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I've written quite a few posts on this blog about the United State's one and only major supporter of videodance, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY.

After two years of construction, on October 3rd EMPAC officially opened the doors of their new magnificent state-of-the-art media and performing arts center, and celebrated with two weekends of non-stop performances, screenings, installations and special events. I was lucky enough to be able spend the day on Saturday Oct 4th, seeing this amazing facility for myself. I traveled with a fellow dance filmmaker, Sabine Klaus (aka CreationEditor on dance-tech.net) who was visiting from Scotland. We took in the sights and Sabine recorded much of what she saw on video to create the 25 min vlog post below. Many thanks to Sabine for letting me share it with you here.



The building is a work of art in itself. Designed by the London-based architecture firm, Grimshaw, it is built into the side of a hill overlooking downtown Troy with views of Albany beyond. With its modern glass and steel exterior, and curvey wood interior it looks like both a starship landing dock, and a giant pickle barrel. It was a bit confusing to find one's way around the multitude of theaters, studios and galleries, but by the end of the day I'd gotten my bearings.

In 2007, with the support of a $1 million gift from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, EMPAC launched the DANCE MOViES Commission which supports the creation of several new experimental dance films by artists from the Americas each year. The premiere screening of the first DANCE MOViES Commission films took place in the huge Concert Hall space on a gigantic screen. I don't know enough to speak about the great acoustical and technical attributes of this space, but it was awesome to see dance films blown up so big with so much visual and sonic impact!

I thought the pieces that showed off the capabilities of the building the best, however were the interactive installations. The Wooster group made a 360 degree video installation that was supposed to be about life in wartime, but it made a more powerful statement about control and editing, as one viewer in the space, sitting in the "chosen" chair, was able to direct the gaze of the group by swiveling around. Wherever this one person looked, that was the part of the video that was in focus and audible. The piece was masterfully designed to look slipshod and casual, but underneath it was very manipulative, making you feel both in and out of control over the action. I'd love to see more pieces like this, but besides major art museums and institutions like EMPAC, it would be hard to find a place with the technical capabilities to mount it. Another great installation was Billie Cowie's 3-D "In the Flesh" in which viewers don the red and blue glasses to watch a dancer lift herself off of a zebra print rug. Like a ghost being conjured at a séance, it felt creepy to see her delicate hand reaching up to me, almost touching, and then fading away.

All in all, EMPAC is an amazing place for experimental artists, but after visiting I had a few questions about what its real world impact will be. Here in New York City, spaces to make and show experimental dance and media are more scarce than ever. Perhaps Troy and Albany will become a new destination for artists seeking cheap and plentiful real estate with adequate cultural and community benefits to support them, but even in up-state New York, the great disparity between rich and poor is quite striking. EMPAC is really designed for world class artists who already have the capabilities, funding, and expertise to take advantage of the unsurpassed technological resources this facility can provide. This makes sense given their situation at one of the world's most prestigious technical/engineering institutions.

Even in the arts, it seems the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I would just like an empty room with lights and heat to rehearse in, and perhaps a new video camera that can record high quality footage. I'd like to be able to pay my dancers and crew adequate compensation for their time and talents, and I'd like to not have to work three jobs in order to practice my art. There is a big gulf between the gutter most of us live in and the glimmering edifice of EMPAC. We need to create a bridge to be able to reach these glorious technological dreamlands of the future. This means radically rethinking how we build support, create community, and raise the value of our work. EMPAC makes experimental art look valuable and appealing to the wider world, but its up to us artists to raise the quality of our work to match those expectations. This takes many carefully measured steps to cultivate  donor networks, major funders, and presenters whose support will be necessary to reach that glittering gem on the top of the hill.

