November 7, 2007

November Videodance Happenings

There are a bunch of intriguing dance film & video events happening this month both here in New York City and around the world. Below is a list of some I've come across. I've grouped them by location with New York City and U.S. events first, then branching out internationally. If you know of some others to include feel free to comment here and share with the videodance community.


NEW YORK EVENTS:

PERFORMA07
The second Visual Art Performance Biennial
Oct 27 - Nov 20, 2007
http://07.performa-arts.org

Somehow I completely missed the first PERFORMA Biennial in 2005, but this year's festival is chock full of must-sees. Below are the one's I've earmarked involving dance and screen: Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant
Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theatre - 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm Tues. Nov 6th through Sat. Nov 10th, 2007
Tickets and info: http://bam.org/events/08CAST/08CAST.aspx

Isaac Julien, a visual artist and filmmaker collaborates with UK-based choreographer Russell Maliphant to create a multimedia performance of three epic journeys through different landscapes. Julien has collaborated with notable choreographers in the past, including Bebe Miller and Stephen Galloway. This is his first evening-length performance work.

Press interviews: TimeOut, Bomb Magazine


Free screenings of Isaac Julien's Small Boats
Oct. 30 - Nov. 20, 2007
Metro Pictures
519 West 53rd Street
212.206.7100
www.metropicturesgallery.com
FREE


Performance On Demand
Opens Friday, November 2 through 17.
12 pm - 6pm FREE
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street 11th Floor
www.eai.org

The EFA Gallery transforms in to a video lounge to host Electronic Arts Intermix's viewing room, a program which provides free public access to one of the foremost collections of video art in the world.


REMAINS TO BE SEEN: New and Restored Films and Videos of Carolee Schneeman
Remains to Be Seen: Artist Talk & Screening
November 7th, 2007
6 pm, FREE
Electronic Arts Intermix
535 West, 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
T: 212 337 0680
www.eai.org

In conjunction with Anthology's program of screenings, EAI will commemorate their preservation of Carolee Schneemann's works with this special evening. Schneemann will be on-hand to speak about her work, answer questions from the audience and introduce a program of new videos and recently restored performance documentation pieces.

Other programs in REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
Nov 15, 7pm: Restorations & New Works
Nov 16-17, 7pm: Kitch's Last Meal
$8 , $6 , $5
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
T: (212) 505-5181
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org


Michael Williams & Melissa Brown, Time Booth
Nov 11, 2007 7 pm - 11 pm
FREE
Canada
55 Chrystie Street
www.canadanewyork.com

Time Booth is a screen-play that is written to be performed using a photo booth. The artists will push the visual capabilities of a vernacular photo booth to the limit using unexpected visual effects, original props, and lighting tricks. The final performance will be documented by the eye of the camera.


DANCE AFTER CHOREOGRAPHY
Nov. 12, 7pm: An Evening With Grand Union, featuring Douglas Dunn, Nancy Lewis, and Yvonne Rainer, all members of this legendary improvisational group.
Nov 13, 7pm: From Judson to the Present, includes film and video by Judson pioneers, as well by artists who flourished in the generation after Judson.
Nov 18, 4pm: The French Aftershock, two films showing the Judson influence in France.
$8 , $6, $5
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
T: (212) 505-5181

DANCE AFTER CHOREOGRAPHY looks at how the Judson Dance Theater took apart the conceptual underpinnings of "choreography," an intellectual process that greatly affected artists creating body-centric work, and remains pervasive today.


Eva & Franco Mattes (aka 010010110101101), Synthetic Performances
Nov 13, 2007
6 pm - 8 pm, FREE
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
New York, NY 10013
T: 212 226 3970
www.artistsspace.org

Eva and Franco Mattes will reenact three historical performances through their avatars, which were constructed out of the shape and surface of their bodies, in the online world, Second Life. Synthetic Performance is part of a series of performances that have taken place in synthetic worlds and videogames. People are invited to attend the live performances at Artist Space and interact with the videogame from within the gallery or from anywhere in the world.


