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info / buy DANCE 2015 DVD & Streaming Image - Seven by Compagnie Pal Frenak artfilmsdigital Contemporary dance performances from Australia: Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin and from Europe: superb, electric choreographies. Dance of Film: special fusion of dance and film for film studies and for choreographers. Classical and contemporary techniques, masters of dance, ethno dance, world dance and dance in education. DANCE ON FILM | CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE | DANCERS | PERFORMANCE WORLD | HISTORY | HEALING ART | JAZZ/HIP-HOP/TAP | BALLET INSTRUCTIONAL/TRAINING | DOCUMENTARY | BALLROOM/SOCIAL | K-12 CATALOGUE Artfilms-digital is a DANCE ON FILM > unique collection of contemporary art films CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE > ideally suited for coursework, DANCERS > research and reference. PERFORMANCE > Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members WORLD > to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. HISTORY > HEALING ART > Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, JAZZ / HIP-HOP / TAP > artist interviews, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas. BALLET > www.artfilms-digital.com INSTRUCTIONAL / TRAINING > DOCUMENTARY > BALLROOM / SOCIAL > K -12 > DANCE ON FILM Video Dance Lectures: Parts 1 & 2 Maya Deren Dance Films AFT-Danlec | 80’ | DVD & Streaming In Australia six choreographers, six directors and eighteen dancers gathered together in Sydney to participate in the 1st National Dance Video Course. Under the direction of BBC Director of Dance, Bob Lockyer, the two week workshop aimed to encourage the exploration of choreography specifically for the camera. This RV-Maya2 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming Dance on Screen Sue Healey: In Time programme presents some of the dance experiments that came out A Study in Choreography 3 DVD Series of this event. for the Camera 2004 - 2007 1945 b/w 2:30 mins. Video Dance Lectures Part 1 Ritual in Transfigured Time The relationship between dance 1946 b/w 14:30 mins. and the screen. The viewer is taken on a journey through the world of Meditation on Violence rehearsals and television studios, 1948 b/w 13 mins. when choreographers, dancers The Very Eye of Night and directors come to terms with 1952-55 b/w 15 mins. the formidable aspects of video technology and the process of “In this film, I have attempted creating dance for the camera. to place a dancer in a limitless, LM-Dance | 20’ | DVD SH-Intime | 158’ | DVD & Streaming 55 mins. cinemato-graphic space. This is a dance which can exist only on film. By Lila Moore. Demonstrates DVD 1: Inevitable Scenarios Video Dance Lectures Part 2 The movement of the dancer creates that dance on screen, originating Live Performance 2006 Explores in greater detail the a geography that never was. With a from the contexts of modern DVD 2: As You Take Time turn of the foot, he makes neighbors practical craft of the dance/ and postmodern art and culture, Live Installation 2007 television director. 25 mins. of distant places. Being a film ritual, constitutes a unique art form and it is achieved not in spatial terms phenomenon reflecting current DVD 3: Short Dance Films alone, but in terms of a time created concerns with the notions of 1/ Three Times 2/ Once in a Blue by the camera.” hybridity and performance. Moon 3/ Will Time Tell? 4/ 13 & 32 DANCE ON FILM Dance with Me - Volume 1&2 Screendance 3 Cine Dance: The Butoh Dance Defying Gravity of Tatsumi Hijikata (by Takahiko iimura) CL-Screen | 20’ | DVD & Streaming TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming CAM-Grav | 34’ | DVD & Streaming Three short films Anma (The Masseurs) is realized Featuring Claudia Alessi, this com- by Chris Lewis-Smith: not only as a dance document pilation offers a unique perspec- Mirrorland (2010) but also as a Cine-Dance, a term tive on contemporary dance and Bodmin Whale (2009) made by Iimura, that is meant choreography. Excerpts from her to be a choreography of film.. acrobatic performances on stilts Watergate Bay (2007) Rose Color Dance, choreographed and in the air and two short exper- and performed in 1965 by Hijikata imental dance films “Wandering” with guest dancer. and “Threads”. MP-Dance | 280’ | DVD & Streaming Suzon Fuks #2 Filming Ballet The Brasso Produced in association with Bravo!, DANCE WITH ME is a hip, two volume Railway Station exploration of dance, choreography and space. The two volume set consists of six episodes each: dance pieces by leading Canadian contemporary dance companies in a variety of locations. The director, Albert Girard, found six very particular and different ambiances for the dancers to work in. The visually stunning locations are part of the concepts. The 12 x 24 minutes films are shot in a sport shop, warehouses, a church and