Programme 2003

An international dance filmfestival created to show dance films and video's.
On the 28th of June 2003 Cinedans took place in theatre 'de Balie' in Amsterdam.
In the programme link you can see what has been shown and what you have missed!!!!
For the competition we received 130 tapes from 20 countries.

jury members for the competition are:
Krisztina de Châtel
Johan Greben
Wouter Snip
Eileen Standley
Hans de Wolf

Winner: 'Be always with us' by Hanna Haaslathi and Hanna Brotherus.
Honourable mentioning: 'Hyper Alarm Dance' by Michael Cole

Christopher Walken really finds his “groove” in a hotel lobby. FatBoy Slim’s rhythms – accompanied by Bootsy Collins – are instinctively seducing. The dancing you see here goes far beyond the robotica, aerobics and coochie-grinds usually used in music videos.

Ere Mela Mela
France, 2000 – 6 min.

Choreographer: Lionel Hoche
Film director: Dan Wiroth
Music: Mahmoud Ahmed
Dancers: Lionel Hoche / David Drouard
Production: ARTE France, Heure d'ete Productions, Tarantula

Six choreographers and directors adapt exotic songs, popular in France, for dance on video. Ere Mela Mela is part number one. In this film we see the gentle relationship between two men, where communication, dependency and play constantly alternate.
The dynamic choreography finds an exciting match with creative animation.

Fly
New Zealand, 2001 - 4 min.

Choreographer/Director: Shona McCullagh
Producer: Margaret Slater
Dancer: John Callen
Composer: David Long
Sponsor: SK Cultural Foundation (Cologne) and Interartes GmbH (Essen)

A capturing film about a boy’s desire to fly shows his father’s inner struggle to let him go.
Exciting movement language reveals the last moments before father and son’s farewell.
Lightly based on the myth of Daedalus and Icarus.

Shelter
The Netherlands, 2003 – 8 min.

Director: Boris Paval Conen
Choreographer: Shusaku Takeuchi
Dancers: Sabine Kupferberg, David Krügel
Co-production with NPS, BBC, Arts Council of England
Distributor broadcasted by NPS and BBC

A man and a woman, who take no notice of each other, search for shelter in a desolate forest. While the rain pours down, intimacy ignites between them. The leaking roofing doesn’t bother them, on the contrary: the augmenting torrent of raindrops inspires their intimate dance. When the rain stops, the magic dissolves; they both leave, feeling uneasy and ashamed.

Praise you
USA, 1998 – 3 min.

Director: Spike Jonze
Co-director: Roman Coppola
Choreographer: Michael Rooney
Dancers: The Torrance Community Dance Group

The video that's making bad dancers look good, was shot after Fatboy Slim's performance at the Mayan Theatre in LA. It was shot on the lam outside a Westwood theatre, in one take under 10 minutes. The dancers are from the "Torrance Community Dance Group," the theatre managers and bouncers appearances were unscheduled. So was a break dancing Michael Jackson impersonator (who was cut from the video). The video is an expanded version of Spike Jonze's (Video Guru behind Weezer's "Buddy Holly," Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," and the Chemical Brothers' "Electrobank") video treatment for "Rockafeller Skank" (right about now the funk soul brother check it out now ...). The treatment was a joke ... a video tape of Spike dancing it up on Hollywood Boulevard. Spike had some free time the weekend Norman was DJing in LA ... and in 5,6,7,8!

IMZ DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR
17.00 hrs, grote zaal

Human Radio
England, 2001 - 9 min.

Director: Miranda Pennell
Producer: David Z Obadiah
Director of Photography: Mary Farbrother
Sound: Graeme Miller
Music: Andy Cowton
Leading Players: Londoners as Themselves

Everywhere, all over London, people dance abundantly in their sitting -rooms, unobserved. The dancers, at times comical and touching, had reacted on an advertisement of Miranda Pennell, looking for ‘sitting-room dancers” – people who like to dance behind closed doors.

Minou
England, 2002 – 7 min.

Director: Magali Charrier, Rozi Peters
Choreography: Maria Lloyd, Magali Charrier
Producer:South East Dance National Dance Agency

Minou, a young woman in her 20s, survives her solitude by filling her flat with imaginary friends (toys, pets, objects) en her head with romantic stories. One day, a plumber comes and disturbs her world. But what if he is to understand her friends and, through them, Minou herself? Is this the beginning of a real love story?

