Category: screendance
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Creative screendance exchange
Emma Wilson is an ex dance student of mine (Deakin University) and a dancer in one of my early screendance works “Neglect“ A few months ago she got back in touch asking if I would be interested in being part of a mentoring/creative exchange project with her. The result was two months of virtual exchange…
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Communal Bloom Strategy
Another great initiative from Dance Hub SA that I am pleased to be a recipient of is the Dance.Focus project, supporting the making of 4 new screendance works to be screened online from August 17. My proposal, Communal Bloom Strategy brings together a group of dancers with whom I danced or studied in the 1980’s…
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Writing a biography—Yesterday’s Skeleton
As I have mentioned in earlier posts (about my Mind The Gap and Dance Hub SA residencies), I’m working on the bio-pic “Yesterday’s Skeleton.” I’m trawling through my dance history to keep hold of it, to acknowledge the breadth and diversity of it and the community of bodies, my dance kin, that resonate within it.…
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Dance Documentary Screening and Artist Q & A at ReelHeART, Canada
Mel and I will be Skyping in to Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts (Canada) early on Saturday 22nd June after the screening of our documentary “Nothing But Bones in the Way” for a post screening discussion on “Dance, Disability and the Human Condition in the Arts.” This is part of the 15th Annual ReelHeART International…
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“The Moves” —a festival to Move or be Moved
In just over a week I will be presenting an hour-long program of my screendance works, including my hot off the press documentary “Nothing but bones in the way” at the Moonah Arts Centre. The screening is called “Screenbodies—looking beyond the surface” and runs on Saturday 3pm (just before my workshop…see below). I’m also facilitating…
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Flings with Strings
It was a wonderful night at the Abbotsford Convent’s ‘Oratory’ on Wednesday 17 February with special guest cellist Jo Quail. I also screened my latest screendance “Faldinghurst” featuring Gülsen Özer (also featuring the music of Jo Quail). See video documentation of the evening HERE
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Light Moves Screendance Festival
I recently returned from this wonderful event, Ireland’s inaugural Festival of Screendance. Light Moves It was another of many highlights in this busy year of travel and performances. Congratulations to curators Mary Wycherley and Jürgen Simpson, and Dance Limerick’s Jenny Traynor and Lisa Hallinan for such a rich and smooth running program. I was involved in…
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Field Trip
I have just returned from a very full five weeks connecting with international dance and screendance colleagues. First stop was Angers, France for the World Dance Alliance Global Summit (July 6–11). A massive event including a couple of hundred conference papers and performances. I attended some great presentations from Gretchen Schiller, Sarah Whatley, Julia Ritter,…
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Screenings in Glasgow & St Petersburg
Recent and upcoming international screenings of Back & Forth (2000) & A Broken Puzzle (2010) at Glasgow Tramway Arts as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural program see the full program at Tramway and A Beautiful Day (2012) as part of an installation at the Aleksandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, curated by Maria Lukianova. So nice to feel…
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Idill online dance short film competition
My screendance “A Beautiful Day” featuring Melinda Smith with music by Stuart Day has been selected for the 2014 Idill online dance short film competiion. The jury selected 25 films out of over 220 and will award four prizes at the end of June. There is also an audience prize…you can vote for the films you…
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ADF Screendance Anthology
ADF Video and Douglas Rosenberg have just released the next 5 DVDs of the Screendance Anthology, featuring films/videos shown at The International Screendance Festival, presented as part of The American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. I am proud to say that 2 more of my works are included in this collection, Magnificent Sadness (2009)…
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Hipsync Screendance Exhibition
In tandem with my season of Dance Interrogations in the Synergy Gallery’s red train at Ceres, I will be exhibiting my back catalogue of 33 screendance works from 1993 – 2012. The exhibition is open between 1-4pm Wed-Fri in the first 2 weeks of October (2-4 & 9-11). I will be there during those hours…