PRESENTATIONS / INSTALLATIONS

PRESENTATIONS

Meet The Place!
On Friday, September 19, at 18:00

Steve Jackman, programmer of the Dance on Screen festival at The Place, in London, will present examples of films produced for and during the 2002 event. Including: three films made by participants of the Master Class for choreographers, led by Thierry De Mey; One Minute Wanders, extremely short dance films shot in a single unedited take; extracts from Blind 8, dance films made in-camera on Super 8 cine film; and Little White Bird, made by the recipient of the 2001 Production Award, The Place Associate Artist Filmmaker, Shelly Love.

This event is kindly supported by the British Council

ÌÏVING NORTH

Moving North is a project developed in the above described conditions, aiming to bring together filmmakers and choreographers from the five Scandinavian countries and to help promote the concept of video dance. The concept belongs to Magne Antonsen, artistic director of "Ultima Film - Dans for Kamera" dance film festival, who has been invited to present it to the Athenian audience.
The idea of this short tribute sprang out of our wish to present five out of the ten films of Moving North (Tï The House, The Radio Ballet, Rewind, Regin Smiour, While the Cat's Away) surrounded by other productions in order to give the Greek audience an idea of what is happening in the field of video dance up North.

MOVIES
To the house
The Radio Ballet
Rewind
Regin smiour (Une danse ballade)
While the Cat's Away

INSTALLATIONS

installation
Rosas, 40 portraits
2002/54', video-installation for three screens

Director: Boris Van der Avoort
Choreographer: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
Music: Jean Luc Plouvier
Images: 20 years of Rosas archives
Production: Rosas
Belgium

Each dancer brings his or her own past and present and a direction especially for him or her with a different concept and music every time. Archive material and excerpts from films and filmed performances, improvisations in front of the camera. A movement becomes the baton, relayed from one dancer to the next. A small gallery in which twenty years of history, forty different personalities, and twenty years of the history of contemporary dance pass in front of spectators' eyes.

Installation
The morphology of desire
1999/ continuous loop/ video-installation by Robert Arnold

An experimental exploration of the commodified representation of romantic love in popular culture, and the relationship between the still and moving image, using digital image morphing to animate romance novel cover illustrations as a dance of unrealized desire, presented as a continuous loop.

Installation
For the glory of the wind and the water
2003 / 10'

Two-screen installation
Director: Constantinos Hadzinicolaou, Kine group
Choreographer: Ioanna Toumbakari
Music: Clara Rockmore, Tchaikovsky (Valse Sentimentale)
Photography: Ivan Vountidis
Editing: Constantinos Nikolakakis
Performer: Ioanna Toumbakari
Sets: Vassilis Noulas, Efi Siafa
Costumes: Katerina Sperentzou
Production co-ordination: Phaedra-Aggeliki Papadopoulou
Production: Kine group
Greece

"Last night you talked to me about a machine.
A process.
Which would enable someone to get into a booth
- a kind of phone booth - decompose into
radio rays and project themselves into another booth,
where a reverse process would recompose them.
Moreover...
You imagined that, whenever you felt like it, and
for a specific period of time, you could
recompose into the form of your choice.
You pictured yourself flying over Mount Hymettus,
getting your wings wet in the sea.
And then going back in order to decompose.
Yet, would the eagle want to get back into the booth?"

Yorgos B. Makris [1964?]