This is one of those weeks of when the amount of cool stuff going on in the NYC area has reached a critical mass. I feel compelled to share with you the several of particular interest to dance and media lovers:

DV8 Physical Theatre on Tour!
This company, under the direction of Lloyd Newson has brought us some of the greatest dance films ever made including THE COST OF LIVING, ENTER ACHILLES, DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN, and STRANGE FISH. Newson's working process is generally to create a stage show and then completely re-envision it for screen. You won't want to miss their latest live work "TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU", only playing at two more venues in the US! See info below:

2nd - 5th October .... Kasser Theater, tix
MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, USA

9th - 10th October .... Memorial Hall, UNC, tix
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
EMPAC Grand Opening!
The Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY is an incredible facility with even more incredible art-making and programming happening inside of it. Come up to celebrate the opening of the new building and check out the first DANCE MOViES Commissions featuring Kino Eye by Joby Emmons and Elena Demyanenko; Nora by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, choreographed by Nora Chipaumire; Veterans by Victoria Marks and Margaret Williams; and PH Propriedad Horizontal created by David Fariás, Carla Schillagi and Maria Fernanda Vallejos.

 

Kinetic Cinema Screening with Elizabeth Zimmer!
Elizabeth Zimmer is a renown dance writer and critic as well as the editor of the seminal book on dance for the camera: "Envisioning Dance On Film and Video." You won't want to miss this Kinetic Cinema in which she shares some of her favorite movement-based videos and talks about her interest in dance for the camera.

Kinetic Cinema
Monday October 6th, 7:00pm (and the first Monday of every month)
$5 Admission (buy tix at the door)

IRT Theater
154 Christopher Street, Suite 3B (btw Washington & Greenwich Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212.206.6875
Trains: 1 to Christopher Street, PATH to Christopher Street
Admission: $5
 

Interactive dance/media workshop:
FREE WORKSHOP IN ACTIVE SPACE
Presented by MRX with UC Irvine

Saturday, October 18
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Free Admission

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 W. 37th Street
(between 9th & 10th Avenues)
New York, NY 10018

Jodi Gates - choreographer
Lisa Naugle - choreographer/improviser
John Crawford - interactive media artist
with guest artists
Patrick Corbin and CorbinDances
The Active Space is John Crawford's interactive media
environment that engages participants in a dialog of
mutual influence involving movement, visuals and sound. It supports body-centered performance practices integrated with software systems for motion tracking, live video processing, special effects and interactive music.

• Work from a somatic, open-looped structure with Lisa Naugle and experience spatial-perceptual movement techniques for whole-body connectedness in the Active Space. This session will focus on developing choice-making, dynamic flow, and dance-technology interaction.
• See new dance/media choreography by Jodie Gates, performed by Patrick Corbin and CorbinDances in the Active Space. 
• Participate in choreographic exploration based on William Forsythe's improvisational technologies combined with Jodie Gates's own choreographic and teaching methods.

SPACE IS LIMITED; REGISTER NOW:
Email info@movementresearch.org
OR
Call 212.598.0551, ext. 261

For More Information:http://dance.arts.uci.edu/nyc

In case you haven't noticed, there is a page called Dance Film Submission Deadlines (under the Background section of this blog) that I've been up-dating regularly with new opportunities for dance filmmakers. Right now there's lots of great stuff coming up to submit your work to. See the list below, and check this page regularly for new events.


FEBRUARY 2008

CALL FOR WORKS

O dança em foco -International Video & Dance Festival is receiving applications for its International Videodance Screenings. The 2008 edition will take place in September in Rio de Janeiro followed by other cities, with free public showings.

The applications will only be accepted thought the site www.dancaemfoco.com.br

If interested please send dance documentaries and videodance works by 29 February 2008 to the following address:

dança em foco - Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança
a/c Paulo Caldas
Rua General Glicério 144 / 202 - Laranjeiras
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
CEP 22.245-120

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The 3rd International Vdance festival at the Cinemateque Tel Aviv (Cinematek), Israel
The festival will run for 3 days showing international and Israeli work that explores the connection between film and movement - showing video dance and contemporary dance films plus experimental films from beginning of 20th century.
 
