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<smaller>WHAT: DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOP
WHEN: Festival Screenings:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 28 - 30, 8:00 p.m.
Festival Workshop:
Friday through Sunday, September 29 -October 1, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
WHERE: University of Utah Department of Modern Dance
Marriott Center for Dance
Salt Lake City, Utah
Screenings: The Hayes-Christensen Theater
Workshop: Marriott Center for Dance
COSTS: Screenings: $5.50 each night
3-Day Workshop: $50.00
Workshop registration is limited.
CONTACT: ELLEN BROMBERG, Festival Director
Amanda Goldman, Assistant to the Director
PH (801) 581-7327
FX (801) 581-5442
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</bold><smaller>The University of Utah Department of Modern Dance and
the Department of Film, are pleased to announce the second
International Dance for the Camera Festival and Workshop. Curated by
Associate Professor of Dance Ellen Bromberg, the festival presents
three nights of screenings of historic and contemporary works in film
and video from across the US, England, France, New Zealand and Canada.
Featured will be six works commissioned by the BBC and the Arts Council
of England. The Festival Workshop will be a three-day intensive
consisting of hands-on shooting, editing and discussion, led by Guest
Artists Douglas Rosenberg, Brian Patrick and Festival Director Ellen
Bromberg.
<bold> FIRST EVENING - September 28th
"A DEDICATION TO ANNA SOKOLOW"
</bold>This evening is dedicated to the work and memory of
choreographer <bold>Anna Sokolow</bold>, who died earlier this year.
Sokolow contributed to the world of modern dance for nearly seven
decades. Her renegade spirit and ground breaking choreography has and
will continue to influence generations of artists and dance
enthusiasts. The classic film of Sokolow's signature work
<bold>"Rooms"</bold> will be screened, along with<bold> Shirley
Clarke's</bold> film of Sokolow's <bold>"Moment in Love". </bold>Set to
the music of Kenyon Hopkins and produced by <bold>WNET
Television</bold>, "Rooms" depicts the loneliness and alienation of
modern man, and is considered an enduring masterpiece of
twentieth-century art. In Sokolow's "Moment in Love," performed by
Carmela Gutierrez and Paul Sanasardo, Ms. Clarke utilizes inventive
film techniques to further the expression of romantic love, poetically
captured in Sokolow's choreography. The screening will be followed by a
discussion and an opening night reception.
<bold>SECOND EVENING - September 29th
"IMAGES OF MEN DANCING"
</bold>From the poetic to the aggressive, from the idiosyncratic to the
humorous, this evening offers a unique and multidimensional look at the
representation of dancing men on-screen. Included in this evening is
an award-winning work commissioned by the<bold> BBC </bold>and<bold>
the Arts Council of England. </bold>Directed by British Director<bold>
Margaret Williams </bold>and choreographed by American
Choreographer<bold> Victoria Marks ,"Men" </bold>is performed by 7
elderly men living in Canmore, Alberta. This enigmatic, 20-minute
dance made for the camera, received the IMZ International Dance/Film
Festival Grand Prix and Best Screen Choreography Award 1999, and the
Toronto award for "Best Screen Choreography" in 1998.
Also included in this evening from New Zealand is Director<bold> Chris
Graves' "Elegy."</bold> One of new Zealand's most well-known
contemporary dancers/choreographers <bold>Douglas Wright</bold>,
choreographed <bold>"Elegy"</bold> as a tribute to three people who
died of AIDS. This work received the Best Stage and Studio Recording
Award at IMZ Dance Screen in 1993.
Returning from last year are three works. From France is <bold>Daniel
Larrieu's</bold> hauntingly beautiful work <bold>"Emmy,"</bold> and
from Canada are <bold>Laura Taler's</bold> idiosyncratic <bold>"The
Barber's Coffee Break" </bold>and<bold> Kevin Cotham's "Tantalus."
</bold>Also from the BBC and the Arts Council of England are
<bold>"Boy"</bold> by <bold>Peter Anderson</bold> and <bold>Rosemary
Lee</bold>, "<bold>Man Act,"</bold> by <bold>Michael Stubbs</bold>,
<bold>, "Hands,"</bold> by <bold>Jonathon Burrows</bold> and <bold>Adam
Roberts, </bold>and from the U.S. is<bold> "Bruce,"</bold> by
<bold>Ruth Sergel</bold> and <bold>Bruce Jackson
THIRD EVENING - September 30th
"DIVERSE WORKS"
</bold>The third and final evening combines historic and contemporary
works for the screen. In 1968, Canadian Director <bold>Norman
McLaren</bold> created <bold>"Pas de Deux,"</bold> an experimental work
that is rarely seen. By exposing the same frames as many as ten times,
the artist creates a multiple image of the ballerina <bold>Margaret
Mercier</bold>, and her partner <bold>Vincent Warren. </bold>This is a
landmark work that has received numerous international awards and an
Oscar nomination.
Also on this program is <bold>Pooh Kaye's</bold> hilarious film,
<bold>"Wake-Up Call,"</bold> which was created through the painstaking
process of single cell animation. Called "a little gem" by The Boston
Globe,"Wake Up Call" is about a woman who has the world's worst time
getting out of bed in the morning. It has received numerous awards and
The New York Times selected it as a 1989 Best of the Year pick.
Guest Artist <bold>Douglas Rosenberg</bold> brings his new work
<bold>"Periphery." </bold>Danced by <bold>Li Chiao-Ping</bold> and shot
and directed by Rosenberg, the "choreography" by <bold>Gus Solomons
Jr</bold>. has been entirely deconstructed and remade for the space of
the camera. The piece premiered at the Riccione TTV International
Video Festival in June, 2000.
Also on the final evening, from Canada are <bold>"Witnessed"</bold> by
<bold>Allen Kaeja</bold> and <bold>Mark Adam</bold>, and <bold>"Eterne
Sangui"</bold> by <bold>Sven Johansson</bold>; from England is
<bold>"Echo"</bold> by <bold>Mark Baldwin</bold> and <bold>Ross
MacGibbon</bold>; and from the U.S. are <bold>"A Sun Dance"</bold> by
<bold>Dikayl</bold>, <bold>"Little Lieutenant"</bold> by <bold>Henry
Hills</bold> and <bold>Sally Silvers</bold>, <bold>"Office
Furniture"</bold> by <bold>Rebecca Salzer</bold>, and
"<bold>Synchro"</bold> by <bold>Eric Koziol</bold>.
<bold>THREE-DAY WORKSHOP
</bold>The Festival also offers an opportunity for hands-on experience
to filmmakers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists
and others, taught by <bold>Guest Video Artist Douglas Rosenberg, Film
Department Chair Professor Brian Patrick, </bold>and <bold>Modern Dance
Associate Professor Ellen Bromberg</bold>.
<bold>Douglas Rosenberg, </bold>Assistant Professor in the Interarts
and Technology Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison<bold>,
</bold>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.
<bold>Brian Patrick,</bold> Chair of the University of Utah Film
Department, has been producing films and videos for over 30 years,
several of which have won major festival awards and have seen national
television distribution. He has taught film/video production at five
universities including the University of Utah for over 20 years.
<bold>Ellen Bromberg</bold>, Associate 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 and has created a number of works for the camera 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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