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Labs & Workshops
Labs & Workshops
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David Hinton Dance Screen Laboratory 2008 |
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in partnership with Critical Path
The Drill Hall, Rushcutter’s Bay NSW
3-14 November 2008
Following from the success of the 2006 Thierry de Mey workshop, ReelDance and Critical Path are offering dance screen practitioners the opportunty to work with a high profile director. This year we have invited David Hinton to lead the International Screen Dance Laboratory. The laboratory is by invitation and will include filmmakers, choreographer/filmmakers and visual artists working with dance, film and video. The projects brought to the laboratory can be diverse and include installation, experimental film, narrative shorts to documentaries.
David Hinton is one of the most celebrated directors working in dance film today. He has worked with some of the best known names in contemporary dance including DV8 Physical Theatre, Siobhan Davies, Wendy Houston and Russell Maliphant. His films have won numerous awards including a BAFTA for his documentary Bernardo Bertolucci and the Last Emperor. His dance films have won many awards, including a Prix Italia and a Grand Prix International Video Danse for Strange Fish (1994). He is also a founder of Dance Film Academy in London.
More information, including application details will be posted closer to the workshop date.
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Thierry De Mey Dance Screen Laboratory 2006 |
in partnership with Critical Path
The Drill Hall, Rushcutter’s Bay NSW
25 September – 6 October 2006
A collaboration between Critical Path, Sydney’s choreographic research and development centre, and ReelDance, this creative laboratory intensive put together guest international filmmaker Thierry De Mey and 10 NSW-based dance filmmakers and installation artists. Highly acclaimed Belgian dance filmmaker, composer and percussionist, Thierry de Mey, has had intensive collaborations with a variety of dance practitioners including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Michèle Anne de Mey, Sylvie Guilliam, Akram Khan and Charleroi/Dances.
Participants were asked to develop a proposal for a dancefilm, installation or other screen/choreographic project that was a new idea in embryonic state. The lab was not about creating the work itself, but an opportunity to explore ideas and receive advice from peers, programmers, producers and mentors. The aim was to discover new approaches to the question of choreography and the moving image.
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University of NSW, Theatre, Film and Dance Department, Kensington Campus
30 November – 6 December 2003
Facilitated by Miranda Pennell
In response to the 2002 festival, the ReelDance team felt that there was the need for a different kind of workshop - an intense engagement with a particular director who could constructively challenge a selection of local dance/film artists who were at an experienced place in their careers.
Modelled on the first, highly successful ReelDance Workshop held at the University of NSW in November 2001, this new workshop offered a selection of experienced dance filmmakers access to one of the world's most interesting and well respected contemporary dance film directors - Miranda Pennell, who has extensive experience not only as a director of dance film but also as a workshop facilitator.
Participants were selected from an open application process, and worked with Miranda Pennell in a structured workshop with a professional team of technicians using the latest equipment in their exploration of the relationships between choreographic practices and the particular idiosyncrasies of film.
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University of NSW, Theatre, Film and Dance Department, Kensington Campus
19 - 30 November 2001
This two-week intensive held at the University of NSW offered dance artists with little experience behind a camera the chance to develop some basic skills with the help of experienced filmmakers. It also provided those already working in the field - as choreographers, directors, cinematographers, editors, composers or designers - the space and time to collaborate and experiment while stimulating debate on the art and craft of making dance film with a series of lectures on the history, theory and practicalities of the art form.
The Seminar Series consisted of a two-hour presentation or two one-hour presentations each morning for a week, delivered by experienced artists, practitioners and academics who each examined a range of theoretical and practical issues to do with making dance on screen.
The Video Production Skills workshop consisted of 5 x 4hr sessions on the afternoons of Week 1. These skills workshops introduced novice dance/video makers to basic video skills in the context of creating dance on screen. The instructors for this series - Michelle Mahrer, Sherridan Green and Samuel James - are respected dance filmmakers who have a wide and varied experience of making documentaries, short dance films and multimedia events with dancers and choreographers.
Admission to the Advanced Workshop was by invitation and application, with the 15 available places being filled by experienced choreographers, directors, dancers, cinematographers, designers and film technicians. The two-week Advanced Workshop was facilitated by Mahalya Middlemist and Margie Medlin.
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