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DANCE MOViES Commission
The DANCE MOViES Commission supports the creation of new works for the screen which vary widely in content and form, yet are united by the fact that the image on the screen was crafted by, or in collaboration with, a choreographer or movement-based artist. The works supported combine the possibilities and range of the moving image in all its technological facets with the physicality and movement-based modes of dance.
Examples of works supported by the commission include films that are narrative-driven, using the conventions of filmic story-telling; some may be abstract works which mine the inherent sympathies between the time-based, visual aspects of both dance and film; some may not even feature “dance” as is generally defined, but contain a powerful sense of how movement unfurls in time and how we create meaning from the dance of images; some may take advantage of tools such as computer processing, motion capture, simulation, animation, and image processing; and some may extend the confines of the single screen to multiple screens or projections.
The DANCE MOViES Commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts.
2008
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stats: Selected from over 100 applications, of which 28 were short-listed, the 4 funded projects represent the second round of awards given out through the EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission. In this year’s pool, 80% of initial proposals came from the US, 7% from Canada, 9% from Argentina, 3% from Brazil, 1% from Mexico.
DANCE MOViES Commission 2008 Info:
2007
An international panel met in May 2007 to select the four winning projects for the . With awards ranging from $7,000 to $42,000, these works represent the first commissions given out through this new program. They will be premiered in the fall of 2008 at EMPAC's opening.
Kino-Eye directed by Joby Emmons and Elena Demyanenko (USA) — A work combining the aesthetic of video surveillance in post-Soviet Russia and the filmed movements of a contemporary Russian dancer. (8 minutes)
Nora directed by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, choreographed by Nora Chipaumire, soundscore by Thomas Mapfumo, produced by Joan Frosch (USA/Zimbabwe/Mozambique/UK) — a dense and swiftly moving poem of sound and image that tells the story of a dancer growing up in Zimbabwe (35 minutes)
PH Propiedad Horizontal created by David Farias, Carla Schillagi and Maria Fernanda Vallejos (Argentina) — a group of dancers use a narrow passageway, typical for Argentinean urban housing, to create an elegant, abstract, and lively piece of pure movement and form. (5-7 minutes)
Soldier (photo from Men) directed/choreographed by Victoria Marks, directed by Margaret Williams (USA/UK) — a dance film featuring US veterans who have recently returned from Iraq. (10-12 minutes)
Stats: 163 applications were submitted – 82% from the US, 10% from Canada, 4% from Argentina, with artists also applying from Uruguay, Paraguay, France and the UK.
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