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DANCE ON SCREEN 2004

Sun 7 November - Sun 14 November

The 10th anniversary Dance on Screen Film Festival at The Place features dance documentaries, short dance films and animation.

The programme includes International Screenings of new work by some of the finest dance filmmakers from around the world, alongside retrospective gems from the archives. There is a debate with key players in dance, independent film, theatre and the dance film world. Filmmakers, including Alison Murray and Gillian Lacey, will give Insights presentations on their work.

The festival will wrap up with Departure Lounge, a night of pop promos, adverts and animation, featuring the Big Interview with Dawn Shadforth on the last night of the festival.

Master Class: Fri 15 - Fri 22 October

DANCE UK DEBATE Dance & the Media

A symposium hosted by Dance UK in association with Dance Umbrella
Mon 18 Oct 4.30-6.30pm
Royal Festival Hall, Chelsfield Room (Level 5)
FREE

Does dance get its fair share of air time and column inches? Is coverage in the media representative of the range and diversity of dance or does it merely reinforce stereotypes? What impact does the media have on dance audiences and participation? Does dance need to do more to engage with TV, radio, newspapers and the web?

These questions and more will be tackled through provocative presentations and lively debate with the audience.

Attendance at the symposium is free.

INVISIBLE DANCES Bock & Vincenzi

invisible dances…from afar: a show that will never be shown

invisible dances...from afar is a dance performance that can be heard on the telephone but will never be seen. Originally staged in a ‘dark’ theatre in London’s West End, the show was witnessed by an audience of one, the poet and writer Fiona Templeton, who recorded her experience of the extraordinary two-hour long performance as it happened. The nine dancers knew that if they stopped performing their audience would have nothing to describe and she knew that if she stopped talking that the show would disappear.

The resulting vivid and poetic account can be heard at any time if you dial 020 7505 4745 between 5 Oct and 27 Nov (calls charged at standard BT rates).

The haunting images of each of the 36 scenes of the same performance taken by photographer Henrik Thorup Knudsen, along with Fiona Templeton’s account and additional texts by Rose English, Martin Hargreaves and the spirit medium James Brown, will be reproduced in a limited edition publication. Designed by Lewis Nicholson this will coincide with the launch of the sound work for telephone.

Commissioned by Media Arts Projects in association with Dance 4 for NottDance (2003)
An Artsadmin Project