Amsterdam is looking for a part-time graphic designer, 20 hours/week, who is a fast worker, a quick learner and team worker. Must have basic skills in Photoshop, Quark, InDesign and web media (html and CSS).If interested please send resume and cover letter to Amanda Szeglowski at aszeglowski@dnadance.org with DNA graphic design in the subject line.Marlon

My FIRST gas mask

Posted by Rob Divine on August 11, 2008 at 2:30am

I bought my first gas mask today - an Israeli M15 black rubber beauty. I can't wait to get it in the dance studio and put on Psyclon Nine and see how it modifies sensory perception and resulting movement. For too long I've kept two distinct categories of art in my life. The world of the classical dancer and the goth/industrial/fetish/vampyre world. I've excelled in both worlds but I made a point in my life to keep them separate and distinct. Maybe for fear of diluting my resolve to be the best I can be in each. Or maybe for the more basic fear of opposing polarities of subcultures within Mother Art simply rejecting or repelling each other.Well thats just plain stupid. I used to be more of a theatrical renegade. Once upon a time I would cross ballet technique with goth pageantry and come up with something that neither subculture had ever seen. That was 1994 and that formula worked. Why did I stop? I think I needed time to train to develop my identity and resolve within the confines and specific rulesets of the dance tradition. Check. Got that now. Its time to go back to the secret formula.For too long in my life has dance technique served as both the vehicle and the message. Well its not the message, its just one conveyance to speak to the message. This whole other world that I'm a part of is soon going to bleed all over the pristine white tights of the dance technician. And there will be a whole other blood-spattered message to be had.Take for example the gas mask in a dance piece. Image the possibilities of a piece based on breath play. Imagine any one of the sick, freakish things we do in the goth/industrial/fetish/vampyre world combined with barrel turns and tour jetes. There is a difference between a dance piece, and a theater piece. This is now theater (revived). And this is why I'm excited about my first gas mask.....

As the sparks fly upwards...

Posted by Susan Elena on June 29, 2008 at 3:30pm

As the sparks fly upwards... is really on it's way now. The piece, which uses Isadora to bring live dancers and film clips together, had it's first showing last Friday with very positive results.Lights are attached to dancers' bodies which are then tracked in the space by a camera and used by Isadora to trigger specific pre-recorded film clips. The movement is the same for the live and filmed dancers but the order is completely different. Sometimes in unison, sometimes in canon, sometimes completely out of sync.Initial feedback includes comparisons to photographic dark rooms watching images develop, appraisals of the dynamic, fluid movement and claims of 'this is the future of screendance'.View the Isadora output...

Or mobile phone footage from the performance...

EMPAC announces winners of 2008 DANCE MOViES COMMISSION!

Posted by Hélène Lesterlin on June 20, 2008 at 8:58pm

Dear friends and colleagues,Our second round of DANCE MOViES Commissions are underway!Below is our official announcement email, if you'd like to post the info anywhere or forward it to people...The full press release, which includes the short list, is attached as well. Our website is going to be updated in the next week so don't visit it for more info yet!Best wishes,Hélène LesterlinCurator, EMPAC----THE EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2008 DANCE MOViES COMMISSIONS!EMPAC – the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - announces the four recipients of the 2008 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission. Chosen from a short list of 28 projects by an international panel of dance-film practitioners, curators and producers, the projects range in format, style and emotional tone: from single-channel video installation to 16mm film, from the spectacular to the surreal.The projects will receive awards ranging from $7,000 to $40,000 and will be premiered in the fall of 2009 at EMPAC.EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2008 Recipients(in alphabetical order of titles)"Body/traces" by digital media artist Sophie Kahn and choreographer Lisa Parra (US)A single-channel video installation reanimating 3D laser scans of the body in motion, resulting in a ghostly imperfect trace of the dancer's movement at human-scale."Eyes Nose Mouth" choreographed and conceived by Noémie Lafrance, directed by Patrick Daughters (USA)A dance film in which one take follows a single figure, streaming through fast-changing and surreal environments, ceaselessly swept forward in the flux of urban time."Looking Forward - Man and Woman" directed by Roberta Marques, choreographed and performed by Michael Schumacher and Liat Waysbort (Brazil/Holland)The third film in a trilogy experimenting with the reversing of movement and time in video and dance, creating mind-binding illusions in partnering while on a Sunday walk on the beach."Sunscreen Serenade" directed and choreographed by Kriota Willberg, sound by Carmen Borgia, illustration/animation by R. Sikoryak (US)A global warming-themed Depression-era musical spectacle populated by scantily costumed hand puppets.The selection panel comprised Leonel Brum (Brazil), Lynette Kessler(USA), Christina Molander (Sweden), Laura Taler (Canada), Hélène Lesterlin, dance curator at EMPAC, and Johannes Goebel, the director of EMPAC.The DANCE MOViES Commission is a program launched by EMPAC to support the creation of new works in which dance meets the technologies of the moving image. As the first major commissioning program for dance film established in the US in 2007, it is already having a significant national and international impact. The four film projects commissioned in last year’s round will premier at EMPAC’s upcoming opening celebration in October 2008.The Commission is supported by EMPAC’s Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and the Performing Arts. It is open to artists based in North and South America who are making video, film and installation work.For more information, including the work selected for the short list , please visit www.empac.rpi.edu.

