dance screen Brighton is a festival, a competition and a conference all rolled into one, and comes to the UK for the very first time 16 - 19 June. The extensive programme includes world, European and UK premieres of powerful dance shorts, documentaries, films and the latest choreography made just for the screen.
Along with two evenings of International Screenings the public can catch the Shortlist Screening of the hottest films around, a Performance Lecture by Brighton 's very own Professor Liz Aggiss, and join the Awards Ceremony when the winners are announced. More than 230 dance film and video entries from all over the world will be vying for the top prizes that can change an artist's career.
The whole event ends with a public Sunday Brunch Screening of the winning films - including the Delegate's Choice - at the Duke of York's cinema.
A partnership project between IMZ and Arts Council England, dance screen Brighton is produced by IMZ International Music + Media Centre in Vienna , initiator of dance screen , and South East Dance.
Anyone registering as a delegate can also join in daytime sessions when dance artists, film makers, film commissioners, producers, TV programmers and curators will share their visions, frustrations and passions for this fast developing and popular art form. Delegates can drop in on conversations with big names screening their "Desert Island Clips".
For details of how to register visit www.dancescreen.com.
Look out for Archetype - intriguing live events and installations commissioned specially for unusual sites around the city to celebrate dance screen Brighton (16 - 19 June) and Architecture Week (17 - 26 June). These include such sites as a café, a church and a roving peeping box.
'We are thrilled that Brighton is hosting such an important international festival' said Arts Council England, South East Director Felicity Harvest , 'The Arts Council is committed to supporting artistic excellence in the field of dance and the moving image, and to have attracted the IMZ dance screen festival is a tremendous coup. Hosting this festival with South East Dance is an excellent opportunity to bring together the dance screen sector in the UK, while also recognising the increasing importance of the south east as a hub of international arts activity.'
Ticketed events
At the Corn Exchange
Thursday 16 June 8.00pm International Screening I
Friday 17 June 5.45pm Repeat International Screening I
8.30pm International Screening II
Saturday 18 June 2.30pm Performance lecture by Liz Aggiss with Billy Cowie
4.00pm Shortlist Screening
8.00pm Awards Ceremony
At the Duke Of York 's Cinema
Sunday 19 June 10.30am Finale Screening of Award Winners' Films,
Delegates Choice, & Open Mic session
Tickets: Corn Exchange
Screenings and Award Ceremony events: £6 concessions £5
Performance Lecture £5 concessions £4
Duke of York 's
Events: £6.50 concessions £5
Box Office 01273 602503 or book via www.picturehouses.co.uk
Confirmed films
Rhythm is it Choreography: Royston Muldoon
Director: Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch
"Rhythm is it!" is an award winning, inspiring film about empowerment, and is Germany 's most successful documentary of 2004/05.
We follow the Berlin Philharmonic as they venture out into local Berlin estates in search of 250 youngsters. Conductor Sir Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoon then challenge them to perform Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".
Augnablik Choreography: Karsten Liske, Erna Omarsdóttir, Luc Dunberry; Director: Karsten Liske
World Premiere
Three times Choreography: Sue Healey;
Director: Sue Healey
World Premiere
Blush Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
UK Premiere
Pioneering programmer and Artistic Director for VideoDance festival in Greece Christiana Galanopoulou will be curating a South East Dance evening of work that might make you question exactly how far the term 'dance film' can be stretched.
Mairead Turner , Director and Chief Executive of South East Dance, will screen the latest pilots by artists including Alex Reuben, Miriam King and Simon Wilkinson, and announce the artists awarded commissions for 2005.
Free events around Brighton
Archetype
Some extraordinary new live art and screen-based works have been commissioned to animate spaces of architectural interest within Brighton and celebrate Architecture Week 2005 and dance screen Brighton . The commissions include:
- Specimim, a live art and video piece by Brighton based artist Mim King , which explores the architecture of both the body and the building, in a 1930s art deco café in the Old Steine
- Seeing Brighton through a Box Eric de Kuyper from Belgium will be making a roving peeping box, inspired by the kinetoscope invented by Thomas Edison. Eric de Kuyper will take the box to different locations, framing choreographed movements mixed with views of different spaces, creating a "strangeness in the scene"
- Vestige (working title) Rajyashree Ramamurthi, recent winner at Dance on Screen 2004 and a former University of Brighton graduate, has developed a vibrant performance incorporating dance, live animation and sound design
All Archetype performances are free - for performance times and venues please visit www.architectureweek.org.uk
Men in the Wall
Directed by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie
"They talk, sing, play music and move in a fashion stamped with the Aggiss/Cowie signature of quirky-humoured poetry and askew beauty." Donald Hutera, Dance Europe
Men in the Wall is an Arts Council Capture 3 commission. This four-screen, 3 dimensional, stereoscopic installation re-defines dance screen practice. Special stereoscopic glasses are provided to watch this 3D world of four men whose shared, framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. The piece runs on a continuous 25 minute loop and will be shown in the Brighton Unitarian Church on New Road . Supported by Arts Council England, South East, and the Centre for Research and Development (Arts and Architecture) University of Brighton , Men in the Wall will continue to run during Architecture Week.
