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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

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Announcing Movement Media’s Weekly Online Videodance Contest on Move the Frame blog

Starting Friday June 5th, Pentacle’s Movement Media will showcase winners of a new weekly online videodance contest here on Move the Frame blog. Continue reading

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Creating a Lexicon for Screendance

If you are obsessed with dance film, as I am, you probably notice dance pop up all the time in mainstream media – in commercials, music videos, movie musicals, experimental films, and even in the middle of sitcoms. All of these are established genres in which dance has and continue to thrives in today, so why bother establishing a separate category for dance film that no one knows about? Continue reading

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Notes from the March 25th Artist Salon: Dance for Web-an Emerging Genre

At the last Artist Salon on March 25th at Chez Bushwick, Jaki Levy, a media artist and new media consultant, discussed dance work created specifically for the web. The question of the evening was: Why should artists make dance films specifically for the web? Continue reading

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Jaki Levy looks at Dance on the Web at the next Artist Salon at Chez Bushwick March 25th

At the next Artist Salon on March 25th at Chez Bushwick, Jaki Levy, founder of Arrow Root Media and new media producer for Misnomer Dance, Martha Graham Dance Co. and others, will be looking at dance work created specifically for the web. Dance on Camera has already established itself as a viable medium for showcasing dance + performance. However, there is a growing trend of artists creating and adapting work specifically for the web. Continue reading

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A.O.’s Production Blog: Business model/SIDE project.

As i touched on briefly during my “Epic” program at chez bushwick, and am now publishing to my blog, this piece (in terms of the overall film and dance project) is equally an artistic and a marketing exploration. Don’t let it dissuade you or turn you off – i’m not saying that it’s commercial or that it compromises artistic integrity to be marketable – quite the opposite! What i’m doing here is engineering the best system with which to a) make my work, b) showcase said work, and c) gain some profit (or at least don’t go into debt) from said showcasing, which will d) allow me to attack the process cycle all over again. Continue reading

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Two NYC Choreographers Making Innovative Use of the Web

This week I was struck by two interesting initiatives for web audiences by NYC dance artists. First, on Sunday December 14th at 8pm EST, Misnomer Dance Theater will have a live webcast of the final NYC performance of their premiere piece, Being Together choreographed by Chris Elam. Second, Yanira Castro is making a new duet for private performances in your bathroom, and it is being choreographed, in part, on Twitter. Continue reading

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Opportunity for Dance & Technology Artists

Sabine Klaus (aka Creation Editor) is starting a video documentary program focusing on dance technology in collaboration with Dance-Tech.net and Tendu.tv. The shooting will start in early 2009 and the 22min documentaries will be promoted on dance-tech and screened on Tendu TV in full-length. It will be a great way to get your work promoted and made known for FREE! Continue reading

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New Dance Films Now Playing in German Cinemas

Joint Adventures, a German dance and theatre production company has launched an ambitious project called Choreographic Captures to distribute short dance films to German movie houses. To start out, they had an international competition for one minute films. The five winners were just announced and will be played in dozens of cinemas this fall during the ads and movie previews that proceed the feature films. Continue reading

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Move the Frame Wordle

I just made a word image of my About page for Move the Frame on Wordle. Check it out and make your own!
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