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The University of Utah Departments of Modern Dance and Gender Studies
Host the 4th Annual Dance for the Camera Festival and Symposium:
The Projected Self: Bodies, Genders and Dance on Screen
The University of Utah's Departments of Modern Dance and
Gender Studies are pleased to announce their collaboration in
presenting The Projected Self: Bodies, Genders and Dance on Screen.
Directed by Assistant Professor of Dance Ellen Bromberg, the festival
and symposium offers two days of presentations, discussions and
hands-on workshops with guests Ann Daly- Keynote Speaker, Naomi
Jackson, Victoria Marks, Esther Rashkin and Douglas Rosenberg (see
biographies below). The weekend also presents three evening
screenings of international dance works in film and video.
Ann Daly's keynote speech will address the question: "Behind
the Camera: Whose Gaze Is It?" Using excerpts from the festival's
films and videos, Dr. Daly will explore the theoretical premises and
political implications of dance on film and video. How do the camera
and screen collaborate in presenting the projected self? Whose self
is being projected? Dr. Daly will also act as respondent and
facilitator for the other symposium presentations.
Choreographer and Dance/Filmmaker Victoria Marks, will
present a full evening of her award-winning work. In her Symposium
presentation Ms. Marks will discuss issues of gender representation
in her collaborative work with filmmaker Margaret Williams, as well
as show a documentary on the creation of their film Men. She will
also screen and discuss the making of Outside In.
Dance scholar and author Naomi Jackson joins with literary,
film and cultural theorist Esther Rashkin for the panel: Dance in
Popular Media: Ballerinas, Cyborgs and the Desire to be Human. From
Coppelia to The Matrix, from Big Bertha to Petrushka, Dr. Jackson
will trace the non-human through dance history. With an episode of
Star Trek as Dr. Rashkin's focus, she will investigate the complex
and often subtle relationships linking dance, human development, and
the nature of performance. Dr. Daly will respond.
Afternoon workshop sessions with media artist and theorist
Douglas Rosenberg, will consist of practical hands-on experience as
well as demonstrations of shooting and editing dance for the camera.
These sessions will reflect dance, film and gender theories as they
relate to symposium presentations.
SCREENINGS:
September 26th - Pre-Festival Screening, The Next Generation: Juried
Student Works
For the second time, in conjunction with the Dance for the
Camera Festival, the students of the University of Utah's Department
of Modern Dance will be presenting student works chosen from
submissions from around the world. Selected by a jury of
professionals and educators in the field, this evening provides young
filmmakers and choreographers with a venue for their work, as well as
providing audiences with a glimpse of the future.
SEPTEMBER 27TH - DIVERSEWORKS
This year's program will feature an exciting selection of
innovative dance films from around the world. Premiering from the
U.S. is REAL BOY, directed by Douglas Rosenberg. With choreography
and performance by Sean Curran, Real Boy is a dance for camera
inspired by the Pinocchio story of Italian author Carlos Collodi.
The creation myth is still present in this version, but director
Rosenberg replaces truth-telling with performance as the downfall of
the erstwhile puppet who longs to be a real boy.
From Slovenia comes DOM SVOBODE, directed by Saso Podgorek
and choreographed by Iztok Kovak. In the post-industrial Slovenian
town of Trbovlje, a company of dancers sets out to overcome the
gravity of a vertical stone wall. The camera joins in this impossible
task, and the result is an act of breathtaking defiance against the
banalities of life.
From Holland, REST IN PEACE, is the recipient of Best in
Festival Award at Dance Films Association's Dance On Camera Festival
2000, and is directed by Annick Vroom with choreography and
performance by the Hans Hof Ensemble. REST IN PEACE is a wordless
narrative that follows the unraveling order of the lives of four
bereaved young people in the home of their deceased parents.
In LE P'TIT BAL an irresistible short by the prolific French
choreographer Philippe Decoufle, a couple enacts the infectiously
nostalgic lyrics of "C'etait Bien" with a meticulously timed gestural
language.
