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Massachusetts Dance Festival (http:www.massdancefestival) is again creating dances across the state in 2012, on June 23rd and 24th @ Boston University Dance Theatre, 915 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, and again September 22nd and 23rd, at UMass Amherst  Bowker Auditorium, Amherst, MA, 01003. 

Saturday evenings @ 8:00 pm MDF presents 12 professional companies based in Massachusetts, for a multi-cultural, multi-genre sensory spectacular!  Sunday afternoons @ 4:00 pm present 12 emergent dance companies, also showcasing the widest variety of high level entertainment from youth groups across the state.  Admission: $25 Sat nites, $15 Sun afternoons, with BDA, senior and youth discounts.  All tickets are $5 off when ordered in advance, online.

Our Mission:

Massachusetts Dance Festival believes that dance, as a major component of arts and culture, is essential to meaningful lives and healthy communities.

Dance and arts education contribute to quality life in the 21st Century by providing rich education for youth and promoting cultural understanding and tolerance, within diverse communities.

MDF offers annual statewide education workshops and performances that are inclusive of all dance genres.  Our festivals provide opportunities for professional and emergent dancers and choreographers, while inspiring community-wide involvement.

MDF seeks to raise the profile of dance as a profession in Massachusetts, as a means to stimulate social and cultural development across our state.

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Help us create enlivened communities! Call today: (781) 6086084; (508) 429-7577

Here we (*) are again. The young Art.On.Wires festival opens its doors for the second time.

Like last year, we arrived in a very warm and wellcoming atmosphere here in Oslo. Not just because the sun is shining...

Today the day starts with an introduction talk by Alexander Eichhorn, the founder of this festival.

The day is reserved for talks and lectures. People introduce themself and their work in general or more specific, talk a little about the workshops they will give and answer some questions.

Marko Ritter (D), co-founder of the company intolight, starts the lecture about his work and research. Intolight got a grand from the E.C.A.S. network to develope their project CHET (collective hedonistic toolkid). One part of this software mainly based on vvvv is switchboy. It's a toolkid for Vjing. You basically can do everything with it. The software will be open-source and Marko hopes for many people who will contribute new patches for switchboy in order to develope this multi-functional toolkid. You can do mind mapping, project 3D graphics, Videos and all the things a good Vj programm should be able to provide.
Marko will give a workshop together with Valérie-Françoise Vogt for vvvv - An introduction into the Multipurpose Toolkit on Thursday and Sunday.

Marko Ritter // intolight // intolight.de
Valérie-Françoise Vogt // veevee.de
E.C.A.S. // ECAS/ICAS
CHET // chet toolkid
Switchboy // switchboy

After the lunch break the talks continue with 5uper.net/DAAL and DKIA.

Based in Vienna Philip Fischer, Erkin Bayirli, Michal Wlodkowski, the guys from 5uper.net/DAAL, talk as well about their artist collective and their artistic-research work. Michal gives us a short overview about their projects, one is the international festival coded cultures. Erkin introduces us to the roboter plant superViVo and some other agiland mobile cybernetic plants. It's all about playfulness and an easy access to solar topics, agil cybernetic plants and gadges.
They will give their workshop on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

superViVo robot // supervivo.daal.at

5uper.net/DAAL (AU) // 5uper.net
DAAL // 5uper.net DAAL

DKIA are based in Vienna as well, working and researching in the fields of media art, electronics, prototyping and sustainable innovations. In the last two years they focused on LED technology and realized several LED driven projects.
To just drop in some words what they're doing: web development, participating activism art, interactive talking cubes.
They gonna give a full day workshop Thursday and half day on Friday.

Jacob Korn talks about his main projects over the last years, beside being a musician and producer for Techno and House music. Automatic clubbing is one of it. Now called I.D.A (interactive dancefloor application) which is a collaborative instrument. In the beginning it would run with kalypso and max.msp stand alone. He collaborates with different people to realize several performances, such as Frieder Weiß, Matthias Härtig, intolight. Next project is Harmony Universe. An instrument mainly for children. They learn playing with music and rhythm through an interactive software and visuals on the floor (for instance). It is a collaborative instrument, so if the kids play well, it sounds well...max4life and vvvv is used for the software stuff. Another baby of Jacob is Uncanny Heroes - a workshop based development for a tool to let people interact with the sound and visuals they're confronted with in a normal party situation.

