The five-year-old and always indeterminate VideoDance is still growing, and the cycle initiated last year is now expanding.
Curiosity leads it once again to encounters - encounters that open up dialogues.
Where there are no limits any more but only a recollection of what once was visual and performance arts and cinema, there, in this small meeting point, the most exotic experiments with all kinds of materials emerge. It is for these that VideoDance provides space and a framework of action, lending them its structure. And it is in this little space that travelers are meeting once again this year; those who are going to make a unique work, exclusively for the VideoDance public, with those who are bringing their experiments along in their suitcases or in their little laptops, and those who have been travelling for years before arriving here in order to share their luggage with us.
Many have only one film in their luggage, a film destined to travel without an end and to be shown without an end. "Journey," "encounter," "exhibition": these are the materials the VideoDance Festival is made of - and of course, "celebration", let us not forget that.

VideoDance is happening in the city, and the simple fact that it is happening is our thesis regarding current aesthetic. Our presence contributes to urban culture by bringing to the surface what is happening silently and underneath the surface in cities, a threat binding together Kinkaleri, Fanny & Alexander, Juan Kruz and Joanna, Mitchell Akiyama, Tina Frank and Ramon Bauer, Scanner, Lina Selander, Stephanie Thiersch, Gianluca, James, Dimitri, and the groups active in the city: The Switch Project, Free Piece of Tape and the Bios group.

No matter which way they choose in order to express themselves - after all none of them are able to clearly classify their work in a specific category (it is precisely from that area, which is neither here nor there, that VideoDance draws its material from, anyway). What is important is that they all have their eyes set on the hard surface of reality in order to draw from it the material that they are going to transform into something else, as if they were dreaming it.
Opening its doors to travelers and guests from all of those areas and to their experiments, VideoDance2004 welcomes its public to yet another adventure and wishes that the encounters to take place be real.

I warmly thank all the friends, "complices associés", supporters, and passers-by of VideoDance2004.

Christiana Galanopoulou
VideoDance
Artistic Director