an empty swimming pool amongst others. The locations and the spaces influence the choreographical choices. The dance pieces are colourful, hectic, sensual and poetic comments on human relationships. The dance companies presented are: Danse Carpe Diem, Louise Bedard Danse, Dance Cite, Systeme D, IG-Suz2 | 42’ | DVD & Streaming CAT-Film | 26’ | DVD & Streaming AP-Brasso | 40’ | DVD & Streaming Manitowapan, Les Sortileges Sinha Dance, Creation Cafeine, Lucie Gregoire Danse, Montreal Dance, Lina Cruz (adult themes), Danse-Cite / Manon This experimental collection An examination of the special In Transylvania apart from the (adult themes) spanning more than 20 years, problems involved in bringing ancient Hungarian inhabitants, highlights Fuks’ interest in the classical dance to the film screen, Szekelys and Csangos, other ethnic The volumes are excellent resources for choreographers and dance moving image, using light to reveal including considerations of lighting, groups like Saxons, Romanians, students as well as Cinema Studies for their exceptional visually rich filming movement. Texturally layered, camera movement, costuming and Gypsies and Jews have been living techniques. Great examples what dance can be presented on film. her imagery draws parallels and framing the shot to emphasize the together for centuries. This film is connections, analogies between whole body or details of technique. about the dance and music of this The volumes are available individually or save 10% when buying the set. the abstract and the mundane. culturally rich area. CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Chunky Move: Chunky Move: Chunky Move: Chunky Move: Chrissie Parrott Connected I Want to Dance Better Mortal Engine Two Faced Bastard Dance Architect at Parties CM-Connect | 60’ | DVD & Streaming CM-Iwant | 74’ | DVD & Streaming CM-Mortal | 60’ | DVD & Streaming CM-Two | 60’ | DVD & Streaming NJ-Parrot | 47’ | DVD & Streaming Chunky Move transcended the I Want to Dance Better at Parties Mortal Engine is a dance-video- A cleverly staged work, Two Faced This candid interview reveals trade limits of earthly form by immersing begins as a live documentary music-laser performance using Bastard reveals our constant state secrets and offers alternative dancers in an illusory world of about five individual men’s rela- movement and sound responsive of duality and capacity for treachery approaches to fundamental skill- motion tracking and projection tionship to dance. These men projections to portray an ever- in the desire for individual gain. A based ideas to aspiring choreo- technology. In Connected, this are represented on stage by five shifting, shimmering world in tantalising look at two duplicitous graphers. It talks about striding dynamic is flipped on its back and dancers and also appear on film which the limits of the human body worlds of fiction and reality, this through the physical architecture digital technology is side-stepped projected on screens suspended are an illusion. production exposes its cast with of musical scores, hand in hand in favour of pure mechanics. above. often hilarious consequences. with composers and conductors. Chunky Move: Lucy Guerin Inc: Lucy Guerin Inc: Firebird Graeme Murphy’s Just Add Water Aether Love Me and Other Legends Swan Lake HC-Chun | 26’ | DVD & Streaming LG-Aeth | 50’ | DVD & Streaming LG-Love | 55’ | DVD & Streaming AB-Fire | 105’ | DVD & Streaming AB-Graeme | 140’ | DVD & Streaming It is a half hour documentary Guerin generates intricate and A triple bill of duets featuring the A celebration of three timeless In master storyteller Graeme about innovative contemporary chaotic dance which exists in a acclaimed Melt, On and Reservoir ballets - Firebird, Petrouchka, and Murphy’s hands, the world’s Australian choreographer Gideon texture of signals, messages and of Giving with visual artist David Les Sylphides - performed by The favourite ballet becomes a witty, Obarzanek. The film focuses on data created by award winning Rosetzky and motion graphics Australian Ballet at the Sydney dramatic and ultimately devastating his creative process in devising the motion graphics designer Michaela designer Michaela French. Opera House. Australia only. story of love and betrayal. full length dance work ‘Hydra’ with French. It is a new full-length dance It’s a familiar tale – a love triangle the internationally acclaimed dance work that explores the integration between a princess, her prince, company Chunky Move. of projection, sound and movement. and a woman with a prior claim on his heart. Australia only. CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Seven InTimE K.áO.sz! The Yellow Wallpaper European Dance Theater PFR-Seven | 63’ | DVD & Streaming PFR-Intime | 45’ | DVD & Streaming PFR-Kaosz | 48’ | DVD & Streaming YB-Yellow | 54’ | DVD & Streaming PB-Eurdan| 60’ | DVD & Streaming In Seven,