The Annual Shorts Program will feature clever, poetic, and animated dance videos from around the world. The program will preview Everywhere, an online video project by Philadelphia-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace and award-winning shorts from the Dance On Camera Festival 2010 at Lincoln Center in New York.
Now in its 9th year, Motion Pictures explores
how film and video serve as a natural collaborative medium for dance,
highlighting the power of image and motion in both. The festival features
experimental and innovative shorts, documentaries, “moc”umentaries, and
animations.
Everywhere
Kate Watson-Wallace
The shorts program will also preview Everywhere by
local choreographer Kate
Watson-Wallace. Everywhere is an online dance experience with two main components: a virtual dance
contest which takes place on the internet via the video sharing website Vimeo, and a new dance work that will be created in collaboration with the online
audience. For Motion Pictures, Watson-Wallace will be on hand to discuss the
project’s concept, demonstrate the website, and preview preliminary video
entries. The project will have a home base, the Everywhere website, in which audiences can learn about the dance
contest, vote for their favorite dances, see winning dances, and contribute to
choreographing a dance, which they can watch develop through video postings on
the site. Visit www.everywhereproject.org for updates.
Shorts from the Dance On Camera
Festival 2010
Little Ease [outside the box] – Nominated for Jury Prize for Best Short
Ami Ipapo and Matt Tarr, USA, 2008; 7m
A new take on a classic piece of
choreography conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb.
Through the use of the camera, we remove obstacles to the conversation between
performer, environment and witness, taking this inspiring and athletic movement
out of its typical context. Preview the film online here, http://www.vimeo.com/2070106
The Last Martini – Nominated
for Jury Prize for Best Short
Vickie
Mendoza, USA, 2009; 7m
Inspired by the noir films of the
1940s and 1950s and the posters that publicized them, The Last Martini plays
out the rain-soaked reverie of a man whose psyche becomes tangled in a broken
dance of passion and heartbreak.
Sunscreen Serenade – Nominated
for Jury Prize for Best Short
Kriota
Willberg, USA, 2009; 6m
Sunscreen Serenade
pays homage to great dance film techniques of the 1930’s, translating the
Hollywood soundstage to a “microfilm” video environment. This innovative homage to Busby Berkeley celebrates the
merits of skin protection. Commissioned by EMPAC DANCE MOViES 2008.
Entanglement Theory
Richard
James Allen, Karen Pearlman and Gary Hayes, Australia, 2009: 10M
A busy dancing man takes a nap in
two realities. His live self dreams and his avatar self dreams. Neither reality
is quite so simple when they wake.
CINÉTICA – Jury Winner Prize
for Best Short
Ana
Cembrero, Spain, 2008; 25m
A woman inhabits, searches, dances, fights, and plays without separating what
is lived from what is dreamed.
Motion Pictures is presented in partnership with
“Dance with Camera,” an exhibition now on view at the Institute of Contemporary
Art at the University of Pennsylvania (www.icaphila.org), Film @ International House, and the Dance Film
Association’s Touring Partners Program. Kate Watson-Wallace’s Everywhere is
made possible by a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through
Dance Advance.