ReelDance is a non-profit arts organization supporting innovative creative practice that works across disciplinary boundaries at the cutting edge of dance, film and new media art.
We aim to provide a forum for dance screen culture, developing and defining this artistic field of practice in Australia and New Zealand and promoting local work both nationally and internationally.
Our flagship event is the biennial ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival and its allied tour across Australia and New Zealand. Our other activities include workshops and forums, exhibitions, and casual screenings through the Cinemoves project.
ReelDance is the Australian representative within the international Media and Dance network (MAD ) of dance screen organizations.
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History
ReelDance began as an initiative of the One Extra Company in 1999. Our first event was the very first ReelDance Festival in 2000. Over the years we have expanded our activities to include professional development through workshops and forums, we developed distribution opportunities for Australian filmmakers, the ReelDance Festival became biennial with an every-growing tour schedule, and we began to curate work for exhibitions, screenings and other festivals. The interest and support we have received from programmers both here and overseas highlights the profile we have developed as a point of contact for the form in Australia.
In 2008 , after 8 years of being a project of One Extra and then Performance Space, ReelDance became an Incorporated Association in New South Wales.
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