He will give a workshop for Abelton live on Thursday

Jacob Korn // jacobkorn.de
Harmony Universe // vimeo.com/9935622
Uncanny Heroes // intolight.de/projekte/uncanny-heroes

Lars Graugaard is basically talking about his great wish to have a software which does everything for him. Well, who doesn't. His longstanding research in music, working as a composer and programmer brought him to a constantly improving "organism" to make music and performances happen. One software, huge possibilities where and how to use it. Together with his students he enlarges the necessary patches for max.msp. Lars' aim is to have a flexible system to work with many different instruments and their very specific characteristics.

His workshop will be on Sunday.

Lars Graugaard // l--l.dk

After a small coffee break we continue with Jason Geistweidt (US/NO) and Brock Craft (UK).

Jason Geistweidt introduces us to his projects and philosophy of his work. It's all about collaboration  and trust and communication. Working on a huge project called "world opera" Jason is connected to 6 different countries in order to create and research how to make a world opera happen. In realtime of  course. Using video, OSC, vvvv and all you need, there is still the problem of time delay. Even if it is just about milli seconds still a lot of artists (musicians, dancers...) have problems to interact over camera to a different place in the world. Where am I? What is your time, what is mine?

Friday night there will be a linked performance with Oslo and California.

Last but not least Brock Craft talks about his work. Brock is an Interaction Designer, artist, and specialist in Physical Computing and Information Visualization. One of his many projects is "NetChimes". Basically you need a chime and a station to live stream it. Over a server you can listen to any chimes  listed on the server. We checked it out during his lecture and it worked perfectly.

His workshop for Arduino will be on Saturday.

Brock Craft // brockcraft.com
NetCHimes // netchimes.org/

Tomorrow starts an exciting day full of interesting workshops. I'll keep you updated!

(*)We is:

Marko Ritter - VVVV programmer - http://blog.intolight.de

Valérie-Françoise Vogt - graphic design - http://veevee.de

Jacob Korn - musician (Abelton, Max 4life) - http://www.jacobkorn.de/

Johanna Roggan - dancer, choreographer - www.moveonit.net

       theatre, dance, visual en edible art op private estates in Overijssel, the Netherlands

festival De Tuin der Lusten stops

Dear all,

The association of the festival De Tuin der Lusten decided to cancel the festival De Tuin der Lusten. The regional government no longer supports the festival. We are grateful that we could organise 9 beautiful events on 9 beautiful private estates. It was great to combine seemingly incompatible energies and to halt the moving artists for a moment in front of our extremely diverse audiences. A huge `thank you` to our team, the board, the landowners, the artists, the sponsors and the audiences.
In behalve of all the beautycausers
Casper de Vries

thanks to the organizers , Casper De Vries and Léonie Dijkema ,  I hope this festival will continue

programmering@detuinderlusten.nl

http://www.detuinderlusten.nl/index.php?news_id=20&lang=en

http://www.facebook.com/pages/de-Tuin-der-Lusten/348560846574

So It was a festival full of encounters his disappearance is incomprehensible as to its organization and as always with return. I hope this does not contaminate other locations transmission of emotion knowledge and culture. He still wanted to be one of the few cultural sites to submit emergentes people away from a programming agreement day scenes. I was fortunate to meet a brilliant choreographer Satya Roosens and dancers Mirte Courtens Jochum De Boer,  clowns, musicians  and other equally talented practitioners. So it seems important that everyone who experienced or not this festival takes a look at the festival web site and sends an email of support.

programmering@detuinderlusten.nl

http://www.detuinderlusten.nl/index.php?news_id=20&lang=en

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!

We have received an overwhelming response by artists in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Spain and more! As a result we have decided to extend the submissions deadline to April 10th, 2011 to allow more artists more time to send us their work. Keep the submissions coming, there’s extraordinary material and we’re so excited to find out about it! The call for submissions is here.