Festival dates: 12 - 14 June 2008
Venue: Cinemateque Tel Aviv

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 29, 2008
artists should submit their work on DVD format (2 copies). 
including:
a document with Name of artist, Postal address, E-mail address, Phone number , Name of the piece (Title), Name of Director, Name of Choreographer, Name of Producer, year in which the work has been made, length of the piece, and a short description of the piece.
 
Send it to:
Vdance - The International Festival of Video-Dance
Cinemateque Tel Aviv
2 Sprinzak St.
Tel Aviv 64738
Israel
 
For inquries and information contact:
vdance2008@gmail.com

DANCEDOC SLAM
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Green Space, 37-24 24^th St., Long Island City
An interactive peer-review workshop that provides choreographers and dancers the opportunity to present video documentation of their work for critique by experts in the field. The panel will lead a discussion on the best ways to document dance pieces on film for venues, festivals and funding applications based on five pre-selected video submissions.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
To submit your video sample for critique please send a DVD clearly labeled with the name of the artist and contact information to:

Independence Arts Builds Community Submissions
Queens Council on the Arts
One Forest Park at Oak Ridge
Woodhaven, NY 11421-1166

Submissions should be 3-5 minutes. Please note that this workshop is directed towards the documentation of dance pieces not narrative or artistic films involving dance. Only a limited number of submissions will be discussed at the workshop.

For more information email chenderson@queenscouncilarts.org or visit: http://www.queenscouncilarts.org/html/artsservices-dancedoc.html

MARCH 2008

EMPAC DANCE MOVIES COMMSSION 2008: OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The deadline for the proposals is March 1, 2008.

For more information on EMPAC and the DANCE MOViES Commission, or to download the guidelines and application form, please visit the EMPAC website:
http://www.empac.rpi.edu

DANCE MOViES Commission application process:
The EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission is a competitive open proposal process, in which eligible artists submit a project proposal.  The initial proposals are reviewed and a small number of artists are invited to submit a detailed proposal to an international panel. The panel assesses the quality and feasibility of the proposed project and submits its recommendations to EMPAC. The commissions are awarded by EMPAC after review.

Upon awarding of the commission, the artist or collaborative team has one year to complete the project, at which point the work is premiered at EMPAC, shown at dance film festivals around the world, and credited as an EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The American Dance Festival calls for innovators to step forward with submissions for the 13th annual Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance. Showcasing the best of fusions between cinematographic skill and choreographic vision, Dancing for the Camera has screened to international audiences more than 250 dance films by filmmakers from over 20 countries.  Directed by dance filmmaker and curator, Douglas Rosenberg, the 2008 festival will take place July 11-13, in conjunction with the ADF's 75th Anniversary. 

Seeking high artistic quality, all entries will be adjudicated in one of four categories by a panel of jurors whose selections will screen at the festival. Certificates of Distinction will be awarded to works of exceptional merit.

Submissions should align with one of the following areas:
Choreography for the Camera--original work made specifically for video or film or re-staged for the camera.
Documentaries--productions that include interviews or other educational elements in addition to choreography.
Experiment and Digital Technologies--work that extends the boundaries of dance and can exist only in video, film, or new technologies.
Student Work--submissions produced while the filmmakers were students or by current students.
The early deadline for film/video submissions is March 11, 2008, by 6pm with an entry fee of $30. 
All submissions must meet the final deadline of April 11, 2008, by 6pm.  The entry fee for late submissions is $40.  Download the entry form.  

For more information on Dancing for the Camera, including registration, entry forms, and guidelines for submission please visit www.americandancefestival.org

Questions regarding the call for entries should be directed to adf@americandancefestival.org or 919.684.6402.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The 2008 dance event for the Dowagiac Dogwood Fine Arts Festival is "Dancing Outside the Box: A Video& Film Festival of Dance."  On Saturday, May 10, 2008 select films will be shown at the Theatre in the Dale A. Lyons Building on the campus of Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan.
 
