Dance Video Editing Workshop

From: Karlen, Joan (jkarlen@uwsp.edu)
Date: 11/16/02


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>  Dear Collegues --
>
>  I am writing to let you know that Alla Kogvan and I will be 
>teaching a Dance Video Editing Workshop as a part of the 31st Dance 
>on Camera Festival and Forum in New York City, January 10-18. 
>Details below. Please direct applications to Alla, akovgan@rcn.com.
>  all the best
Joan Karlen

>  Dance Video Editing Workshop:
>  Our hands-on workshop invites dancers, choreographers and dance 
>film/video makers to discover the wonders of editing. During the 
>Workshop, we will introduce a number of editing approaches and 
>techniques and illustrate their use through excerpts from both 
>recent and older dance films and video works. We will also 
>demonstrate the capabilities of the Final Cut Pro 3 digital editing 
>software, and will provide you with a set of basic tools to use the 
>system. The number of participants is limited to 8-10.
>
>  We invite both beginners and more experience dance film/video 
>makers to sign up. We encourage more experienced dance film/video 
>makers to bring footage of the 3-4 minute piece or excerpt they are 
>currently working on. During three hands-on three-hour sessions of 
>the workshop, they will able to edit their pieces. The beginners are 
>not expected to have any prior editing experience and are not 
>required to bring their footage. All the participants are invited to 
>bring their prior dance film/video works for critiques and 
>discussions during the final session.
>
>  Workshop Dates:
>  Sunday, January 12 10AM-1PM;
>  Monday, January 13, 10AM-1PM,
>  Tuesday, January 14 10AM-1PM and 2-5PM (critiques).
>  (In case there are more of you registered than we can accept, there 
>is a possibility of offering the second session from Wednesday, 
>January 15-Friday, January 18, we will be in contact with you once 
>you have registered.)
>
>  Workshop Fee: $150, make checks payable to Dance Films Association, 
>please send your checks covering the $150 or a non-refundable $25 
>deposit along with your application to (the final amount is due on 
>the first day of the Workshop):
>      Dance Films Association
>      Editing Workshop
>      48 West 21st Street, #907
>      New York, NY 10010
>
>  Also, please e-mail your application to
>  akovgan@rcn.com with the SUBJECT: Editing Workshop
>
>  Registration Deadline: December 14, 2002
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------
>  Instructors:
>
>  Alla Kovgan is a film / video maker, curator and teacher from 
>Moscow (Russia) who has lived and worked in Boston since 1996. Her 
>16mm films and videos (> '> Aching> '> , > '> Belongings> '> , > '> 
>Surface> '> , > '> Clara Wainwright: Tales of a Community Quilt> '> 
>) have been screened at the film festivals and theatrical venues 
>around the US, Canada, and Europe including Museum of Fine Arts 
>(Boston, MA), DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), Antimatter Film 
>Festival (Victoria, BC), East Art Gallery (Hungary), EuroUnderground 
>(Poland), Napolidanza (Italy), Festival Internacional de Video Danza 
>(Buenos Aires, Argentina), and others.  Besides films and videos, 
>Alla's media of expression and exploration encompass multimedia 
>performances, interactive video projections and other 
>image/sound/body collaborations with dancers and musicians. Together 
>with Jeff Silva, she curates Balagan Experimental Film and Video 
>Series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston, recognized by the 
>Boston Film Critics Society as the > "> best film series of 2001> "> 
>.  Alla has received grants from LEF Foundation, Brookilne 
>Commission for the Arts, American Consulate in St. Petersburg 
>(Russia), Boston First Night Foundation and others.
>
>  Among Alla> '> s recent endeavors are a dance/film/construction 
>collaboration-performance Body Tales (2001) and Blind Spot #2 
>(2002), teaching (together with Deirdre Towers of Dance Films 
>Association, New York) two international Dance on Camera workshops 
>and curating and presenting six dance-film programs at the Kannon 