Showtime
England, 2002, 7 min.

Produced by South East Dance, Lighthouse Digital Media and Film
TV Directors: Steve Radmell, Paul Romans
Choreography: Steve Kirkham

The amateur dancer Kirky, a sympathetic, slightly neurotic chronically unlucky person, is desperate to make it into a show. Any show will do, just as long as can dance. Showtime follows Kirky's first riotous attempt at a professional audition. A funny, painful portrayal of someone who is slightly out of touch with the real world, and also a tribute to the late great Bob Fosse.

When Dancers Go Bowling
USA, 2000 – 17 min.

Director: Michael DeMirjian
Choreographer: Amanda Rabin
Producer: Joy Malinowski
Director of Photography: Steve Andrich
Original music: Len Miller

8 discouraged dancers, meet in a bowling alley and start investigating the facilities.
A somewhat dull bowling instruction sign from 1961, adds dry comical commentary.
The bowling alley transforms into a unique performance space, where the camera captures flying movement in moderate lighting.

AFRICAN CALL
18.00 uur, grote zaal

Jaay Naffi
The dance and percussion group Jaay Naffi will present a short and energetic introduction to the program titled African Call (dance films from and about Africa).
The group led by the Dutch-Senegalese dancer Pape Assane Sow consists of West African artists, showing a wide variety of surprising African dances: The narrative Ballanta, the exciting Sarba-dances or the charming Wolo Sedon. Accompanied by traditional percussive instruments and dressed in stunning costumes, the dancers take the public on a trip into the wealth and diversity of the cultures of Western Africa.

Black Spring
France, 2002 - 26 min.

Choreographer: Heddy Maalen
Director: Benoit Dervaux
Dance Company: Compagnie Ivoire
Dancers: Simone Goris, Serge Anagondu
Producer: Heure d’Ete
Sponsors: Arte, Sinsa Finn, Derives
Distributor: Ideale Audience International.

Western notions of African bodies in movement are depicted with deceptive simplicity and purity, set in the limelight. The dance is interspersed with scenes of contemporary life in Africa which serve to heighten awareness of the social and political sensitivities inherent in modern African dance.

The Sound of Drumming
The Netherlands, 2001 – 22 min.

Director: Janica Draisma
Actors: Freerk Bos, Johanna ter Steege, Pape Assane Sow, Pim Lambeau

Vera works in a fish factory and daydreams of escaping her unpleasant existence. She then meets an African dancer in a beachside pub, who enchants her. Basic earthly powers and energies unleash. Her desperate boyfriend sees Vera slip away from him. A comically tragic, surreal fairytale where reality and fantasy, western and non- western cultures interweave.

DOCUMENTARY
19.15 uur, grote zaal

Queen of the Gypsies
USA, 2002, 80 min.

Production and direction: Jocelyn Ajami.

The first American film portrait of Gypsy dancer Carmen Amaya, who brought the fury and grit of Flamenco ‘puro’ to the international stage.

COMPETITION
21.00 uur, grote zaal

More than a hundred and thirty films from twenty countries have been sent in for the Cinedans Competition. The six films, chosen by the jury as the best ones, will be shown on the big screen during the festival. All the other films can be seen on request in the video room on the festival location. After the showing, the first Cinedans Award of one thousand Euros will be presented to the winner.

A very dangerous pastime
Canada, 2000, 15 min.

Director: Laura Taler

Dance a very dangerous pastime? In 1913, riots took place in the streets of Paris after the premiere of Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring and still the myth lives on that dance is beyond comprehension for the layperson. In a witty collage of dance film, vintage footage and interviews with well-known Canadian actors, athletes and musicians, this myth is demystified successfully.

Niche
Australia, 2002 - 10 min.

Producer/director/choreographer: Sue Healey
Sponsors: NSW Ministry of Arts
Dance company: Sue Healey & Co
Dancers: Shona Erskine
Composer: Darrin Verhagen

A dance that inhabits an intimate space – the edge, corner and the places in between.

Be always with us
Finland, 2002, 7 min
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Director: Hanna Haaslahti & Hanna Brotherus

A dance film about commitments of motherhood. Mother tries to define physical boundaries between herself and demands of her children.

Scratch
UK, 2002, 6.5 min.

Director: Shelly Love

Scratch features a character, stuck in time, in her past, in her memories.

Decadence
Norway, 2002, 5 min.

Director: Gavte Hesthagen
Choregraphy: Alex Bourdat

Ever since the dawn of man, history has been repeating itself.

Hyper Alarm Dance
USA, 2002, 4 min

.Director: Michael Cole

A computer animated dance video utilizing Motion-Capture techniques and featuring the choreography, dance and animation skills of former Merce Cunningham dancer Michael Cole.

CLASSICS
16.00 uur, kleine zaal

Enter Achilles
UK 45 minutes

Director : Clara van Gool
Choreography : Lloyd Newson
video label : Dance Videos
executive producer : Bob Lockyer

A DV8 Films production for the BBC in association with RM Arts

A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble out of the jukebox, there is football on the TV, and the eight men lark around, pint glasses in hand. But their blokish fun is balanced on a knife-edge of tension, for beneath the mateyness lurks a disturbing undercurrent of paranoia and insecurity, where weakness is brutally exploited and violence covers up vulnerability.

‘Either I dance or the camera’
17.00 uur, kleine zaal

Host : Ernie Tee
Participants: Eva van Schaik (journalist, documentarymaker), Janica Draisma (choreographer/filmmaker), Clara van Gool (filmdirctor), Henk van der Meulen (producer NPS/componiser)
45 minutes

Fred Astaire’s statement (quote) “Either I dance or the Camera” very aptly summarized the dilemma, that played an important role when the musical film was at it’s peak and during the whole of the dance-film/dance-video history:
To what extent can film or video technology influence a (existing) choreography, and where is the borderline between a so-called registration and a (autonomous) dance-film, respectively dance-video? Generally speaking: how do the two different media relate to each other?
The starting point for this debate is the question whether film and video are ‘exclusively’ suited to register a choreography, aiming to conserve and promote dance; or does the (autonomous) dance-film have enough viability to exist as a film genre in it’s own rights, represented by it’s own platform? Indirectly this also raises the question about what actually is an autonomous dance-film/dance-video.

GERMAN VIDEO DANCE PRIZE WINNERS
18.00 uur, kleine zaal

SK Cultural Foundation Cologne

The SK Cultural Foundation of the Commercial and Savings Bank Cologne has supported the art genre video dance since 1991 and has co-operated with other international organizers and festivals to present the film series “DANCE Stories” and “DANCE Film Nights” as well as specially conceived programs. In 1999 the SK Cultural Foundation arranged and presented the major dance film festival, dance screen 99, in Cologne in collaboration with the IMZ, Vienna. Following the festival, they compiled a cinema program of the competition’s most recent as well as former winning films. This program entitled “dance screen on tour” has been shown throughout Europe, USA and Asia.
Since 1996 the SK Cultural Foundation has been awarding the Video Dance Production Award. The prize is announced internationally and is the first production sponsorship of its kind in Germany for video dance.

Mile ‘O’
Germany, 2000 – 12 minutes

Director: Katrin Oettli
Choreography: Tamara Stuart- Ewing
Realised by the II. German Video Dance Production Award

An experimental video dance film that considers the themes of falling and gravity. In a nightmarish scenario, a dancer discovers her undoing on a steep slope. The filmmakers explore life’s never-ending struggle to achieve and, in so doing, enter into Sisyphus’s world of perpetuity.

Burnt
Germany 1998 - 15 min

Choreographer: Vera Sander
Director: Holgar Gruss
Music: C_Schulz & Hajsch
Dance: Carmen Balochini, Tom Kappler, Sean Stephens
Realised by the I. German Video Dance Production Award

The setting for burnt is the atrium of a cool, modern, office building; a highly polished environment with smooth marbled surfaces and flooring, transparent walls and doors of glass. The choreographer Vera Sander and the filmmaker Holger Gruss, play with power and subjection, self-deception and self-assertion.

Georgia
Germany, 2002, 26 min

. Director: Stephanie Thiersch
Supported by the III. German Video Dance Prize 2000/2001
Performers: Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Luc Dunberry, Jens Münchow, Olivier Schétrit, Damien Jalet, Michal Hirsch, Mathilde Poymiro, Alexandra Naudet

At the crack of dawn, a poet scrawls his vision on utopian love on paper in a café: Georgia. At a Seine quayside she climbs out of the water, but before the poet can touch her, a gust of wind knocks him roughly onto a barge at Pont Neuf. From then on, the ground starts to dissolve beneath his feet.

Talk with :
Annick Vroom and Hans Hof Ensemble.
Host : Ronald Ockhuyzen
19.15 uur, Zaal 2

In this discussion, director Annick Vroom explains what it means to her to be directing Dancers. Especially her close collaboration with the Hans Hof Ensemble will be emphasized. In the past she has had no connection with Dance in particular. Her preference to work with dancers came forth out of the exciting possibilities that dance films seemed to offer. The dancers/choreographers of the Hans Hof describe what it means for them to replace the public by a camera.

In the beginning you will see the following films:

R.I.P. (Rest in Peace)
The Netherlands, 2000 – 9 min.
Director: Annick Vroom
Choreographer: Hans Hof Ensemble
Dans: Andrea Boll, Andreas Denk, Mischa van Dullemen, Klaus Jürgens
Muziek: Rob Hauser
Productie: Egmond Film & TV

After the funeral of their parents, three adult children come together in their parental home. The patterns of behavior that has existed there for years are put to the test as they come to terms with the death of their parents. When the eldest discovers their parents’ hidden life in his father’s desk drawer, the situation gets out of control. Ordr and chaos fuse and everyone goes there own way.

Schluss
The Netherlands, 2001 – 4 min
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Director: Annick Vroom

For many of us a recognizable situation: the relationship is over, but neither of the two (ex-lovers) wants to admit it. Until escaping it seems impossible.

WIM VANDEKEYBUS
20.30 uur, kleine zaal

In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
Belgium, 2002 – 50.45 min
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Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Music: David Byrne

To explain your deepest wishes or desires seems impossible...But in your dreams and sleep, your deepest wishes and fears can be expressed. This film shows a powerful, moving mix of movement,
music, symbol, words and silence, which culminates in an unforgettable closing sequence: the dancers, prone to the floor, exhaust themselves in their attempts to free themselves from gravity.

ARTE FRANCE ADAPTATION
21.45 uur, kleine zaal

Annonciation
France, 2002 – 23.33 min.

Choreograph/director: Angelin Preljocaj
Dancers: Claudia de Smet, Julie Bour
Music: Magnifical- Vivaldi interpreted by Orchestra de Chambre de Lausanne

Annonciation depicts the conception of Mary on stage: the sensual virgin encounters the androgynous and fascinating Archangel Gabriel, who informs her that she is, miraculously, carrying the Messiah in her womb.

SALON
see programme library

WEBDANS 2003
Dance and new media are combined in ‘webdans’: the competition for dance on Internet!

Dance on television or on film, is not the same thing as dance on stage; also dance on Internet is an art form in it’s own rights. The rules and possibilities inherent in Internet open up unknown territory with regard to making dance-films. To give both of these two media – dance and Internet – a new impulse, the NPS (Dutch Public Broadcaster) organizes the biennial Competition ‘Webdans’.
Which artistic opportunities can the combination of Internet and dance present? And what is the potential of ‘webdans’?
The first edition of 2001 resulted in a collection of films and web sites that employ esthetic, technical and ethical properties of Internet for a resolute view on dance.
The winners –Ruben van Leer and Sylvester Lindemulder with the film Karmachine – got the chance to make a dance-film for television. The result – Merkavah – was premiered at the Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Days in Maastricht) in 2002.
The application deadline for ‘webdans’ 2003 is on the 31st July. Applications ought to show ‘an obstinate vision on the relation between movement, image, sound and interactivity’.
All submissions will be placed on www.webdans.nl and will be judged by a jury of experts:
Klazien Brummel (art historian and dance publicist), Krisztina de Chatel (choreographer), Mart Dominicus (dance-film director and advisor), Dick Rijken (lecturer in e-culture) and Koert Mensvoort (media artist and researcher).
The main prize, consisting of the possibility to create a dance project for television and Internet, will again be presented at the Nederlandse Dansdagen in Maastricht 2003.