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THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENTS OF MODERN DANCE AND FILM HOST THE
AMERICAN DEBUT OF DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR
WHAT: DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOP
The University of Utah presents DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR
for the first time in the United States
WHEN: Festival Screenings:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 28 - 30, 8:00 p.m.
Festival Workshop:
Saturday and Sunday, September 29 & 30, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
WHERE: University of Utah Department of Modern Dance
Marriott Center for Dance
Salt Lake City, Utah
COSTS: Screenings: $5.50 each night
2-Day Workshop: $150.00 (Screenings included)
Workshop registration is limited.
CONTACT: ELLEN BROMBERG, Festival Director
Eric Handman, Assistant to the Director
PH (801) 587-9804 or (801) 581-7327
FX (801) 581-5442
www.dance.utah.edu
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The University of Utah's Departments of Modern Dance and
Film, are pleased to announce the United States' debut of DANCE
SCREEN ON TOUR as a part of its Third International Dance for the
Camera Festival and Workshop. Directed by Assistant Professor of
Dance Ellen Bromberg, the festival presents two evenings of
International works in film and video. The first evening will
present Award-winning works from the 2000 International Music
Center's preeminent international dance film competition, DANCE
SCREEN. The second evening will offer another roster of
award-winning international work, and the weekend will conclude with
a final evening of juried student works submitted by students from
around the world. The Festival Workshop will be a two-day intensive
consisting of hands-on shooting, editing and critical analysis, led
by Guest Artist Douglas Rosenberg, Guest Scholar Roger Copeland and
Festival Director Ellen Bromberg.
IMZ/DANCE SCREEN
The International Music Center (Internationales
Musikzentrum), known as IMZ, is based in Vienna and is a global
non-profit association of leading international producers of cultural
and music programs focusing particularly on classical and
contemporary music and dance. DANCE SCREEN , in its eighth year, is
the preeminent competitive international festival and showcase for
dance films and videos. DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR was created in 1999 in
association with SK Culture Foundation of Cologne, to bring dance
films to a wider audience. The University of Utah's Departments of
Modern Dance and Film are pleased to be sponsoring the first American
presentation of DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR.
SEPTEMBER 28TH - DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR
This year's program will feature Director David Hinton's
Dance Screen Festival Award winner, Birds. Through film editing,
music and choreographer's perception, the unrehearsed, natural
movement of birds becomes an exhilarating dance experience.
With a shared award for Best Screen Choreography CAPTIVES 2nd
Movement is a completely virtual dance. Directed and choreographed by
French artists Nicole & Norbert Corsino, this work is cited as "a
digital dramaturgy in which traditional narrative values exist within
an entirely virtual universe."
Also receiving the Best Screen Choreography Award is Moment
from the United Kingdom, directed by Katrina McPherson and
choreographed by Paula Hampson. Dedicated to the memory of dancer and
filmmaker Michele Fox, the significance of a moment is explored as
time is slowed down, stretched, speeded up, repeated and stopped.
From the Netherlands Dance Theater comes Short Cut, directed
by Jellie Dekker and choreographed by Hans van Manen. Canada film
makers Allen Kaeja and Mark Adam Zummel, the sequel to their
previous film, Witnessed, which was screened at last year's Dance for
the Camera Festival in Salt Lake.
Directors Jos de Putter and Clara van Gool were warded Best
Documentary for their film Zikr, named after the dance that has
survived in Chechnya for centuries. This short dance film from the
Netherlands is "a jewel of non-verbal story."
September 29th - DIVERSE WORKS
The second evening of works features A VERY DANGEROUS PASTIME
-a devastatingly simple guide. Directed by award-winning filmmaker
Laura Taler from Grimm Pictures of Canada, this humorous documentary
received the Best of Festival Award at New York City's Dance on
Camera Festival 2001.
2I Etudes a Danser, Directed by Belgium's Thierry De Mey,
merges dancing footage with elements of fiction to create a new way
of telling a story. This film is an original blend of tender
insolence and strict elegance and was the Festival Award-winner at
the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto '99.
From Seattle comes dance theater company 33 Fainting Spells'
first foray from stage to screen, Measure, a 7-minute experimental
work directed by Gaelen Hansen and Dayna Hansen. Produced by the
Audio Visual Center of Amsterdam is director Frank Kresin's Memento
Mori, inspired by the Dance of Death and choreographed by Yusuf
Daniels. Also on the program, from Australia will be In the Heart of
the Eye directed by Margie Medlin. Visceral and visual, this film
interchanges the eye of the dancer with the eye of the camera,
creating an evocative, intimate and sensual journey.
September 20th - The Next Generation: Juried Student Works
For the first time, the Dance for the Camera Festival will be
presenting student works chosen from submissions from around the
world. Selected by a jury of professionals and educators in the
field, this evening provides young film makers and choreographers
with a venue for their work, as well as providing audiences with a
glimpse of the future.
TWO-DAY WORKSHOP
The Festival also offers an opportunity for hands-on
experience and critical dialog for filmmakers, videographers,
choreographers, dancers, visual and performance artists, taught by
Guest Video Artist Douglas Rosenberg, Scholar Roger Copeland, and
Modern Dance Assistant Professor Ellen Bromberg.
Douglas Rosenberg, Assistant Professor in the Interarts and
Technology Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, holds a
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Performance/Video from the San
Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown both in the United
States and internationally in museums, galleries, festivals and
broadcast television. He was the Director of the Video Archival
Program at the American Dance Festival for ten years.
Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin
College and the recipient of the Stagebill Award for the best article
about theater published in the U.S. during l999. He has published
well over one hundred and fifty articles about dance, theater, and
film. Copeland has also worked as a consultant for the National
Endowment for the Arts, the "Dance In America" series on PBS, the
Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, and the eight part
television series "Dancing." He has been awarded fellowships from
the Rockefeller Foundation , The National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Mellon Foundation, and Theatre Communications Group.
Ellen Bromberg, Assistant Professor of Modern Dance at the
University of Utah, has been creating dances for companies and solo
artists for over 25 years. She has received numerous awards and
grants for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Arizona Commission on the Arts and many others. She has created a
number of works for the screen which have been broadcast by KQED TV
in San Francisco, Wisconsin Public Television, and nationally on PBS
Television's "Alive From Off Center."
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Ellen Bromberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Modern Dance
University of Utah
330 S. 1500 E. Rm. 106
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
PH: 801/587-9804
FX: 801/581-5442
e.bromberg@m.cc.utah.edu
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