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Monthly Archives: June 2009
This Week’s Contest Winners: Summer or Winter
This week, as a tribute to the first days of summer, we explored the theme, “Summer or Winter.” Most of the works we received were site-specific and dealt with the elemental nature of the seasons. Others took an abstract/conceptual approach, and explored the inner psychological states of winter (isolation, sparseness, coldness) and summer (nurturing, abundance, warmth). For us, this pair of themes seemed like a good opportunity to acknowledge the attraction dancers have to making site-specific videos. Continue reading
Nijinsky Dances on Film….sort of
If you haven’t read it yet, check out Joan Acocella’s article, “The Faun,” in this week’s New Yorker about Christian Comte, a French artist, who makes animations from still images. Recently he chose Vaslav Nijinsky, the much revered Ballet Russe dancer and choreographer, as his subject, and posted what appeared to be film fragments of the artist on YouTube that were never known to exist before. The appearance of the clips sparked a frenzy of excitement and debate among balletomanes and dance historians. Continue reading
Posted in artists, history, pop culture, theory/criticism
Tagged animation, cinedance, dance film, dance history, photography, pop culture, technology, youtube
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Modern or Classical? Two Opposing Styles That Seem to be Merging in New Dance Media
This week’s theme was Modern or Classical as it applies to the styles of filming, choreography, and music. We discovered in viewing the submissions, that there were a great deal of gray areas in trying to categorize a piece under one specific style. Continue reading
Top Ten Vlogging Tips from Boris Willis
Boris Willis was our curator for our last Kinetic Cinema of the season. The subject of his evening was dance vlogs: a video blog with dance. As an experienced dance vlogger, Boris has many insights into the process of creating videos, performing for the camera, editing, and using the web to share his work online. He has graciously offered some helpful information about making dance videos, and creating dance vlogs. Continue reading
Posted in artistic process, artists, education/learning, Kinetic Cinema, production tips
Tagged blogs, education, Kinetic Cinema, learning, marketing, production tips, technology, video
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Program Notes from Boris Willis’ curated Kinetic Cinema
We wanted to provide you with the program notes and videos that Boris Willis presented at Kinetic Cinema, on June 10th at Chez Buskwick. Since his program was about dancevlogging, all the videos he showed are available online, which we have provided the links to. Coincidentally, Willis organized his videos along the theme of amateur/professional, fitting perfectly with our first Weekly Videodance Contest. Continue reading
Posted in artists, Kinetic Cinema, screenings/events
Tagged chez bushwick, dancefilm, Kinetic Cinema, learning, screenings, videodance
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Week Two Videodance Contest Winners: “Improvised or Choreographed”
This week we explored the theme: Improvised or Choreographed. As we looked at the this week’s submissions and nominations, many questions came up for us about what makes a work primarily improvised or choreographed. Could a piece be considered improvised if the dancing was choreographed but the camera work was improvised? What if only one performer was choreographed while the rest are improvising? Does a planned and highly structured improvisation fit better in the category of choreographed? While there may be no definitive answers to these questions, the winning videos this week were chosen in part because they seemed to fit together as a contrasting pair, like two sides of the same coin. Both were shot in site-specific locations, and involve pedestrian spectators reacting to spontaneous performances by trained dancers. There is an element of surprise in each, but the level of control and pre-meditated planning seem to be vastly different. Continue reading
Week One Videodance Contest Winners!
The theme we chose to kick things off first with was “Amateur or Professional.” For most of us, these words are loaded with connotations, many negative. Most often they are used to pass judgment on one’s job, performance, attitude or work. On the other hand, concepts about these terms are changing rapidly in the age of Web 2.0, as open access to social media is ushering in the rise of amateurism (and the fall of many old media industries) in what some sociologists and trend-spotters are calling the “Pro/Am” revolution. For our purposes, we hoped this theme would provoke an interesting discussion in the dance/film community about what these terms mean, and what the merits are of both approaches. Continue reading
Posted in artists, theory/criticism, Weekly Online Videodance Contest
Tagged amateur, contest winners, dance film, professional, screendance, videodance
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Final Kinetic Cinema of the Season!!!
Join us for the last Kinetic Cinema of the season featuring Boris Willis, a dancer, choreographer, video-maker and blogger based in Washington DC. Willis will explore the phenomena of dance vlogs (video blogs about dance) and present works by of some of the most notable and prolific dance vloggers today. Continue reading
Posted in artists, Kinetic Cinema, screenings/events
Tagged blogs, events, internet, Kinetic Cinema, media, NYC, screenings, videodance
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