Dance and the City_01

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on February 19, 2008 at 10:58pm

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Interact with us

Posted by Susan Elena on June 13, 2008 at 6:18pm

FireBox will be spending next week at the UK Theatre School courtesy of the Dance House working on new material for an interactive dance performance. The exciting part is...that as well as being able to watch the FireBox dancers performing, you will also be able to get involved and get interacting with the piece. Don't worry you don't need to dance if you don't want to, you just have to be willing to hold a light and move around the room. Easy.Come along on Friday 20th June at 6pm for your chance to watch it, try it out or both!UK Theatre School - opposite the old Odeon cinema4 West Regent Street,GlasgowG2 1RW

The Practice Room, The Poles and The Paper

Posted by Susan Elena on June 11, 2008 at 1:00pm

It's been a busy time for FireBox recently with a few breakthroughs in terms of my degree project, the first draft of my masters due in and working on a dance film with some contemporary/pole dancers.Isadora is starting to behave herself in the Practice Room at The Arches just in time for my Dance House creative lab at the UK theatre school next week. I've got nice LED lights to use as a trigger and the dancers have been working on some great sequences that will be used as the basis for their improvisations. I'd asked them to choreograph their own combos as I'd wanted something different from my usual style and they ended up creating 4 different combos that are very much my style - perhaps we've all been working together too long!I still need to get all my extra dancers together one weekend to film the movie clips for the piece and, as always, I'm expecting that to be a logistical nightmare.Two of my dancers, Gill Smith and Suzi Kelly, have been going to pole dancing classes recently and were keen to combine it with contemporary dance so we got together and made a film with them showing off their new skills. The first edit is done and as soon as they've signed off on it I'll be punting it around different events and getting it shown.

Finally, the dreaded paper. The first draft is in and I'm waiting on some feedback before I get stuck in to completing it. There are some things I already know need to be expanded upon and clarified but the basis is there so I just need to get my head down and get on with it.

Sweet Surface_Dance on Sugar by Linda Florence

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on February 15, 2008 at 3:30pm

Wallpaper designer Linda Florence created a patterned dance floor of sieved icing sugar at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, which served as a stage for a performance by ballroom dancers. As they moved, the dancers’ feet created new patterns in the sugar, which had been dusted over the floor using stencils. Reblogged from de zeen

ID the US three-month tour

Posted by Ashley A. Friend on May 30, 2008 at 10:47pm

http://id-iloveamerica.blogspot.com/I will be using a central blog to document my 3 month solo trip across america.It sort of started a couple weeks ago, but now I'm in NYC wrapping some things up.To be updated go to the blog xoxo... and if you live along the trip let me know, I would love to meet!http://id-iloveamerica.blogspot.com/