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We seek films or videos that blend dance and film of all kinds.  We will accept dance made for the camera, documentary, short film, adaptation of a stage work or site specific creation, or music video.  Content must be family friendly.
 
ENTRY REGULATIONS

• Entries must be received in DVD or VHS format

• Entry form and media must be postmarked by March 15, 2008
• If you would like your media returned please send self addressed mailer with return postage.  We are not responsible for returning preview media without a specific request and postage.
• Dogwood Fine Arts Festival is given the right to use excerpts from your video, if chosen for the festival in all Dogwood promotional materials.
• DISCLAIMER/LIABILITY: every effort will be made to protect entries while in the Festival's care; however, the Festival and its sponsor do not assume liability for damage or loss to DVD's or videotapes.

Send entry form and VHS/DVD to:
Dogwood Fine Arts Festival
PO Box 526
Dowagiac, MI 49047
Attn:Amy
Direct questions to:
Amy Rose  269.580.1447
 craigamy@btc-bci.com  subject:Dogwood

APRIL 2008

Entry Call 2008                                               
Dance film entries are now being accepted for the 2008 SHOOT - Dance for Screen festival
 
SHOOT - Dance for Screen, the Swedish dance for screen festival celebrates the fifth anniversary with festival in four cities: Stockholm-Luleå-Göteborg-Malmö.
Screenings, seminars, discussions, workshops, 3D installation, national and international guests.
 
We are looking for dance films and videos in various styles, completed in 2006-2008, that combine choreography and cinematography.
We welcome shorts, features, animation and video clips.
 
Festival date: Oct/Nov 2008
Submission deadline: 2 April 2008
 
MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO SUBMIT:
go to www.modernadansteatern.se
or email stina@modernadansteatern.se


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

EDIT2008
4. International Dance Film Festival, Budapest
Organised by Workshop Foundation in co-operation with Budapest Autumn Festival
Planned date: 10-13 October 2008

We are accepting original films and videos on dance and movement, camera re-works and experimental projects on body and gestures with no restriction on its length and subject.

A DVD format copy should be sent to Workshop Foundation no later than 15 April 2008 (postmark).

Workshop Foundation / Gabor Pinter
1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41.
HUNGARY

It is also the deadline for submitting the on-line ENTRY FORM.

A professional jury will select the films into the screening programme. Applicants will be informed about the decision by 30 July 2008.

Do not hesitate to contact us for further information: editfest@yahoo.com

Thank you,

Gabor Pinter
Program Curator

ON-GOING (No deadlines)

VIDEO ART REQUEST

I am glad to invite you to show your videos in the channel WEBTV.sepiensa,
an internet channel dedicated exclusively to video-art, performance documantation, etc.

WEBTV.sepiensa has the support of Sepiensa.net [debate.art.society]. Curatoria Forense and Fondo Nacional Audiovisual (Chile)

If you are interested in participate, you can send the video(s) to jorge@numcero.cl through YOUSENDIT (http://www.yousendit.com/) if the file has less than 100 MB or by postal mail (DVD or CD) to:

Jorge Sepúlveda T.
Casilla de Correo 68,
Sucursal 12 Capital
Buenos Aires, Argentina

technical requirements:
- file in AVI format (compress as RAR or ZIP)
- at least 640 x 480 pixels
- 10 minutes max. each video
- information of each video (title, author, date)

By sending your video, WEBTV.sepiensa is authorized to use it for public exhibition on internet and activities related to the promotion of WEBTV.sepiensa.

Best regards,

Jorge Sepulveda T. (alias lulo)
Curador Independiente
www.curatoriaforense.net

Hi All.

I apologize for the sparse postings the past couple of weeks. I've been slammed with school work at the end of the semester (I'm studying Media Management at the New School). I'll share some of the wealth of my newly acquired knowledge soon, but in the meantime, here are some dance film/video events coming up this month.

