At 21:12 20/10/00 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Deveril: > > >I agree with Kent, let's hear more. Is the website already up? > >Do I hear, between the lines, a reference to the Danish Dogma >filmmakers, dancing in the dark? so you will be filming only by natural >light? > > > >Johannes Birringer > Hi! The website is under construction and should be up soon - if the designers haven't already sneaked it up without my knowing! I'll let you have the URL asap. Yes - no hidden reference. One of the initial ideas was to propose a Dogme 95 (anti-)style manifesto, with similar kinds of rules for making dance films in a certain way. But we found that it was in some respects too restrictive. I am interested in working within restrictions and with limitations, but the emphasis we wanted was to be more about freeing the dance film maker and assisting the creativity in such artists, most importantly by getting work made with whatever facilities could be begged, borrowed and stolen(!), and shown and discussed. We felt that many funding opportunities were closed to certain kinds of film, and that dance itself is being pushed further out of the criteria. Obviously this raises questions about what dance is, and issues along those lines, and this is something that we have been trying to re-configure (I won't say re-define). It seemed to us that many dance films were being made that to us weren't dance films at all - despite our having the widest, most diverse complex idea of what dance is. It's a can of worms - we know - but we want to side-step certain given notions and organisations and bring the body back into dance films. I'll not go on any longer. Thanks for all of your responses. I've answered to some personally, but thought I'd share this one with the list. Deveril xxx ************************ Deveril Dance Dept. University of Surrey Guildford GU2 5XH Home Tel.:01483 232646 "In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out." Anne Frank, July 15th 1944 ************************
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