Hip Hop Arts Academy

Posted by Don Nicola on April 8, 2008 at 6:09pm

Hip Hop Arts AcademySmall Classes, Private & Personal Training OnlyThe Hip-Hop Dance Academy is the only specialized and qualified conservatory devoted to the education of Hip-Hop dance in the world.Created exclusively to uphold and perpetuate the authentic foundations of Hip-Hop dance, The Hip-Hop Dance Academy is the most intensive and challenging facility that provides dancers an extensive professional training that develops talent into sophisticated and knowledgeable skills.In this groundbreaking program, designed to provide high quality dance instruction/training and body awareness at half the rate charged by top dance programs in the New York City area. The uniqueness of this program stems from its inception, which is geared toward the professionally trained dancer and moves at an accelerated rate, while still addressing beginner through advanced stages of Hip Hop dance instruction. The techniques and concepts you will learn can be applied to other forms of dance and movement to increase efficiency, effectiveness and contribute to your overall performance.Within the program, Artist/ Actors/ Dancers develop technical expertise in hip-hop dance along with the educational and intellectual enlightenment gained from studying a broad range of academic subjects.The Spring Intensive ’08, is a Program which tackles the fundamentals of Hip-Hop Dance offering all levels a meticulous opportunity to grasp and embrace the elements of hip-hop dance such as Popping, Locking, B-boy fundamentals, Boogaloo, Breakin, Funk styling and Illusion styles.In the curriculum, dancers discover the origins and history of hip-hop dance.Loose weight, Tone muscles and gain self-confidenceLearn how to defend from a crooked agent, manager or promoterLearn to use common and personal items as expressions (mic keys, band members, purse, chair, pen, eyebrow etc.)Condition your mind and body to prevent panicSharpen you sense of awareness and how to project itRelax your mind through breathing exercisesCreate your “it” FactorHelp you say goodbye to procrastinationInspire you to take consistent and massive actionCreate a support network for yourself and your careerAllow you to grow in any direction you chooseFace your fears about yourself and the industryBuild a strong belief system to let you flourishDefine a clear set of goals for the yearCreate a strategic plan on how you're going to make it happenSolidify your vision for yourself and your careerGain renewed excitement for your careerWHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?Get you in the best shape of your life.Artist Development Workshop Energy training designed to build self-confidence increased awareness, improved flexibility, speed & good performance. Class tactics are integrated to help Artist achieve a better sense of personal comfort and peace of mind while performing.Pls email with serious inquires only!

Bertha Bermudez Podacast in the Cidendans Network, enjoy!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 27, 2008 at 5:30pm

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Capturing Intentions, EG | PC Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten, Capturing Intentions, Scott de Lahunta, New ways of dance notations. Podcast made by Josselin Carré and Alex Tirajoh for Festival Cinedans 2007 (www.cinedans.nl)

Voodoo

Posted by CreationEditor on May 22, 2008 at 9:30am

TITLE OF EVENT: I AM DIGITAL - The Voodoo SessionTYPE OF EVENT: CLUB / ARTS EventDATE: Saturday 31st May 2008TIME: 9pm-1amVenue: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register St, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA www.thevoodoorooms.co.ukEvent Website: www.iam-digital.comEnquiries TEL: 01316677363 or 07877835295Email: chakan@iam-digital.comShort Description: After the successful event in February 08 I AM presents a night of international exposition, collaboration, and performance produced with emerging and established artists from Scotland, South Africa, England, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Belgium, France & Spain, the collaborations of which were in many cases instigated in Scotland. The "innovative" program of digital art, dance performance and live music aims to promote discovery, discussion and relaxation with likeminded people in an informal environment.The night encompasses the work of emerging and established artists and bands, providing an innovative platform for exposition, performance and audience interaction (because in fact people are art). I AM develops with the participants (the audience and artists alike) an atmosphere of collaborative creativity, and the opportunity to enjoy good music and dance.Program:MUSIC & DANCE SHORTS 9pm-9.40pm"This is not a body" Retina Dance. (Belgium)"Trench" Sabine Klaus. (Germany)DANCE PERFORMANCE & DIALOUGUE 9.40pm –10.05 pmRites" (an extract) - Anthony Missen & Kevin Turner.MUSIC, TIME BASED MEDIA & ANIMATION 10.10-10.25pm* -"Human Cosmic"- Monica Fernandez (Spain)"This is not a body" Brian Hartley (Scotland)"2008" Damien Cupyers (France)"Hit me Baby" Rachel Maclean (Scotland)LIVE BANDS 10.30pm-MidnightAsazi Space Funk Explosion - Afro-Celt dance floor tribal rhythms – (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Scotland, England)DJ Midnight – 1amDJ Ricky Ried (Hanover99 & DigitalNYE)However for extensive details please visit www.iam-digital.com/events.php, where you will also be able to link to extensive artists profiles.