Join us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=752151042#!/pages/Between-the-Seas-Festival/128267620577566

Festival Tec-Art-Eco 01

Festival Tec-Art-Eco 01

GERMINATION

COMO / GALLARATE / LUGANO – 30 sept / 8 oct 2010 -

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Art, technological innovation, communica­tion and environmental sustainability are the focus of Tec-Art-Eco art and technology for the environment, promoted by Ariella Vidach – AiEP Association (MILAN) and Avventure in Eli­cottero Prodotti (LUGANO) with the support of the P.O. di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia – Svizzera / FESR – Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale.

A cultural project that travels within the Insubrica region (Lugano-Como-Gallarate) focused on the role of new technologies as a means for creating a pioneering model of cultu­ral eco-sustainable event that stands the test of time.

A three-year programme (2009-2011) of interdisciplinary festivals, productive labs, workshops and discussions with interna­tional guests. After the 2009 event in Lugano
and Gallarate, Como is hosting the first 2010 festival with the
participation of Alva Noto – Car­sten Nicolai, Eduardo Kac, Leo Hickman,
Daito Manabe and many artists and thinkers on the international scene

see more about Festival here

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!

Between the Seas Festival

New York City, August 29^th- September 4^th  2011

Join us in celebrating contemporary Mediterranean culture!

MISSION:

Between the Seas Festival is organized for the very first time in New York City from August 29^th to September 4^th 2011 at the Wild Project theater space in the heart of the East Village. The festival seeks to engage performing artists and researchers from the Mediterranean and Mediterranean diaspora with the following goals:

-       Share with New York City audiences the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary cultural production from the Mediterranean, aspects of which often remain inaccessible and under-represented in North America

-       Encourage exchange and future artistic collaborations between NYC-based and Mediterranean-based artists

-       Contribute to the examination of Mediterranean identity/ies by encouraging discussion and exploration of the region’s commonalities and differences as manifested in arts, history, culture, geography and politics

-       Generate interest and debate over Mediterranean identity and culture, envisioning the region’s potential as a model of cross-cultural exchange beyond polarizing and homogenizing discourses.

The festival is produced by Les Manouches Theater Company with the collaboration of distinguished scholars, theater practitioners and festival managers from the US and Europe.  

We now invite submissions for artistic performances [music, dance, theater] and scholarly papers from emerging and established artists, researchers and academic practitioners. The deadline for submissions is March 30th 2011. Please see  www.betweentheseas.org for information and submission guidelines in each category.For information email lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com

With limited resources, how should a dance film service organization best focus their efforts on nurturing the dance filmmaker? Do dance film festivals actually help the dance filmmaker? When DFA's Festival started in 1971, it formed a community, brought the user, producer, and filmmaker together. But now with over 5,000 film festivals and dance film festivals sprouting up everywhere, multiple options to screen your work on-line, what impact does a screening have on a filmmaker's career.  The "rejected" entrant rarely goes to the film festival they applied to.  So dance film screenings are not educating the new filmmaker.

How could time/energy/attention be directed in another way, to further the art of dance on camera?

To my mind, when 6/8s of the entrants are not chosen for any film festival, maybe there is a better way to nurture those 6/8s rather than saying "Thanks..better luck next time."

Could one do the same annual call for entries but instead of competing just for a screening(s) at various venues and a cash prize, maybe additional choices could be added, such as the following:

1) One on one consultations with: 

a. editor

b. cinematographer

c. choreographer

d. producer

e) idea/script advisor

2) Closed screening with feedback from the above

3) Introductions to:

TenduTv producer Marc Kirschner

Dance-tech.net guru Marlon :)

Wizkid of your choice....

4) Workshop with 10 at a time

But all the above would cost money. How much? Maybe the entrant could decide to chosen for tier 1 - screenings & cash - $35, Tier 2 - consultation - $60, or 3 - workshop -$75.

Hmmm...

Tonight 6-8:30pm Dance on Camera at Big Screen Project

See Dance on Camera shorts tonight at The Big Screen Project (BSP) and meet over 45 artists coming to celebrate the screening of their work. BSP “A Real Space Where People, Media, and Culture Connect” is an innovative venue for video, film, live and interactive content that sets a new standard for the urban, cinematic experience. Its 30 x 16.5 ft. HD format LED screen is on a wall outside in a  public plaza adjacent to the Eventi, a new 54-story multi-use building on Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Street in New York City. BSP is viewable from 29th and 30th streets (close to 6th Avenue), the atrium, FoodParc, and Bar Basque, a striking restaurant designed by BLADE RUNNER’s Syd Mead. Headsets upon request. Visit : The Big Screen Project Schedule.