Next Tuesday, December 11th
Dance Film Lab
@ South 4th Bar in Williamsburg
90 South 4th Street @ Berry
Subways: L at Bedford, J,M,Z at Marcy Ave.
Phone: 718.218.7478
8pm, free

The bi-monthly Dance Film Lab is a friendly gathering of folks interested in dance for the camera. People share their works (in any stage of progress) and get constructive feedback from the group. We all get to share who we are, what we're doing, and what we need (which often gets miraculously granted!). And our gracious moderator Zach Morris (of Third Rail Projects blog) always makes everyone feel very warm and welcome. So come out, but shoot an email Zach first just so he knows you're coming.

Last night I attended the DANCE MOViES Commission workshop run by my friend Hélène Lesterlin, dance curator at EMPAC (Experimental Media Performing Arts Center) in Troy, NY. It was a very inspiring presentation about the commission and the possibilities for creative experimentation in dance and media at EMPAC. The ratio of commission awards to applicants is very low, however I think it is still well worth applying to, for the process alone, and also to show the funding community that there are a lot of American artists out there that want to make dance for screen. Eventually other funders will sign on and join EMPAC's efforts to support this fantastic genre. So Viva EMPAC and DANCE MOViES!

There is a wonderful festival in the Netherlands this month that I wish I could attend, called Dancing on the Edge: Confronting Dance from the Middle East. It's a dance festival with a dance film component curated by Cinedans. The dance films are all from the Middle East, or made by artists from there, and tackle many topics from "West Bank Story" - a remake of the famous musical with competing Falafel stands and a taboo Israeli Palestinian love affair - to  "Horizon of Exile" a breath-taking installation about two Iraqi women torn between their country and their need to escape. Incidentally "Horizon of Exile" will be shown this January in New York during the Dance On Camera Festival. I can't wait to see it!

So if you are in the Netherlands or thereabouts I highly recommend you check this festival out.

Dancing on the Edge
Confronting Dance from the Middle East
Amsterdam: 12-16 december
Rotterdam: 13-18 december
Groningen: 11-12 & 18-19 december

And to leave you with some moving images to muse over, my friend Hope Hall, a filmmaker, and occasional dance filmmaker, hipped me to this blog, La Blogotheque, where she shot one of their videos in the TakeAway Series. Essentially they shoot a band performing in some non-traditional space all in one take, and then post the take on their blog. Seems like a great idea for a videodance series too.

This is one of those TakeAways, and while it's really a music video, it does have some adorable dancing, and it'll make you want to move. So take it away!

I just added a new page called Dance Film Submission Deadlines on the upper-right side bar listing up-coming festival and funding deadlines for submissions. I'll try to keep this list up-dated frequently, but let me know about other opportunities I may have missed by sending me an email or commenting here.

Below are up-coming deadlines:

DECEMBER 2007

Fifth Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Boulder, CO USA
call for entries
Deadlines December 21, 2007 and January 18, 2008
Festival dates: April 4 and 5, 2008

Sans Souci, an international festival of dance cinema, screens short works that integrate dance with cinematic elements. We have an expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for highly experimental and interdisciplinary forms, including mixed-media works that incorporate live performance.

Entry fees: $25 and $40 for the early and final deadlines respectively
Visit http://www.sanssoucifest.org/ for more details and a downloadable entry form.
Submissions are encouraged from all artists regardless of credentials and affiliations.

