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Strand, Siobhan Murphy, Michaela Pegum & Dominic Redfern
REELDANCE AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND AWARDS
Program Duration: 58 minutes
The Awards program is a chance for the ReelDance Festival to highlight and celebrate dance on screen activity in our local region. BRAVO to all the 159 works submitted for the 2010 competition.
We invited a judging panel of 5 high profile individuals involved in different aspects of screen based culture, to create a short list program of 10 works and also to choose 3 stand out works from their selected 10.
Judges for 2010:
- Ross Gibson, Professor of Contemporary Arts, The University of Sydney
- Helen Simondson, Manager of Screen Events, Australian Centre for Moving Image
- Shona McCullagh, Award Winning Dance on Screen Artist
- Clare Stewart, Director of Sydney International Film Festival
- Adrian Martin, Senior Lecturer of Film, Monash University
This year, 3 awards were presented - congratulations to our award winning artists!
BEST WORK AWARD
Necessary Games - Sixteen (South Australia, 7 minutes, 2009)
Director: Sophie Hyde
Director/Choreographer: Kat Worth
Performers: Jianna Georgiou, Andrew Pandos, Stuart Scott, Mario Spate
Producer: Bryan Mason & Sophie Hyde (Closer Productions)
RUNNER UP AWARD
Tap Hop: Lesson 1 (New South Wales, 2.30 minutes, 2009)
Director: Soda_Jerk
Producer: Soda_Jerk
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD
Saint Sebastian (Victoria, 4:34 minutes, 2009)
Director/Choreographer: James Welsby
Performers: James Welsby, Benjamin Hancock, Rennie McDougall, Tom Gittings, James Snelling
Producer: James Welsby
Each awarded artist received a prize package for their achievements. The artist awarded Best Work and Runner Up received a custom designed scultpure by artist Mark Reyment (below). Mark's brief for the award trophies was to create sculptures that embraced the coming together of movement and technology.
Mark Reyment originally studied sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts. Running parallel to his art making was his time spent working with cameras and projectors in the Cinephile institutions of Melbourne throughout the 70’s and 80’s such as the Valhalla and the Palace. ReelDance thanks Mark for his love and care in the creation of these trophies.
FINALISTS
Necessary Games - Moths (South Australia, 7 minutes, 2009)
Director: Sophie Hyde
Director/Choreographer: Paul Zivkovich
Performers: Lorcan Hopper & Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart
Producers: Bryan Mason & Sophie Hyde (Closer Productions)
A collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and Closer Productions
Synopsis: Two men collide in a dank night world, drenched with loss and heavy with hope. Who do you see in your dreams?
Saint Sebastian (Victoria, 4:34 minutes, 2009)
Director/Choreographer: James Welsby
Performers: James Welsby, Benjamin Hancock, Rennie McDougall, Tom Gittings, James Snelling
Producer: James Welsby
Synopsis: New video work by James Welsby that explores, through implied violence, the alienation that can face young gay men. As Welsby approached turning 22, thoughts of hate crime victim Matthew Shepherd, who was murdered at 21, haunted him. The title comes from the appropriation of martyr Saint Sebastian as a gay icon, possibly for his athleticism and sacrifice.
Strand (Victoria, 9 minutes, 2008)
Directors: Siobhan Murphy, Michaela Pegum and Dominic Redfern
Performers: Siobhan Murphy and Michaela Pegum
Producers: Siobhan Murphy, Michaela Pegum and Dominic Redfern
Synopsis: On Lake Tyrrell, Victoria’s largest salt lake, two moving figures are engaged in a duet. Tension develops between these women and the unforgiving lake onto which the drama of their internal landscape is projected. Stretching horizons cut against the soft curves and vulnerability of the human form as the minimal sound track amplifies the silence of the salt. Over the arc of a day, these two wilful but disoriented characters pass through a range of responses to the landscape: passing from sublime dissolution to heat stroke, they dramatise historical representations of Europeans in the Australian interior.
Tap Hop: Lesson 1 (New South Wales, 2.30 minutes, 2009)
Director: Soda_Jerk
Producer: Soda_Jerk
Synopsis: Mixing footage from the 1942 musical comedy Pardon My Sarong and the 1986 TV show Graffiti Rock, a dance battle is staged between seminal 1940s tap group Tip Tap and Toe and the 1980s hip-hop crew The New York City Breakers. The cultural matrix between these dance forms emerge through juxtaposition, including the remixed audio track.
Necessary Games - Sixteen (South Australia, 7 minutes, 2009)
Director: Sophie Hyde
Director/Choreographer: Kat Worth
Performers: Jianna Georgiou, Andrew Pandos, Stuart Scott, Mario Spate
Producer: Bryan Mason & Sophie Hyde (Closer Productions)
A collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and Closer Productions
Synopsis: A coming of age game about the joy, nervousness, desire and intimacy of the different kinds of connections a young woman will, did or might have in her life.
Shadow in Blue (Victoria, 3.40 minutes, 2008)
Director: Zoe Scoglio
Performers: Jess Devereux, Melissa Jones
Producer: Zoe Scoglio
Synopsis: Tension and release; body and form; sound and simulation. A collaborative experiment between two dancers, a video maker and sound artist.
Motel Deception (Western Australia, 4:00 minutes, 2009)
Director: Chrissie Parrott
Performers: Richard Cilli & Sally Blachford
Producer: Nancy Jones
Synopsis: Motel Deception is a fast paced physical dance film crammed with parody and caricature. Its about vague promises and innuendo creating a sense of confusion; a sense of the unreal; secret lives, parallel truths.
Tank Man Tango: a Tiananmen Memorial (New South Wales, 5 minutes, 2009)
Director: Deborah Kelly
Choreographer: Jane Mckernan
Instructional Dancer: Teik-Kim Pok
Producers: Deborah Kelly and Fiona Winning
Synopsis: Tank Man Tango is a dance based on the steps of the man who defied the tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square after the massacre of protestors in June 1989. The choreography was made into instructional videos and posted on You Tube in four languages, with an open invitation to participate in this ephemeral monument on 4 June 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the massacre.
Reading the Body (New South Wales, 6 minutes, 2009)
Director/Choreographer: Sue Healey
Performer: Rachelle Hickson
Producer: Sue Healey
Synopsis: Inspired by the concept of ‘bones’, the animation was created in response to a choreographed work by dancer, Sue Healey.
Necessary Games - Necessity (South Australia, 8 minutes, 2009)
Director: Sophie Hyde
Director/Choreographer: Tuula Roppola,
Performers: Dana Nance & Kyra Kimpton
Producers: Bryan Mason & Sophie Hyde (Closer Productions)
A collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and Closer Productions
Synopsis: A game between two girls eternally bound together as they trace their lives onto the walls of their room and try to get below the surface.
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