Dance Films Association’s 39th annual, internationally touring festival is co-produced by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which provides its Walter Reade Theatre in Lincoln Center Plaza between January 28 and February 1st for 10 repeating programs, 4 shows daily, along with receptions, panels, talks, and an photography exhibit by James Starkman celebrating parkour. To buy tickets visit: filmlinc.com

Exhibit & Symposium in Walter Reade Theatre, Frieda & Roy Furman Gallery - FREE
For program details visit: Exhibit & Symposium Schedule.

11am, Friday January 28
Practice mash-up: dance/film/art (or how to work with rigor and risk)

noon, Friday, January 28
Distribution models for dance films

noon, Saturday, January 29
Screening opportunities for dance films

noon, Sunday, January 30
Felix presentation by Gabriela Estrada.

1-6pm, daily, until February 1 at Baryshnikov Arts Center at 37 Arts experience the master illusionist Billy Cowie's 3-D video installation. MEN IN THE WALL, a four-screen stereoscopic screen dance. 3D glasses allow the viewer to enter this multi-cultural world of four men, whose shared framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. Also shown are GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE and TANGO DE SOLEDAD. Award-winning Scottish video artist/composer Billy Cowie creates a delightfully amusing montage that beguiles as it inspires.

DFA’s annual Dance On Camera Festival celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Considered the “mother” of dance film festivals, DFA’s Festival presents a broad range of independent dance films, whether they be documentaries, shorts, narratives, or  animation. The year round touring program has been a revenue source for dance filmmakers since 2000.

Discounts for DFA member and Dance Affiliates Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research, and Dance Theatre Workshop. Become a member of DFA now

Special discount for dance-tech.net members in all tickets!
Show your profile page on dance-tech printed on in your smartphone (with a valid a ID) and you will get a special discount in all tickets.

Blooging about the festival?

VOLUNTEERS WANTED!

2011 Trailer/Dance on Camera Festival from Dance on Camera on Vimeo.

Wondering how Wim Wenders 3d film on Pina Bausch is being received at Berlin Film Festival, I scanned the website of this famous festival. What can be learned from how they run it?

Asked to do a self-evaluation for DFA's Board, I am exploring a bit beyond the same final report requested by any funding agency, such as NEA. What more could be done?

The Berlin Festival proudly presents 8 categories of films: 1) BIG name fiction features expecting big audiences, 2) art -house expecting small audiences, 3) films for the young, 4) films from Germany, 5) out-there & weird "disturbing" films, 6) Retrospective, 7) Homage to an actor 8) Shorts - only 30!

From that list, dance on camera festival shows the art house, out-there, retrospective and shorts. Occassionally DFA does an homage, such as last year's tribute to Alwin Nikolais. Perhaps next year we will do one for Gene Kelly. This year, DFA had the honor of offering Carlos Saura's FLAMENCO FLAMENCO US Premiere and simultaneous US premiere of Masayuki Suo's DANCING CHAPLIN. 

But what about films for the young or a US dance film program? Should these categories be promoted for Festival 2012? Are the Hollywood hip hop guy meets ballerina films the only dance films created for young eyes? Are they being made but they aren't being submitted to dance film festivals? Should we commission them?

Now back to wondering how the Berlin crowd will receive Pina Bausch....

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 artists/collaborators

Les Manouches theater company is looking for artists [visual,music,dance,performance], scholars and cultural workers based in NewYork who

-are originally from the Mediterranean

-who belong to the Mediterranean diaspora,

-whose work is informed by or interested in contemporary Mediterranean identity and culture

-who have a keen professional interest in Mediterranean culture

to join us for the creation of the MedInitiative. The MedInitiative will be a network and database that will provide information on the participating artists and their work andwill serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas, information and interests.Through the MedInitiative we seek to find artists and collaborators for theorganization of Between The Seas, a festival of Mediterranean performing artsin NYC. For more information and if you are interested in the project pleasesend your resume, and a letter expressing your interest and background to: lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com. Forinformation on Les Manouches please visit www.lesmanouches.wordpress.com