Below is an on-going list of up-coming festival and funding submission deadlines. Please feel free to contact me if you have a call for submissions to post. --- Anna Brady Nuse

NOVEMBER 2008

Call for works influenced by Busby Berkeley:
Dance On Camera Festival January 2009

Kriota Willberg is seeking clips from film, video, or digital media directly influenced by the camera work, staging, or choreographic styles of Busby Berkeley.  As a part of the Dance On Camera Festival, in the lobby of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, January 2009,  Kriota Willberg is presenting a short program on the impact of Berkeley's  penchant for crazy camera moves, sex,  elaborate staging, geometry, and stream-of-consciousness editing style on the work of mainstream, independent, and fringe media.  There is no budget, no stipend for the use of your media in this presentation (admission is free), but your clip will be credited to you, a part of the festival, and seen at Lincoln Center.  Clips can feature dancing, fights, inanimate objects, animation, live action, stop motion, you name it.  The more unusual, the better.  Copyright for media should be held by you.  I'd also welcome your contribution of found clips that are known to be in public domain.  Please contact kriota@earthlink.net

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Festival International de Vidéo Danse du Breuil
International Video Dance Festival of Le Breuil 

Video dance entries are now being accepted for the first annual International Video Dance Festival of Le Breuil, sponsored by the National Theatre of France and the City of Le Breuil (Burgundy). In addition, we are seeking dance photography submissions and a limited number of screen dance installations to be considered for an exhibition that will run in conjunction with the festival screenings.  While we are not accepting documentaries, any other genre or screen dance format will be considered, including works that may not traditionally be thought of as "dance", but capture a strong sense of the way images are choreographed on camera and/or the manner in which movement is navigated in a time-based medium.  The festival will take place in March 2009. 

All submissions must be received before November 5, 2008.  

For submission guidelines, please visit our festival blog at: http://www.videodansedubreuil.wordpress.com or contact us at: videodansedubreuil@yahoo.com

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21, 2009Deadlines: November 28, 2008 and January 2, 2009
Entry fees: $25 and $40 for the early and final deadlines respectively
Visit http://www.sanssoucifest.org/ for more details and an online entry form.
Submissions are encouraged from all artists regardless of credentials and affiliations.

Sans Souci, an international festival of dance cinema, screens short works that integrate dance with cinematic elements. We have an expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for highly experimental and interdisciplinary forms, including mixed-media works that incorporate live performance. The Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema is supported by the Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Dance Department of University of Colorado at Boulder.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The FEDAME (as called in Spanish) created in 2006, exhibits every two years, the best of the international videodance in public squares. For its second edition the FEDAME welcomes all videodances (choreographies made specially for the camera) between 3 and 10 minutes long. The FEDAME is a non competitive, non-commercial festival. The FEDAME is the only Festival IN MEXICO which presents croosroads between performing arts, visual arts and electronic media.

All info on: www.fedame.org.mx
e-mail: contacto@fedame.org.mx

Deadline: November 30

DECEMBER 08

SUBMIT YOUR MEDIA
Dance Camera West

Early Deadline: December 16, 2008
Final Deadline: January 15, 2009

As the world of dance and media evolve to include new innovative forms, so does our festival evolve from year to year with changing venues and unique events. We partner with some of LA's most prestigious institutions along with unconventional settings attracting 1000's of audience members each year.

Dance Camera West welcomes dance media in any dance style or genre. Categories include: screendance, short films, features, documentary, installations, and interactive dance media. We look forward in seeing your new work and if you have something outside the listed categories let us know.

Please click here for entry form

DISTRIBUTION GRANT FOR NEW YORK STATE ARTISTS

JANUARY 09

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Montage Video Dance Festival 2009

 

Deadline for entires: Friday 16 January 2009

Criteria: Video works should be between 2 to 30 minutes, involve movement, dance, choreography and the moving image made specifically for the screen and should not be filmed live performance, nor documentaries. They may be linear, nonlinear or abstract in narrative. They may include animation or special effects to amplify the intention of the video maker.

Format: DVD, PAL.

Fees: There no no entry/submission fees and no door takings.

 

1)  Email details to: Gerard Bester gerardb@mweb.co.za

Details to include: Cast and Crew list

Title, Date, running time, format, production company, funders.