Director/Choreographer Hans Beenhaaker from the Netherlands,
has created WIPED, a Jury Winner at the Dance Films Association's
Dance on Screen Festival, 2001. Riveting and emotionally charged,
WIPED is fresh, innovative filmmaking with tight editing and
extraordinary pacing. The film sets up a game between fantasy and
reality that is never resolved. Created by a former member of Pina
Bausch's Wuppertaler Dance Theater.
From Australia is SURE choreographed and directed by Tracie
Mitchell. The work SURE makes comment on the journey forward in life,
the way we select pathways and make choices.
From Canada is CORNERED, produced, directed and choreographed
by Michael Downing. This vertiginous black and white film redefines
gravity as an attractive force of right angles
September 28th - THE HEART OF THE MATTER: An Evening with Victoria Marks
American Choreographer, Victoria Marks, is well known for her
award-winning collaborations with British Director, Margaret
Williams. The University of Utah is pleased to present all three of
these moving works on one program. The evening will begin with an
introduction by the choreographer and conclude with an open
discussion between Ms. Marks and the audience.
OUTSIDE IN won the 1994 Best Screen Choreography Award at the
IMZ Dance Screen Festival in Vienna, Austria. Ms. Marks calls
Outside In, "an unusual journey along tracks and pathways both real
and imaginary. It is a voyage of discovery and surprises: a witty and
affectionate exploration of physicality, identity and movement that
transforms our understanding of dance."
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS examines the potency and the sensuality
of the relationship between mother and daughter. Victoria Marks and
Margaret Williams worked with ten pairs of real mothers and
daughters, many of whom had never performed before. The film looks at
the micro and the macro, the unique and the universal, and received a
1994 "Creation for the Camera Award" at the Grand Prix International
Video Danse (France) and Special Jury Award at IMZ 1996.
MEN, a 20-minute dance made for the camera, is performed by 7
elderly men living in Canmore, Alberta. This enigmatic work
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.
Funding for the Dance for the Camera Festival has been
generously provided by The Council of Dee Fellows, the Department of
Modern Dance/College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities, the
Division of Gender Studies, and the Tanner Humanities Center of the
University of Utah.
WHAT: DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM
WHEN: Festival Screenings:
Thursday, Sept. 26, 8:00 p.m. - Pre-Festival Screening
Friday and Saturday, September 27 & 28, 8:00 p.m.
Festival Symposium and Workshop:
Saturday and Sunday, September 28 & 29, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
WHERE: University of Utah Department of Modern Dance
Marriott Center for Dance
Salt Lake City, Utah
COSTS: Screenings: $5.50
2-Day Symposium/Workshop: $150.00 (screenings included)
No charge for University of Utah students with ID
CONTACT: ELLEN BROMBERG, Festival Director:
e.bromberg@m.cc.utah.edu
Eric Handman, Assistant to the Director:
ehandman@hotmail.com
PH (801) 587-9807 or (801) 581-7327
FX (801) 581-5442
www.dance.utah.edu
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Bios 2002
Ellen Bromberg, Assistant Professor of Modern Dance at the University
of Utah, has been creating dances for companies and solo artists for
over 30 years. She has received numerous awards for her work
including two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards; one for outstanding
achievement in choreography and a second for her work with Douglas
Rosenberg on Singing Myself A Lullaby. She was also honored with a
Bonnie Bird American Choreographer Award, a Pew National Dance/Media
Fellowship and with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the George Soros Foundation among
others. She has created a number of works for the screen which have
been broadcast by KQED TV in San Francisco, Wisconsin Public
Television, and nationally on PBS Television's Alive From Off Center.
She has just completed a documentary: "Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal,
The Re-staging of State of Darkness."