Yvonne Rainer, RoS Indexical
November 18th - 19th, 2007
7 pm
Tickets: Ticketweb
The Hudson Theatre at Millennium Broadway Hotel
145 West, 44th Street,
New York, NY 10036-4012
T: 212 768 4400
www.millenniumhotels.com

In what is only her third live performance since her return to choreography in 2000, Yvonne Rainer looks to the controversial premiere of The Rite of Spring, the brilliant collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, which shocked Paris audiences in 1913 with its "primitive" movement vocabulary and dissonant musical score, as the springboard for a radical work of her own.


Daria Martin, Harpstrings & Lava
November 19th, 2007
7 pm
$8 , $4 , $6
Tickets: Ticketweb
Tribeca Grand Hotel Screening Room
Two Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212 519-6600
www.tribecagrand.com

American artist Daria Martin's film Harpstrings and Lava, created in collaboration with musician Zeena Parkins and actor Nina Fog, conjures the atmosphere of childhood anxieties in an expanded tableaux vivant that blends film, dance, painting, music and sculpture.


For those of you who can't make it to New York:
PERFORMA TV
www.performa-arts.org/tv
Although there is the potential for action at any time, performances will take place every day at 11 am and 9 pm.

Coinciding with duration of Performa07, PerformaTV is a 24/7 live and continuous Internet video stream broadcast from a stage-set designed by artist Ronnie Bass and hosted by Columbia University's School of Visual Arts. Scheduled and impromptu events from artists, curators, critics, and art historians will include interviews, discussions, performances and concerts.


LOS ANGELES:
DANCE MOViES Commission WORKSHOP
Wednesday, November 28th, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
In the main gallery space.
www.18thstreet.org

Led by EMPAC's Dance Curator Hélène Lesterlin Free and open to artists interested in applying to the commission. No need to register, just come!


INTERNATIONAL EVENTS:

Argentina:
DANCE MOViES Commission WORKSHOP
Thursday, November 8th, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Videodanza Festival International de Buenos Aires
For information and location: http://www.videodanzaba.com.ar/index.htm

Led by EMPAC's Dance Curator Hélène Lesterlin Free and open to artists interested in applying to the commission.


Columbia:
Imagen Movimiento
Video Danza 2007
23 al 25 de noviembre del 2007
Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá
http://www.imagenenmovimiento.org/

Programs include a retrospective of the work of Maya Deren, art and new technology, Columbian videodance, International videodance, and a presentation of the first festival award of Video Danza.


Netherlands:
dancescreen, The Hague 2007
November 15th - 18th, 2007
Filmhuis Den Haag
http://www.dancescreen.com

dance screen is the major international dance film and video festival, featuring an extensive programme, which brings together the newest dance films and videos, inspiring panels on the state of the arts as well as hot topic talks on community focal points. The festival will culminate in the dance screen Award Gala on Saturday, November 17th.


Portugal:
FRAME, International Dance-Video Festival
13-17 November, 2007
ESAP, na Rua do Comércio do Porto, nº , a 100 mts do Largo São Domingos
http://www.fabricademovimentos.pt/


United Kingdom:
The second international Opensource: {Videodance} symposium.
Universal Hall, Findhorn Foundation Community, Morayshire, Scotland
20th - 24th November 2007.
http://www.videodance.org.uk

Screen dance is a rapidly expanding area of artistic, academic and curatorial activity worldwide. Inherent in screen dance practice is the interface and collaboration between dance artists and media arts practitioners. Opensource: {Videodance} 2007 is an open symposium for artists, academics, curators and producers coming together, to share ideas and work, network and debate, and provide a valuable platform for current issues in the area of screen dance practice to come to the surface.


London International Dancefilm Festival 2007
Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December
http://www.londondancefilmfest.com/

The LIDFF will show a number of new, short dancefilms in each afternoon and evening session in between the main features. The final programme of Dancefilm Shorts will be published on the London Dancefilm Festival website from 25 October 2007.
Posted by Anna Brady Nuse on November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

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