ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival 2008
.... is our 5th biennial festival since 2000. ReelDance Festival 2008 celebrates the point where dance and film meet, showcasing the best of recent work from around the world and across the country.
In 2008, after 8 years as a project of One Extra and then Performance Space, ReelDance Inc. has also become its own company. Our move into a new phase of activities encompassing artist development, education and distribution, is reflected in the diverse and multi-faceted slate of programs contained in this year’s touring festival. The 5th biennial ReelDance Festival focuses on dance and movement in everyday life with dancefilms featuring ballroom and mambo, hip hop and burlesque. The festival also has an expanded program that goes well beyond film screenings, tailored to fit each of our 11 national and New Zealand touring partners.
Our international guests this year, UK artists Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, bring their touring installation the move-me.com booth, an adaptation of the photo booth environment where you can create your own short dancefilms and upload them to move-me.com booth’s award-winning website. There is also a swing club at several tour stops with a live band, projected archival swing dance footage and dancing instruction. And in Melbourne an associated live performance, Get a Grip, will be linked to classic hip hop and parkour feature films screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
ReelDance Best Documentary Winner...
Dance Like Your Old Man Aust (2006: 10min)
Directors Gideon Obarzanek and Edwina Throsby
Six women imitate their dads’ dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters.
ReelDance Finalists...
Morning Herd NZ (2006: 7min)
Director Rick Harvie
Choreographer/performer Ross McCormack
A simple, fast movement response inspired by working on a beef farm during a calving and weaning season; a place for the beginning and the end.
Soma Songs NZ (2006: 23min)
Director Daniel Belton
Choreographers and performers Tom Ward, Josef Belton, Daniel Belton
The skeletons of stone structures have sat with us for millenia. As the choreography develops, construction of an arcane architecture develops. Is this new space providing a shelter or a wall? A means to navigate and travel, or a massive instrument to play sound?
Will Time Tell? Aust (2006: 13min)
Director Sue Healey
Choreographer Sue Healey
Performers Shona Erskine with Ryuichi Fujimura, Norikazu Maeda, Yuka Kobayashi, Makiko Izu, Mina Kawai
The traveller seeks time-out in Tokyo - will time tell her what she needs to know?
POD Aust (2006: 12min)
Director Samuel James and Narelle Benjamin
Choreographer Narelle Benjamin
Performers members of Sydney Dance Company
Forms of nature become a graphic template for choreography in a fantastic and surrealist realm where dancers work in tune with the magnified mechanics of nature.
Shadow Play Aust (2007: 13min)
Director Madeleine Hetherton
Choreographer Rowan Marchingo
Performers Kirk Page, Alexandra Harrison
A difficult family relationship in which the emotional subtext is revealed through dance.
Fragmentation Aust (2007: 6min)
Director Suzon Fuks
Choreographer James Cunningham, Rob Tannion, Suzon Fuks
Performers James Cunningham, Rob Tannion
Based on the idea that even though technology links people, it can also fragment their lives.
Quietly Collapsed Aust (2007: 5min)
Director Samuel James and Rosie Dennis
Choreographer Rosie Dennis
Performers Rosie Dennis, Paula Callen, Sheila Ghelani, Rowan Marchingo
An electrifying exploration of claustrophobia - trapped in a world of unrelenting deadlines and white noise.
Reset Aust (2006: 12min)
Director Daniel Belton
Choreographers & performers Richard Huber, Caroline Claver, Donnihue Harrison, Daniel Belton
A couple face each other in a miniature tournament of wills and emotions.
Dis-Oriental Aust (2007: 6min)
Director Sean O’Brien
Choreographer & Performer Yumi Umiumare
A wildly absurd ritual exploring the notion of ‘oriental’ in the context of moving and living in ‘foreign’ spaces.
The Shape of Water Aust (2007: 14min)
Director Cordelia Beresford
Choreographer Narelle Benjamin
Perfomers Alexia Heckman, Wakako Asamo, Andrea Briody, Emmee Dillon, Reed Laplau, Katie Ripley
A sensory journey revolving around the mind and its inner workings flowing back and forth like the sea.
Tour Schedule
Melbourne: (May 1-11) ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Arts House and Dancehouse
Campbelltown: (May 9-11) Campbelltown Arts Centre
Sydney: (May 11– 18) Performance Space
Hobart: (May 23-25) Salamanca Arts Centre
Perth: (May 28 -June 1) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Noosa: (July 8-12) Noosa Longweekend
Brisbane: (July 15-16) World Dance Alliance & Ausdance QLD
Cairns: (July 27) On Edge Contemporary Media and Performance
Byron Bay (July 30) Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA)
Adelaide: (August 22-31) Antistatic
Christchurch: (Sept 25 – October 12): The Body Festival of Dance and Physical Theatre
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