Thursday 16 - Sun 26 June
Excluding Sunday 19 June
Delegates and ticket holders for events at the Corn Exchange can see the following FREE installations at the venue
Open Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 June
Time Steps by Hans Beenhakker (NL)
Time Steps presents ten four-minute films that pick out dance in personal everyday situations as their central topic. Media reality and everyday reality mix. On television run private archival pictures from the 1920s and 1930s, inspiring people to dance in front of the monitor in response - a mixture of provocation and reverie.
Already presented in 25 railway stations in Germany this work comes to the UK for the first time.
Stereo Dances by Rosemary Lee and Nic Sandiland (UK) is a playful interactive dance installation where each participant gets to create a duet with a partner. Rosemary Lee has been choreographing, performing and directing for twenty years. Her work is characterised by a desire to work in different locations and with a variety of people and media. Accessible and luminous, her work is distinguished by a simplicity of movement and highlights the humanity of the performer. Nic Sandiland is a multi-media artist working with installation, performance and film, originally having trained as an electronics engineer. He has made work in London , Singapore , South Korea and Europe . Stereo Dances , originally created in 1999, was part of the exhibition called choreography looking at everyday movement in a choreographic context. Nic's live VJ-ing work can also be caught during dance screen Brighton .
Walking by Chloe Østmo is a photographic installation that through a series of still images employs slices of space and time to create an experience of duration and motion.
Chloe Østmo is a second year student on the Dance and Visual Art Course at the University of Brighton .
The Anti-Epic by John Wardlow is a screen-based installation that gives Hollywood style epic cinema an avant-garde twist. John is also a student at the University of Brighton .
About the festival organisers - IMZ and South East Dance, in partnership with Arts Council England
IMZ is a major organisation for people in the music and dance business. The object of the IMZ is to provide a branch between dance and music and the media; to give the creative artists an incentive to reaffirm how vivid, entertaining and innovative dance (and music) in the audiovisual media can be. Technical and artistic quality and their many manifestations in film, video and recordings are becoming more and more important in our digital age. Recent forms such as DVD, the classical video clip or online music services are rapidly developing their markets. IMZ helps practitioners to keep up with these developments and provides an outlet and showcase for the results.
The dance screen Competition covers 5 categories: live performance relay, camera re-work, screen choreography, documentary and DVD release. Only programmes produced since September 2002, and not entered in dance screen 2002, are considered for competition. 35 monitors will allow delegates to view films submitted into the competition. A jury of five international experts will select a winner in each category. The main prize, the dance screen Award, of € 15,000 will be presented to the best film overall, from any of the five categories.
For more information on IMZ see www.imz.at
South East Dance is a national dance agency based in Brighton in the South East region of England with a specialism in dance for camera work. The agency has produced award winning dance films including two Best Screen Choreography awards at the IMZ dance screen festivals in 1999 ( Dust - Miriam King and Anthony Atanasio) and 2002 ( Minou - Magali Charrier). South East Dance is the lead agency with a development programme for dance for camera in the UK . The current programme of work includes a two-stage commissioning scheme for pilots and full commissions, tiered training courses to develop the artistic practice of dance film makers, national touring, international distribution and an annual screening event in the Brighton Festival. South East Dance has also recently worked in partnership with Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video in Toronto to produce 4 Anglo-Canadian co-commissions for Channel 4 and Bravo! FACT broadcast channels. The four films were screened on Channel 4 in December 2004.
For more information on South East Dance see www.southeastdance.org.uk
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts. Between 2003 and 2006 we will invest £2 billion of public funds in the arts in England , including funding from the National Lottery. We believe that the arts have the power to transform lives and communities, and to create opportunities for people throughout the country. Our vision is to promote the arts at the heart of national life, reflecting England 's rich and diverse cultural identity. We want people throughout England to experience arts activities of the highest quality.
For more information on Arts Council England see www.artscouncil.org.uk
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