Opinions - March 2007

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Chirstinn Whyte reviews last year's Dance on Screen in London at Realtime http://www.realtimearts.net/. Click on dance link.

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Introducing the proceedings of the ADF Screendance State of the Art Conference. available here as with all the texts on this site this document is copyrighted and all rights are reserved.

Doug Rosenberg writes in an extract from his introduction to the conference and publication: -

"It is my contention that for screen dance to realize its potential to contribute to a larger cultural discourse, it and by extension, we, must begin to project the practice into a more critical and theoretical framework. Contemporary screendance straddles a thin line between extending the metaphors of dance art into a new hybrid form and fetishizing dance and the bodies which one frames within the purview of the camera. Without the kind of critique I have described, from both within the community as well as from outside sources, screendance might remain a spectacular adjunct to theater dance, prized more for its entertainment value than for its contribution to art and culture. The geneses for many works that will be seen and discussed here are created for television broadcast. Television frames content in a very particular way. Yet that same work is often viewed in entirely different contexts including galleries, festivals and others venues that re-contextualize the viewing paradigm. It seems only appropriate to ponder how that work circulates as culture within a discursive frame. This kind of close reading of both the work and its presentation ultimately allows for a deeper understanding of the work and by extension its relationship to the culture that both produces it and consumes it."

July 2006

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A dance of definitions
Karen Pearlman at Screendance in the USA

What do you call it—dancefilm, dance on camera, video dance, dance on screen...? Whatever it is, it was the topic of the first Screendance, State of the Art Conference held at the American Dance Festival (ADF) in Durham, North Carolina.

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A review of Tracey Mitchells 'Whole Heart' by Bob Lockyer. July 2006

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From Portland Green

"A Space for Dance?, a piece I have written about the Capture Installations
Tour 2004/5 appears in Dance Theatre Journal VOLUME 21 ISSUE 2 2005. This
piece hopefully functions as a piece of critical writing as well as a media
placement for the tour, which I believe is essential to the development of
new practices. This is the final media placement for the CIT 2004/5 and
brings the total to 43.

Helena Blaker has also given us permission to offer the full version of her
CIT 2004/5 catalogue essay - " A Dialogue between Disciplines" as a download
from the PortlandGreen web site so that will also be available shortly.
Copies of the catalogue are still available.

www.portlandgreen.com

Alla Kovgan,
International Director and Curator
KINODANCE, St. Petersburg report on her activities in Russia and Armenia. Well worth a read.

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Conference reports 2006

video dance forum: Conference Reports distributed by Capture (no.1) by Katrina McPherson

video dance forum: Conference Reports distributed by Capture (no.2) by Bob Lockyer

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3 links to Doug Fox's excellent Great Dance blog

Dance and the 99 Cent Video

an article of some insight and a view that we have often pointed out those stuck on trying to distribute work on DVD and tape.

Adding Art Commentary to Videos

If you are going to make a DVD then think about this.

dance_on_film

blog archives relating to video dance

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Elliot Caplan Interview