A 50 word synopsis, Director, Producer, Editor, Choreographer, Camera, Dancers, Lights, Composer, Costumes, Production design, Sound design, Special Effects, 4:3 or 16:9

2)    Email 2 jpeg images to: gerardb@mweb.co.za

3)    Send PAL DVD, cd of stills and written details registered mail to:

Manager of Montage 2009, Gerard Bester,

16 Rhodes Avenue, Parktown West, 2193, Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

Please note that montage has established a video dance archive at Dibuka, The French Information Centre in Johannesburg, and would very much like to keep your video dance for the purposes of growing the art form and for educational purposes.

Thanking you

Manager & Curator Gerard Bester gerardb@mweb.co.za 

Founder & Director Jeannette Ginslov jeannette.ginslov@gmail.com

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Cinedans 09
Festival date: July 2009.
Submission deadline: 16 January 2009

We are looking for dance films and videos in various styles, that combine choreography and cinematography.
We welcome shorts, features, documentaries, stage adaption, animation and video clips.

What do we offer?
• Cinedans Award, best film 2009, prize 1000 EUR
• Cinedans Audience Award
• Jury Special Mentions
• Cinedans on tour through Netherlands
• Cinedans on tour international including Cape Town, Shanghai, and Beijing.
• The touring possibilities will be negotiated with the filmmakers.
• The festival will have seminars, introductions by dance filmmakers, Q&A, a video library and sales of new dance DVD's!

HOW TO SUBMIT:  Go to www.cinedans.nl> entry 09

Call for entries:

moves - movement on screen
23-28 April 2009
in Manchester & the UK
onscreen and online
www.movementonscreen.org.uk 

moves is the largest exhibition platform in the UK for experimental short film
and new media with a unique focus on movement on screen, exploring new
ways of telling stories through films, installations and screen-based works.

For its 5th year, moves09 is looking at stories beyond movement, exploring the
narrative possibilities of movement on screen through screenings, installations,
live events, open-source forums...

moves is now inviting artists to submit their work for the 2009 festival;
deadline is 30th January 2009.

Under the theme "Beyond movement... what's your story?", moves welcome
short films and screen-based works completed in 2007 or later, exploring
choreographed movement and storytelling. For full details and to download a
submission form, go to www.movementonscreen.org.uk

Experience, create, debate... and celebrate with us 5 years of movement on
screen!

ON-GOING (No deadlines)

DTW's CALL FOR MEMBER VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

DTW has a new Members Only section of their website, and one of the features is a Member Video of the Week. The Video of the Week allows members of Dance Theater Workshop to share video based work with their fellow members. Videos are prominently displayed on the Members Only Welcome Page for one week; there is no fee to participate in Video of the Week. The videos are posted in the order they are received and are non-currated

Guidelines for Submission

• Videos must be hosted by a third party site such as YouTube or Vimeo. Video dimensions should be no larger than 425px x 355px
• To submit your video, email the html embedding code provided by the site as well as credits for the video to richert@dtw.org . Please do not send original files.

Policies
Videos are posted on the Dance Theater Workshop site in the order they were received and are non-curated. Videos should be high quality and resolution; members are notified if Dance Theater Workshop is unable to host the video due to low quality. The video of the week is intended for work created for the camera; documentation of live performances will not be posted. Members may submit one video per month.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
F R A M E W O R K S
Dance film Series
at Galapagos Art Space Brooklyn, NY
Rolling deadlines

Mission
Frameworks seeks to provide a vital, consistent and supportive stage for presenting new works of dance film from across the country. The films will be chosen for their creativity within the cinematic medium and excellence in choreography with a special focus on smaller budget films that do not otherwise have the opportunity to be seen or appreciated.

Eligibility
We are seeking original works of choreography for the camera, less than 20 minutes in length, and created in the last five years. We have adopted a loose definition of "dance film" that includes any work in which the movement is paramount, and created specifically for the camera. Documentaries will not be considered.

