We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all the artists, audience members, and presenting partners for celebrating Dance Camera West’s 10th Anniversary with us. Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Dance Camera West Festival Awards!
Dance Camera West Best Screendance Short:
There is a Place
Dance Camera West Best of Festival:
The Co(te)lette Film
Dance Camera West Audience Choice Award:
In Dreams I Run Wild
Dance Camera West Best Documentary:
Never Stand Still
“Leaving Las Vegas” director Mike Figgis Debuts Erotically Charged Dance Film
Saturday, June 18 in Los Angeles
6/16/2011 by Degen Pener
In Mike Figgis’ new movie, The Co(te)lette Film, three female dancers wag their hips while on all fours, grind against each other and suggestively spread their legs while stone-faced men surrounding a stage look on intently. The emotionally freighted piece — which explores issues of desire, sensuality, female objectification and the search for satisfaction — will have its U.S. premiere at the Dance Camera West film fest this weekend on Saturday June 18 at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. Read the full article here>
Friday, June 17, will be an action-packed day! Our first-ever conference program is a fantastic opportunity to join an international group of world-renowned artists, dancers, educators, and innovators, along with creative and business professionals from the television and film industries.
The all-day conference, followed by a dinner, reception and screenings will be intimate, giving access to the dance media luminaries speaking and attending. It will be held at the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (Glorya Kaufman Hall).
Come spend a day with 25 internationally known dance media experts and change the way you look 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.
Due to high ticket demand, the Conference Contributor Membership is highly recommended. Members at this level will receive guaranteed priority seating at the conference, free dinner, and a hosted bar preceding the outdoor screening.
Never Stand Still will have its west coast premiere at the 2011 Dance Camera West dance media film festival. It screens, Sunday June 19, 2:15–3:30PM at the Hammer Museum as part of the Iconic Figures in Dance: Documentary Series.
Never Stand Still explores why dance matters to those who make it and those who watch it. The documentary reveals the remarkable story of how an abandoned Massachusetts farm evolved into a focal point for dance throughout the world. Its unlikely purchase by choreographer Ted Shawn during the Great Depression allowed this secluded site in the Berkshires to become the internationally renowned Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Through candid conversations with world-class choreographers and dancers, thrilling performances, backstage access and rare archival footage, “Never Stand Still” immerses the viewer in this most ephemeral of art forms, celebrating not only its value to our culture, but also to our lives. Featuring Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Rasta Thomas (Bad Boys of Dance), Nikolaj Hubbe (Royal Danish Ballet artistic director), Judith Jamison, Gideo Obarzanek of Chunky Move) among others. [Director: Ron Honsa, U.S.A. 2011 74']
Introduction by Director Ron Honsa
The west coast premiere of Body of War will be presented as part of the Dance Camera West 2011 dance media film festival opening night at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Watch the trailer for this film set in the Normandy Landing geography, and punctuated by testimonies of serving soldiers, a visceral hand-to-hand combat is gradually deconstructed.
Body of War 2010 Spain/UK 20′
[West Coast Premiere]
Director: Isabel Rocamora
Choreographer: Isabel Rocamora and Nick Maison
DCW is presenting three different programs of Global Screendance in the June festival. What is screendance?
“Since the early 20th century, artists from the fields of dance and the moving image have been developing a hybrid practice, now commonly referred to as screendance.” (1)
Today, this hybrid genre has thrown a “wide net that includes dance, performance, visual art, cinema, and media arts.” (2)
“Screendance is a provocation. It encourages exploration into the unknown and in turn the discovery of possibility. For both the maker and audience, the fun is the adventure of discovering what the coming together of dance and screen could be.” (3)
Screendance can be described as diverse, global, emergent, alive, active, trans-media, continually evolving.
“The hybrid screendance medium is varied, encompassing a broad range of cinematic styles, exhibition formats, and subject matters traversing global perspectives,” says Dance Camera West founder and director, Lynette Kessler, “Screendance is an active spectrum ranging from surreal visual abstractions to strict narratives.”
“Screendance is pushing art in a new direction,” says Kessler, “as choreographers and directors continue to fuel innovation and impact the way we perceive art and life – dance media is a new visual language for our time.”
