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DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 premieres

Premieres of five commissioned works where dance and video combine: in one, three street kids in the streets of Rio seem to juggle air; in another, a dancer and an incandescent hoop rotate in a black void; and in another, multiple video screens installed side by side layer film samples and a dancer’s gestures to create counterpoints of movement and image. Chosen by an international panel at EMPAC, these works represent the third round of the DANCE MOViES Commission program.

The screenings will be immediately followed by a panel discussion including the filmmakers and curator.

Curator: Hélène Lesterlin

Tickets are REQUIRED for this event



DANCE MOViES Commissions 2009-2010:

Anatomy of Melancholy, Mexico, 6.5 minutes

  • Director: Nuria Fragoso

Visual metaphors about space portray the melancholy that underlies contemporary society. Recursive imagery and gesture accumulate to reveal the catharsis of individuals who are faced with profound isolation in today's communicative processes.

HOOP, Canada, 4 minutes

  • Director: Marites Carino
  • Choreographer/Performer: Rebecca Halls
  • Composer: Anthony Tan
  • D.O.P.: Donald Robitaille

Floating in a black void, swinging through shafts of light, a woman keeps an incandescent and familiar circular childhood toy in perpetual motion.

Quince Missing, USA, 16 minutes

  • Director/Choreographer: Rajendra Serber

In this exploration of urban isolation, three strangers tracing their solitary paths through empty streets at night become locked in anonymous antagonism when trying to pass each other.

The closer one gets, the less one sees, Brazil, 10 minutes

  • Videomaker: Valeria Valenzuela
  • Choreographer: Lilyen Vass
  • Production: Aura Films

Intervention in the everyday lives of three street jugglers/beggars in Rio transforms the objective action of their juggling into the abstract vocabulary of contemporary dance.

MO-SO, USA, 10 minutes, looping video installation

  • Director: Kasumi
  • Composer: Fang Man
  • Dancer: Chan U Hong

Multiple video screens installed side-by-side layer film samples and a dancer’s gestures to create counterpoints of movement and image.

The DANCE MOViES Commission:

The selection panel that awarded the commissions was comprised of Magne Antonsen (Norway), Kelly Hargraves (USA), Nayse Lopez (Brazil), Elizabeth Zimmer (USA), and Hélène Lesterlin, curator of dance, 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 has had a significant national and international impact, making the creation of seventeen new works possible. The first four DANCE MOViES Commissions were premiered at EMPAC’s opening celebration in October 2008, and there are currently four more projects in production, which will premiere in the fall of 2011.

The DANCE MOViES 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.


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