>Dance School of Modern Dance and ProArte Institute of New Media in 
>St. Petersburg, Russia (summer 2001, winter 2002, spring 2003) and 
>co-producing (together with Ken Glazebrook) a documentary about 
>African Modern Dance > "> African Dance: Sand, Drum and 
>Shostakovich> ">  that will premiere at the Lincoln Center (New York 
>City) as an official selection of the Dance on Camera Festival 2003.
>
>  Joan Karlen (choreographer, videographer, and performer) is 
>Professor of Theatre & Dance at University of Wisconsin-Stevens 
>Point, specializing in multimedia presentations in dance and video. 
>She has premiered her video and computer-generated dances throughout 
>the United States and in Portugal and was a selection jury member 
>for Dance Films Association's Dance on Camera Festival 2000 at 
>Lincoln Center, NYC.
>
>  Joan is currently developing a new interactive and multimedia 
>performance project, ZOOM IN, LOOK OUT, with Argentine collaborators 
>Margarita Bali (director/choreographer), Jorge Sad (composer) and 
>Francisco Colasanto (interactive software programmer). This project 
>explores and defines ways that interactive technologies can be 
>designed to reveal a dramatic narrative, in this case, the unfolding 
>of a female character's personality as danced by Karlen. The ZOOM IN 
>stage space is completely > "> mapped> ">  using MAX/msp software 
>which enables sounds and images to appear, change and disappear in 
>response to the performer> '> s movement. Performances are planned 
>at UWSP in May 2003 and Buenos Aires in October 2003.
>
>  At University of Wisconsin Joan designed and coordinates the 
>Interdisciplinary Studies curriculum, teaches camera dance, digital 
>video editing, dance composition and technique. She has twice 
>received UWSP's Excellence in Teaching Award, a Wisconsin Arts Board 
>Choreography Fellowship, and this year was named a University of 
>Wisconsin Teaching Scholar. She is a contributing author to the 
>October 2002 book Distance Learning Technologies: Effective 
>Practices, and has published her work in electronic journals and 
>CD-ROM.  Joan earned dance degrees from The Juilliard School and New 
>York University. She performed professionally in New York and 
>regionally before joining the University of Wisconsin Theatre & 
>Dance faculty.
>
>
>  -------------------------------------------------------
>
>  REGISTRATION FORM
>
>  NAME:
>
>  ADDRESS:
>
>  E-mail:
>
>  OCCUPATION:  ( ) dancer  ( ) choreographer ( ) film/video maker ( ) 
>other, please specify
>
>  PRIOR EDITING EXPERIENCE using Final Cut Pro System:
>  (  )   I have never used a computer editing system
>  (  )   I have some editing experience and edited before using Final 
>Cut Pro System (specify if you used other system)
>  (  )   I am an experienced editor and I have used the Final Cut Pro 
>editing system
>  (  )   others, please specify
>
>  PRIOR EXPERIENCE as DANCE FILM/VIDEO MAKER:
>  (  )   I have never completed a dance film/video
>  (  )   I have never completed a dance/film/video myself but I have 
>been involved in other makers' projects
>  (  )   I have never completed a dance/film/video myself but I am 
>working on a project now
>  (  )   I have completed a dance film/video(s) ? name the films
>  (  )   I have been involved in multimedia collaborations - specify what kind
>  (  )   other, please specify
>
>  Are you intending to bring raw footage to be edited during the Workshop?
>  ( ) yes  ( ) no
>
>  If yes, please let us know the details of your project - synopsis, 
>length, shooting format:
>
>
>  Your SHORT BIO:
>
>
>  I am attaching a check or an international money order, payable to 
>DFA, for (  ) $150 workshop fee or  (  ) $25 non-refundable deposit
>
>  SIGNATURE:
>
>
>  PLEASE SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO:
>     Dance Films Association
>      Editing Workshop
>      48 West 21st Street, #907
>      New York, NY 10010
>
>  Also, please e-mail your application to
>  akovgan@rcn.com with the SUBJECT: Editing Workshop
>
>  Registration Deadline: December 14, 2002
>
>
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