Ann Daly is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of expertise are in
twentieth-century dance, visual culture, feminist and cultural
theory, performance analysis, and critical practice. Her articles
have appeared in leading scholarly journals, and her essays have been
commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Former
president of the Dance Critics Association, she has written cultural
commentary for the New York Times and the Village Voice.. She is the
author of Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture and Done
into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America, which won the 1996 Congress on
Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Publication. Dr. Daly has
been invited to speak across the United States and in Canada,
England, France, Hong Kong, Italy, and Korea.
Naomi Jackson is a dance scholar and writer who has published and
presented papers in Europe, Canada, and the United States. She
received her bachelor's degree in philosophy and art history from
McGill University, her masters degree in dance studies from the
University of Surrey in England, and her doctoral degree in
performance studies from New York University. Dr. Jackson has taught
at the Julliard School and Queens College in New York, and her
reviews and articles appear in such publications as Dance Research
Journal, Dance Chronicle, and Dance Research. She has served as a
member of the board of the Society of Dance History Scholars, and has
helped organize various conferences, including the 1999 International
Dance and Technology Conference. She currently lives in Tempe,
Arizona, where she is an associate professor in the Department of
Dance at Arizona State University. Her recent book from Wesleyan
University Press is entitled, Converging Movements: Modern Dance and
Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y (2000).
Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film, in community
settings and for professional dancers. Her work magnifies and
develops the unique characters of the people she works with - and,
through performance, communicates that to a wider audience. Marks was
honored with the 1997 Alpert Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Choreography, and has been the recipient of grants and fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council
on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London
Arts Board, among others. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in
Choreography, and numerous awards for her dance films, including the
Grand Prix in the Video Danse Festival (1996 and 1995), the Golden
Antenae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen
choreography and the Best of Show in the Dance Film Association's
Dance and the Camera Festival. Victoria is an associate professor of
Choreography and Performance in the Department of World Arts and
Cultures at UCLA.
Esther Rashkin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at
the University of Utah where she teaches courses in literature, film,
psychoanalytic and critical theory, and gender and cultural studies.
She is the author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of
Narrative (Princeton UP, 1992), and of numerous articles on subjects
including trauma and loss, French anti-Semitism, the Holocaust,
sexual violence in film, and the psychoanalysis of social
catastrophe. She is currently completing a book on trauma and
mourning. She received her B.A. in French literature from Queens
College (City University of New York) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
French literature from Yale University. She also holds a Master of
Social Work degree from the University of Utah and is a licensed
psychotherapist with expertise in the treatment of mood and anxiety
disorders, trauma, and gender issues. In 2000, she was named a
Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has been a
devotee of dance since her childhood in New York.
Douglas Rosenberg is well known for his collaborations with Molissa
Fenley, Sean Curran, Joe Goode, Li Chiao-Ping and others. Recent
honors include fellowships from the Project on Death in America,
funded by the Soros Foundation, the Wisconsin Arts Board (Fellowship
in Performance), Isadora Duncan Dance Award (IZZIE), Bay Area Dance
Coalition for his work with Ellen Bromberg on Singing Myself A
Lullaby. His work has been funded by the NEA, the Zellerbach
Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. His numerous residencies
include: The Institute for Studies in The Arts, and the International
Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina and recently
STARLAB Institute, Brussels and the Video Danza Mostra, Barcelona.
Recent shows include, Video Festival Riccionne Teatro Televisione,
Riccione, Italy, The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, Dance
on Camera Festival, New York, Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona,
Spain, The Video Place, London, and Moving Pictures Festival of
Video Dance, Toronto. His video dance work was recently screened at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art and will be featured at the National
Museum of Dance in November. He currently teaches in the
Dance/Interarts Technology program at University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
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Ellen Bromberg, Assistant Professor
Department of Modern Dance
University of Utah
330 S. 1500 E. Rm. 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
PH: 801/587-9807
FX: 801/581-5442
Dance Office: 801/581-7327
e.bromberg@m.cc.utah.edu
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