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10th Anniversary Conference
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Dance media: an active spectrum
10th Anniversary All day conference
June 17, 2011 1 - 10PM
Due to limited seating, the Conference Contributor Membership is highly recommended. Members at this level of giving will receive a guaranteed priority seat all day at the conference, free dinner, and a hosted bar preceding the outdoor screening.
1:00 - 6:30PM Dance Media: An Active Spectrum Conference, Glorya Kaufman Hall, UCLA
Dance Camera West’s special anniversary conference program looks at transmedia storytelling, the artist’s process of creation, how international communities are approaching the genre, strategies for getting work funded, and tapping into larger audiences. The day will bring together artists, dancers, educators, and innovators, along with creative and business professionals from the television and film industries who recognize the power of performance, media and culture. Why are we making this work and who is going to see it?
Welcome / Introduction
Executive / Artistic Director Lynette Kessler
1:00 – 2:00PM How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
After All, It’s Not “Dance"Drawing on the history of avant-garde filmmaking and traversing varied cultural landscapes and political milieus, Aparna Sharma (UCLA) presents a visual program featuring work from Europe, South America, and South Asia. Sharma will unpack “dance-on-camera” as an evolving medium that goes beyond a merely technical or ornamental practice and address the idea that dance film has the capacity to actually say something.
…And Then Came the BBC
For thirty years Bob Lockyer revolutionized dance media, launching the art form and bringing it to public audiences on the BBC. Gitta Wigro (Arts Council England) will discuss the state of dance media in the UK today and the Arts Council’s recent partnership with the BBC, an initiative to maximize the creation and distribution of high quality arts content for audiences on digital platforms, including online, mobile and internet protocol television.
EMPAC: That Was Then, This Is Now!
Experimental Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) provides the first commission funding in the US for dance media in 25 years. Hélène Lesterlin (EMPAC) shows excerpts of recent commissions and discusses the impact of funding on the art form, allowing the visual art world and dance world to collide and turning cinematic structure it on its head.
2:15 – 3:30PM Case Studies: Hearing From Artists
Examining Content
From the narrative to the conceptual, how do we construct meaning? Victoria Marks (UCLA) and Mitchell Rose (CalArts) discuss the relationship between camera and subject, how movement is used, the importance of preproduction, and creating a cinematic arc.
Capturing the Essence: Researching Dance Through the Documentary Form
Ellen Bromberg (University of Utah) considers how to capture the ephemeral, discussing and showing excerpts of her documentary on experimental choreographer Deborah Hay.
The Art of the Edit: Post Production As Choreography
Cari Ann Shim Sham (UCLA Lecturer) talks about her first love, editing. Fresh from Cannes, where her film Sand received several distribution and broadcast deals, she will also share her POV as an artist on making deals.
Staying in Business
Montreal-based producers and directors Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar (Mouvement Perpétuel) talk about building a lasting production company over ten years and related funding challenges and opportunities.
3:45 – 4:45PM Global Perspectives
What's Going On South of the Border?
Silvina Szperling (VideoDanzaBA, Argentina) and Regina Levy (Dança em Foco, Brazil) come straight from the fourth Forum Latinoamericano de Videodanza to give a full report on the infrastructure created throughout Latin America for dance media, including the ongoing political action to raise visibility for the art form.
Beyond Amsterdam
Janine Dijkmeijer (Cinedans, Netherlands) speaks about the global reach of Cinedans and its position in Europe and countries like China, South Africa, Lebanon, and Russia. What are the reoccurring issues across borders, cultures, and makers and what are their similarities and differences?
Screening (12 min)
Point Taken is a cross-disciplinary dance film project initiated by the Dutch Mediafund and the Performing Arts Fund NL with Dutch broadcaster NTR and Cinedans, produced by KeyFilm.
How can dance media makers learn from the film world? Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens (Netherlands) speak from a filmmakers perspective about what needs to happen for choreographers to translate their work to film.
5:00 – 6:00PM Your Work Just Screened At A Few Festivals…Now What?
Multiplatform Distribution: The New Gatekeepers
In an era of rapid change, where new technologies and devices are released into the market on a seemingly daily basis, TenduTV Founder Marc Kirschner discusses the challenges of multiplatform distribution, and what dance filmmakers need to know to take advantage of the large and quality audience reach that digital delivery can provide.
Getting Dance on Screen
Judy Flannery (Television Arts Producer, Media Consultant San Francisco Ballet) discusses lining up major broadcasters for a large-scale company production, piecing together a quilt-work of funding sources, and how the field can create strategy to move beyond filming traditionally staged work into the realm of the site-specific.
Going Mainstream
From the perspective of a film industry professional, Jeremy Barber (Partner, United Talent Agency) discusses how independent filmmakers and traditionally marginalized genres have made their way into the mainstream, and the effective approaches dance media makers can use to present their work to broad audiences.
6:30 - 7:30PM Dinner, UCLA Fowler Museum Courtyard
Dinner for conference attendees. Free to festival presenters, invited guests, Conference Contributor Members, and DCW Membership Pass holders. Dinner available for conference attendees with a suggested donation to Dance Camera West. To make a dinner reservation, please email festival@dancecamerawest.org
7:30PM Members Reception, UCLA Fowler Museum Courtyard
Hosted bar for festival presenters, invited guests, Conference Contributor Members, and DCW Membership Pass holders. Open to all DCW members and Fowler Museum members.
8:00PM Global Screendance 2, UCLA Fowler Museum Amphitheater
This event is free and open to the public. Outdoor grass seating. Please bring a blanket or mat to sit on.
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Stronger 2010 UK 4’ Director: Wilkie Branson Choreographer: Wilkie Branson and Joel Daniel |
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New London Calling 2010 USA 10’ [West Coast Premiere] Director: Alla Kovgan Choreographer: Alissa Cardone & Ingrid Schatz An unsupervised group of 75 children take over the entire city of New London, creating rites and rituals through playing street games. |
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Hoop 2010 Canada 5’ Director: Marites Carino Choreographer: Rebecca Halls Photographer: Donald Robitalle |
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Red Shoes 2009 Canada 10’ Director: Micah Meisner Choreographer: Anne Plamondon and Victor Quijada A modern, gritty adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, using the old gothic tale as a basis to explore psychological possession and self-deception. |
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Box 2010 Canada 5’ [West Coast Premiere] Director: Ivan Rubio Choreographer: Gabrielle Martin The duet expresses control through manipulation, surrender through being manipulated, and resistance through contact and partner work. |
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To Fly or Fall 2009 Canada 7’ Director: Kathi Prosser Choreographer: William Young A couple meet on the rooftop of a skyscraper. Will they fly or will they fall? |
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At Lunch Time: A Story of Love 2010 Canada 7’ Director: Brad Dryborough Choreographer: Melissa Robertson Produced by Bravo! FACT |
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Together: Dancing with Spinner Dolphins 2010 USA 4’ Director: Chisa Hadaka Choreographer: Chisa Hidaka & wild spinner dolphins Set in the open waters of the Pacific Ocean, this experimental, non-fiction short film illustrates the tender relationships forged between a human and wild Spinner Dolphin through the language of dance. |
All festival events are FREE and open to the public. Guaranteed seating through special Conference Contributor Membership or DCW Membership Pass is highly recommended.
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Glorya Kaufman Hall, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
UCLA Fowler Museum
North Campus, UCLA. Enter Parking Lot Structure 4 entrance at the intersection of Sunset Blvd and Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
