Dance For Camera Fest 2011

September 16th, 8 pm

 

Location: The Post Theater (MAP)

Short Films by Visiting Artist Katrina McPherson, introduced by the filmmaker.

There is a Place (videodance)

Duration: 7 minutes/2010

There is a place is a collaboration between Tibetan Chinese dancer/ choreographer Sang Jijia and Scottish screendance artists Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson, shot on location in the Scottish Highlands.

Awards:
Best Screendance short, San Francisco Dance Film festival, 2011
Best Screendance short Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, USA, 2011
Special Jury mention, Napolidanza, Il Coreografo Elettronico, Italy, 2011.

MOMENT (videodance)

Duration: 7 minutes/1999

Two women in a space. They are dancing. Their relationship moves through different moods and states. Their characters are gradually revealed through fragments of action. The significance of the moment, whether solitary or between them, is explored as time is slowed down, stretched, speeded up, repeated and stopped.

Moment was awarded the 'Best Screen Choreography' prize at the IMZ Dance Screen Festival in Monaco 2000. Moment has been screened at numerous festivals and curated programmes across the world, including Moving Pictures, Canada, Mostra Video Danza, Barcelona, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles and Rotation ’03 in Helsinki, Finland. It is toured internationally by the British Council as part of their Forward Motion program of innovative dance films and by IMZ Dance Screen as part of their award-winners program.

PACE (videodance)

Duration: 5 minutes/1995

Fast moving, rhythmical dance; a solo dancer moves, breathes, sweats, falls, stops, starts again. Her intense gaze draws us in with every turn of her head. Relentless speed is punctuated with moments of tension-filled calm.

Pace was commissioned as part of the BBC/Arts Council of Great Britain’s ‘Dance for the Camera’ series. Screened widely internationally including at Oberhausen short video festival, IMZ dancescreen, ADF Screendance, Videodanza Buenos Aires, Reel Dance Sydney.

Sense-8 (videodance)

A meditation on Contact Improvisation. Multiple layers of perception emerge through the moving cameras, the editing and the sound track, creating a multi-perspective experience of dance. The concept of observation is important as this happens between the dancers and the cameras and amongst the dancers themselves, not only through sight but also through hearing and energy.

Commissioned as part of the Arts Council England's 'Capture' series, Sense-8’ has been screen at many venues around the world, including Sydney Opera House and the Reel Moves tour of Australia and New Zealand.

ADUGNA (documentary)

Duration: 25 minutes/2001

This documentary celebrates the power of the creative arts by profiling the successful Adugna Community Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. What began as an experimental project in the streets of Addis Ababa is now a vibrant, internationally acclaimed, success story. It is a story of a struggling urban population and of empowerment; a story of social outreach and advocacy and of feeding skills back into the community.

The documentary has been used wisely as fund and awareness raising for Adugna and Dance United. It has also been screened at the National Film Theatre, London, as part of the Constellation Dance Film Festival; at the Teater Eestis, Tallinn, Estonia; as part of the Dance on Camera Festival in New York and as part of the Reel Moves Festival and Reel Moves Tour of Australia.

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