(1) Screendance Network, Center for Research & Development, University of Brighton, UK
(2) International Screendance Journal
(3) Reel Dance International Dance on Screen Festival, Australia
A slideshow of gorgeous photos from Dance Camera West’s 10th Anniversary Festival lineup.
DCW wants to know – which film are YOU most excited to see?
Professor Ellen Bromberg
Dance Media, Modern Dance Department, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Leonel Brum
Co-director, Danca em Foco
São Paulo, Brasil
Paulo Caldas
Co-director, Danca em Foco
São Paulo, Brasil
Janine Dijkmeijer
Director and Curator, Cinedans Moving Media Festival
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marc Kirschner
Founder, TenduTV
New York, NY
Hélène Lesterlin
Curator, Dance, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center [EMPAC]
Troy, NY
Professor Victoria Marks
Choreographer, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Helena Muskens and Quirine Racke
Artists/Filmmakers
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mitchell Rose
Dance for Camera, Advanced Video Editing, California Institute for the Arts (CalArts)
Valencia, CA
Aparna Sharma, Ph.D.
Filmmaker, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Cari Ann Shim Sham
Artist Filmmaker
Los Angeles, CA
Silvina Szperling
Director of VideoDanza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gitta Wigro
Dance, Arts Council England
London, United Kingdom
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.
7:30PM Member’s Reception, UCLA Fowler Museum Courtyard
Hosted bar for festival presenters, invited guests, Conference Contributor Members, and DCW Membership Pass holders, DCW Members, and Fowler Museum Members.
8-10PM Screendance Shorts 2, UCLA Fowler Museum Amphitheater [Program TBA]
This event is free and open to the public. Outdoor grass seating. Please do not bring lawn chairs.
Donation cash bar will reopen after the screenings.
Celebrated dancers, choreographers and directors from around the globe–such as Gitta Wigro from Dance at Arts Council England; Helene Lesterlin of Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in New York and members of the Forum Latino Americana de Video Danza from Brazil and Argentina will attend this year’s “Dance Media: An Active Spectrum” as part of Dance Camera West’s 10th annual Dance Media Festival & Conference.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR TODAY FOR DCW’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
JUNE 16
Opening Night Screenings and Celebration at The Getty Center
JUNE 17
Dance Media: Active Spectrum Conference – International presenters
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Dinner for conference attendees
Outdoor screening at the UCLA Fowler Museum Amphitheater
JUNE 18 and 19
Screenings and Special Events at The Hammer Museum
Director’s Round Table
Receptions
Artists Luncheon
All festival events are free and open to the public, although seating is limited. Guaranteed seating through the special Dance Camera West Membership Pass is highly recommended.
ACCOMMODATIONS AND TRAVEL
We have arranged a special rate with Hotel Palomar Los Angeles-Westwood for our out-of-town conference attendees. Phne number for Hotel Palomar reservations 424-901-7270. Request the Dance Camera West corporate rate.
Hi DCW aficionados,
A few things worth mentioning as we enter the last phase of our DCW film festival.
Friday night there’s a special offer for the Choreography Media Honors Panel, 1 ticket for the price of 2 for all dance students. It’s all over our DCW FB pages, please check it out. Please also note that in order to go to that event you need to PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE.
Moving on… Sat is TANGO night for all. Bring your family, bring everyone. Wear your tango gear, bring a picnic and a blanket for the grass. The Green Truck will be on site. FREE Outdoor Event with Community Tango followed by screening of Latin American dance films from Cuba, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. 7 to 1030 pm at Braude Center Plaza 6262 Van Nuys Blvd.
Check out the trailer for the films here:
Finally, we end our festival with a very special event at the Autry on Sunday at 2pm. Two documentaries with First Nation Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider and Native American Jock Soto in Water Flowing Together, featuring openly gay artists exploring their heritage and future followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Philip Szporer. $10, $7 for DCW members
Please be sure to check us out,
I’ll be sending updates after the film festival, with one particular issue I’d like to share with you after the Q&A we had after the screening of the film “Veterans”.
Don’t be late! and definitely don’t miss our final weekend.
PS we will have a final wrap party June 26 –more to come…
Yours truly,
Marguerite
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