These Things Happen

Posted by Susan Elena on March 12, 2008 at 12:44pm

These Things Happen when three dancers and one dancer/film maker follow instructions given by choreographer, Angus Balbernie at a Dance House research lab. Spontaneous, textured and very low-tech.Following another failed attempt to hire any equipment I ended up using my own Mini DV and mobile to film improvisations at Angus' research lab. Angus had agreed to let me use the footage anyway I decided but I wasn't sure how to put it all together with it being on different formats and still make it look like one cohesive piece. After a lightbulb moment last weekend I decided to embrace the low-tech aspect and only use the footage from my mobile. The only editing I chose to use was to rotate some of the sections which had been captured in portrait to give the feeling of the camera rotating but the dancers remain standing.I'm quite pleased with the results and am now thinking of ways this can be combined with my final project.

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These Things Happen will be screened at the launch of re:surface tonight, the Dance House's video dance event.

BIBAP - body in bits and pieces

Posted by V2_ on June 4, 2008 at 11:41am

A project by Carolien Hermans, V2_ and NPS2006-2007Dancers: Kyungsun Baek, Jefta van Dinther, Aimar Perez Gali, Maria Mavridou, Pere Faurawww.bibap.nlIn the Kinkerbuurt, Amsterdam West, a man is chased. His pursuer wants his skin, literally: he wants to take over his body. BIBAP is about the physical act of running, about exhaustion, about breathing, about keep-on-going even while you can’t. BIBAP is about rhythm, about repetition, about what will happen when you eventually stop running.Body in Bits and Pieces (BIBAP) is a cross media dance project, initiated by choreograper and director Carolien Hermans. BIBAP contains a thriller-like dance movie and a poetic online dance story. After the realization of the prototype for the BIBAP interactive Internet project in 2006, V2_ coordinated the realization of the final version of the BIBAP online application. This application cleverly combines dance film with gaming technology by integrating dance movie clips into an interactive application. Through a combination of physical and virtual interaction with the application a user is immersed into a virtual world in which a story unfolds based on expressive dancing and many interactive surprises. The virtual world is inspired on Amsterdam ‘Oud-West’ and several parts of this area in Amsterdam have been recreated in the virtual world of BIBAP. While the full dance movie by Danslab is about a running man chased by 'body-invaders', this relation is reversed in the Internet application. There the user takes the perspective of the running man, but this time he is chasing the 'body invaders', leading to many exciting dance encounters.Bibap is funded by the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NPS) and the Stimuleringsfonds voor Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties (STIFO).

Lights, Camera, Action!

Posted by Susan Elena on March 12, 2008 at 12:40pm

After a successful day in The Arches playing with torches and taking photographs I knew it could turn into something really exciting but didn't really know what. I had thought After Effects would be the answer but after missing the workshop due to the Scottish Dance Theatre work I was back to square one.Enter Isadora.Perfect for working with torches. I can have dancers moving with lights in the space and create the trails of light which I have been obsessed with for a while now at the same time. I can turn these trails of light into different things according to different triggers and I'm really excited about the whole thing.It's going to be ace!

Random Dance Explores Cognition and Artificial Intelligence

Posted by Doug Fox on May 18, 2008 at 11:14pm

In my latest post in The Kinetic Interface blog, I write about Wayne McGregor's Random Dance and their explorations into neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The primary focus of this post is on "Entity," which premiered at Sadler's Wells on April 10, 2008. I include video interviews with McGregor and excerpts from Entity.I'd like to learn about other dance projects that deal with neuroscience-related topics -- Thanks.

Dancing with Lemurplex Musical Robots: Ellen Godenna and Max Lord

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 22, 2008 at 4:00pm

Work sample of Alla Kovgan

SOMA SONGS (7' version) Daniel Belton and Good Company

Venous Flow: State of Grace by Douglas Rosenberg

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