Although the first screening in summer 2008 will be restricted to New York based artists and companies, the subsequent screenings will showcase work from everywhere. So please, submit now and your film will be considered on a rolling basis.

For more information and to download application go to: http://www.frameworksdance.org/

VIDEO ART REQUEST

I am glad to invite you to show your videos in the channel WEBTV.sepiensa,
an internet channel dedicated exclusively to video-art, performance documantation, etc.

WEBTV.sepiensa has the support of Sepiensa.net [debate.art.society]. Curatoria Forense and Fondo Nacional Audiovisual (Chile)

If you are interested in participate, you can send the video(s) to jorge@numcero.cl through YOUSENDIT (http://www.yousendit.com/) if the file has less than 100 MB or by postal mail (DVD or CD) to:

Jorge Sepúlveda T.
Casilla de Correo 68,
Sucursal 12 Capital
Buenos Aires, Argentina

technical requirements:
- file in AVI format (compress as RAR or ZIP)
- at least 640 x 480 pixels
- 10 minutes max. each video
- information of each video (title, author, date)

By sending your video, WEBTV.sepiensa is authorized to use it for public exhibition on internet and activities related to the promotion of WEBTV.sepiensa.

Best regards,

Jorge Sepulveda T. (alias lulo)
Curador Independiente
www.curatoriaforense.net

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:

In follow-up to my post about EMPAC's fabulous DANCE MOViES Commission, below is a new announcement from Hélène Lesterlin, EMPAC's Dance Curator, about a series of free workshops she will be holding in LA, Buenos Aires and New York in November and December. These workshops are designed to help artists prepare strong proposals to EMPAC and other grant-making foundations to fund new dance film/video/installation projects. With so few grants specifically earmarked for videodance, this is a rare opportunity every dance filmmaker in North and South America should take advantage of.



November:  DANCE MOViES Commission WORKSHOPS
led by EMPAC's Dance Curator Hélène Lesterlin

Last night I attended DanceNYC's Townhall event "Does Dance have a future? Implications of a Technological World". The panel, consisting of Doug Fox (my patron saint) of Greatdance.com,  Doug McLennan of ArtsJournal.com, and Jonah Bokaer of Chez Bushwick communicating via webcam from Australia, helped stir up the ideas, but what was really great about it for me was that there were all these amazing people there that I got to meet in the flesh after much online dialogue. Everyone who came is doing such great things in the dance world, and the progressive thoughts that got passed around before, during, and after the meeting were really inspiring and up-lifting.

I finally got to meet bloggers Tonya Plank of Swan Lake Samba Girl, Kristin Sloan of The Winger and The (Inter)mission, and Jeff Weinstein a dance and theatre critic whose blog Out There is on ArtsJournal.com. Clare Byrne was there, a choreographer I've heard so much about and whose work I've only seen online despite the fact we both live and work in NYC! Linda Lewett is a video producer that I met last January at EMPAC in Troy, NY who's done tons of dance video work for years. Marketing people from several dance companies were there including Susan Marshall &  Co., Alvin Ailey, New York City Ballet and Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre. Plus I met some wicked cool independent choreographers who are foraying into the digital world, Kimberly Young of dance-elephant.org and Malinda Allen of Allen Body Group. This is just a partial sampling of the people I got to talk to.

Hélène Lesterlin, dance curator of EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has sent out a call for proposals for the 2008 DANCE MOViES Commission. Last year was the first year of this amazing and innovative program to commission 3-5 new videodance pieces by North or South American artists. I know of only one other commissioning program of this type in the Americas, and that is Bravo FACT! in Canada, which is only open to Canadian artists. EMPAC is filling a great need for the videodance community, and hopefully it will become a model for other funding organizations to emulate.

The competition is tough (last year only 4 proposals out of 163 were chosen), however the rewards are great including a cash grant, screening opportunities, and in late 2008 when their new building is complete artists may also receive valuable creative residency time using their state of the art facilities. The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2008. Guidelines and information are below: