Cinedans programme 2004

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Winner by audience vote:
'Peepshow' by Robert DeLeskie

Jury Nominations:
Last Dance, Uzes Quintet, Line Dance, When I am Little Again,
Peepshow, Burst, Portrait, Urge

Jury members 2004:

Coleen Davis
Coleen Davis was born in the USA. She danced with Het Nationale Ballet from 1977-2000, where she became a prima ballerina. During her career she received many awards and since retiring she has been a highly-regarded member of various dance committees and boards. Coleen is married with three children.

Tim Persent
Tim Persent trained with the Rambert Ballet School in London and danced for many years with De Rotterdamse Dansgroep. He has also worked with Krisztina de Châtel, Paul Selwyn Norton, Samuel Würsten, Johan Greben, Ton Simons, Brenda Daniels, Michael Schumacher and Roland Shankula. He is a regular dancer with Leine & Roebana. In 1993, he was awarded the. Reciepent of 1993 Zilveren Theaterdansprijs en Golden Swan 2004.

John Appel
John Appel has been working as a freelance documentary maker and cameraman since he graduated from the Filmacademie in 1987. He has made over 30 documentaries, including 3 for the cinema. In 1999, he won the Joris Ivens Award, at the IDFA, for the film 'André Hazes/ Zij gelooft in mij'. Recently, he won the prize for best director, at the Infinity Film Festival in Italy, for the film 'The last victory' (in the cinema in August 2004).
He is a guest teacher at the Filmacademie and the Media-academie, an ex-adviser for Filmfonds and Stifo, and was a jury member for the Joris Ivens Competition at the IDFA 2000.

Mart Dominicus
Filmmaker (and director of the two dance films 'P' and 'BLINDSIDE BLOCK'), critic, and artistic adviser for the Nederlands Fonds voor de Film.

Thursday the 8th of July 2004, 16.00 hrs
Presentation workshop Mediamatic
Location: Mediamatic, Oosterdokskade 5, 5th floor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Time :16.00 hours
telephone: 020-6389901

Saturday 10th of July 2004
Theater De Balie Leidseplein, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10( tram 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 en 10)

filmdescriptions:
GROTE ZAAL

Burst (Iceland) 5 min.
A couple fights in their bedroom over a burst water pipe. Techniques involving water tank explosions and trampolines. References; martial arts and cartoon strips.
Director: Reynir Lyngdal Choreographer: Katrin Hall Dancers: Kata Johnson, Elías Knudsen Music: Bix Producer: Anna Dís Olafsdóttir Produced by: Saga Film

On a Wing and a Prayer (2003 Australian) 6 min.
A Powerfull duet for two women,featuring yoga influenced virtuosic movement.It depicts the private meditations of a young nun.Her reverie begins when her secret mucic box opens.
Director/Choreographer: Narelle Benjamin Dancers: Kathy Cogill, Clare Holland ,Narelle BenjaminComposer: Huey Benjamin Producer: Huey Benjamin

Left or right for love? (2003 British) 7 min.
Float in the moat of your milky thoughts. Puzzle it out and dreams may spout. Stillness after chaos.....and bliss comes down in a box.
Director: Magali Charrier Choreographer: Maria Lloyd Dancers: Maria Lloyd & Gerard Bell Composer: Lizzy Carey
Winner of best experimental animation 2003 - FAN International Animation Festival, UK.

Urge (Denmark)
Four dancers - one room.
This film is dance for camera in a pure and subtle form. Two classical and two modern dancers perform in a rhythm created somewhere between movement, music, framing and editing. Director and choreographer: Ulrik Wivel Dancers: Amy Watson, Mads Langstrup, Mary Lise Tanvet, Edhem Jesenkovic Music: Tobias Wilner, Blue Foundation Producer: Vibeke Vogel Produced by: BAROK Film

Last Dance (2002 USA) 83 min.
Description: \"Powerhouse creative forces unite, and sparks fly, in Mirra Bank\'s award-winning feature documentary. LAST DANCE tracks the innovative, iconoclastic Pilobolus Dance Theatre and legendary author-illustrator, Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are).
Director: Mirra Bank Choreographer: Robby Barnett, Michael Tracy, Jonathan Wolken, Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorkins Dancers: Rebecca Anderson, Otis Cook. Josie Coyoc, Matt Kent, Gaspard Louis, Benjamin Pring Producer: Mirra Bank & Vic Losick
Shortlisted for Academy Award nomination, 2002; presented by the Academy in its \"Contemporary Documentaries, 2003-2004\" series of best feature docs of previous year

The God (2003 Russia) 4 min.
Three line synopsis: Even a god might have to reincarnate to get rid of a pesky fly.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit Composer: Valentin Vasenkov Producer: Sergey Selyanov, Alexander Boyarsky

In Crescendo (2001 Spain) 8 min.
A dance in three parts: sex, dream and hell.
Director: Joan Marimón & Jesús Ramos Choreographer: Marco Barbera Company: Marco Barbera Dancers: Marco Barbera, Pilar Murube Composer: Toni Español, Bola, Beef
Awards in Girona 2002. Vitoria 2002. Best Film and best director in Experimental Film Madrid 2002

Relative Movements (2002 USA) 1 min.
Relative Movements is a 3D animation piece mixed with 2D animation that compares the movements between a ballerina and a martial artist.
Director: Jeremy Cropp Choreographer: Arnott Mader Company: Richmond Ballet Composer: Sound Ideas Producer: Jeremy Cropp

STAND 4:18 (2004 Netherlands) 12 min.
Wij schrijven het jaar 2033, het politieke systeem in Nederland is veranderd onder invloed van de nog grotere wereldmacht die de USA is geworden. De meerderheid van de bevolking heet "Rhythm Slaves".
Director/Choreographer: Sascha Engel Dancers: Mirko Hecktor (Monte Carlo Ballet) & John Taylor Music: Florian Magnus Maier & Remco de Jong Producer: The Kasander Film Company

Down Time Jaz (2003 Australia) 11 min.
A film about a functional family. A delightful and infectious animated dance film, Down Time Jaz is a ferries wheel ride through family life from the point of view of the second child who must save the rest of her family from itself.
Choreographer: Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman
Dancers: Jaz Allen, Sam Allen, Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman
Composer: Amanda Brown Producer: Richard James Allen

Jurynominations:

Uzes Quintet (2004 France) 25 min.
Five choreographers, five worlds, singular body languages. A choreographical breakaway from the stage. A cinematic tale where each of the dancers creates strange echoes with its environment.
Director: Catherine Maximoff Choreographer: Javier de Frutos, Emmanuel Gat, Kitt Johnson, collectif Peeping Tom, Nathalie Pernette et Andreas Schmid
Company: Dancers: Sahar Azimi, Yossi Berg, Moshe Cohen, Yaniv Cohen, Emanuel Gat, Yaniv Mitzahi, Niv Shenfeld, Yoni Suthi / Emmanuel Gat / Kitt Johnson / Gabriela Carrizo, Franck Chartier, Simon Versnel / Nathalie Pernette, Sébastien Laurent

Line dance (2003 UK) 5min.
An animation short created with 24 cameras.
Director/Producer: Alex Reuben

When I am Little Again (2003 USA) 6 min
Motion captured, animated figures inhabit a surreal world of ancestral memory. This virtual family reunion is a tribute to Dr. Janusz Korscak.
Director: Kareen Balsam Choreographer: Kareen Balsam
Dancers: Kareen Balsam, Craig Brant, Tiffany Cunningham, Sean Kessler
Composer: Alexander Borodin, Brain Casey, Steven Greenman, Felix Mendelssohn Choreographer: Kareen Balsam
Virtual Environments and Animation by Vita Berezina-Blackburn

Peep Show (2001 Canada) 4 min.
Inside the absurdist world of a peep show, a couple pay to watch an unusual courtship ritual to unfold, whre the performers' first tentative touches lead to an increasingly competative game of "slaps." The game takes a serious turn when a hand crosses the line...
Director : Robert DeLeskie Performers: David Danzon, Sylvie Bouchard Producer: Kate Kung

Burst en Urge see description above

Portrait (Finland) 5 min.
A married couple struggle in a portrait photographer’s studio. Tragicomic about facade and the harsh reality in a relationship.
Director/Choreographer: Saara Cantell Dancers: Turo Mustakallio, Mirja Tukiainen Music: Pekka Karjalainen Producer: Outi Rousu

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KLEINE ZAAL

Kid Bang (2003 USA) 13 min
A super-stylized urban fairytale set against the gritty, dangerous world of underground dance contests. A blistering fusion of Western and Eastern dance and culture, arresting visuals, and a winning love story.
Director: Kiran Ramchandran / Choreographer Jordi Caballero

Dancing Las Vegas (Canada 2004) 10 min.
Dancers working in Las Vegas are often looked down as merely “Showgirls” or as having compromised their profession in order to work and pay the bills. Yet many are well-trained professionals with substantial dance resumes and careers. Why do they choose to work in Vegas, and are they selling out their integrity?
Director: Evann Siebens with Yannis Adoniou

Pretty Big dig (Canada 2001) 4 min.
A dance film that gently illustrates the assimilation of technology.
Choreographer/Director/ Producer : Anne Troake Composer: Justin Hayes

Still You (Netherlands 1993) 9 min.
The speedy 'pas de deux' in Still You takes place at a long table. At each side there is a performer. Between them is a tea cup which acts as a catalyst. Film director Mijke de Jong has successfully exploited the playful and inventive aspects of the performance by Suzy Blok en Christopher Steel.
Still You won first prize in the category 'Best Production for Camera' in the IMZ Dance Screen Festival 1994.

Tus Ojos Negros (Netherlands 2000) 9 min.
A film about memories, atmosphere and love, with a central role for the tango. Mely, a woman in her eighties, is standing in her room in front of a rack of dresses. She hears a long-forgotten song on the radio which awakens memories of her youth…
Up at Down (Netherlands 2003) 26 min.
In 2002, Suzy Blok created the dance performance Looking Up at Down in collaboration with composer/musician Alexander Balanescu. The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad declared it the hit of that year’s summer festival ‘Oerol’. Accompanied by live music on violin, cello and accordion, the performance is set in a locked room where the emotions of four enclosed people flare up high. Co-operating with director Clara van Gool, Blok made an adaptation of the piece for film.

Damen und Herren AB 65 (Germany 2003) 70 min
Documentary of the reconstruction of the piece ‘Contacthof’, made for ladies and gentlemen over 65.
Director/Producer: Lilo Mangelsdorff Choreographer: Pina Bausch

From your Bones & Tangotalks (live act)

Een intermezzo van 10 min. door tekenaar Floor van Keulen, tangodansers René Oey en Gabriëlle Nederend en Neo Tango DJ Marc de Reus.

From your Bones & TangoTalks is een improvisatie van een lichttekenaar op videoscherm, een tangodanspaar op de vloer en een Neotango DJ die (lounge) tango's mixt.

From your Bones & TangoTalks is een co productie van Grand Theatre Groningen

SALON

Video Archive and Video Installation in the salon, for description go to archive on this site.

250 videotapes and dvd’s received in 2003 and 2004 are available for viewing.

HULLABALOO (The Netherlands 2003)
Video installation; A woman explores her dual nature animating herself as a horse in the white space of imagination. Meanwhile she encounters a real horse. They recognize and imitate each other.
Susanne Ohmann, Robin Noorda and Ferri Wouters
(Additional filming Hans Rozinga)
(Montevideo/Time Based Arts)