Perth Screen Dance 2017 | Exhibition Guide

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PERTH SCREEN DANCE

The second annual open call and juried exhibition of single-channel screen dance by UK and international artists, film-makers and choreographers – and for the first time open to students – with three museum acquisition awards for the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art Selected by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova, Peter Royston and Andy Wood

Part of the third annual Perth Dance Festival and Encore – the latest quarterly exhibition about the relationship of contemporary visual and performing arts at Threshold artspace

1& 2 June 2017 1. It Tastes Like You Joseph Lee (Hong Kong) 6:43

An abstract tale about cooking and taste, memories and emotions, daily routines and solitude.

2. Pacing Juliette Machado (USA) 5:09 featuring Bellingham Repertory Dance company A series of movement solos in a distressed environment playing with obscuring and revealing its subjects with a score composed on set.

3. Pilgrimage Marlene Millar (Canada) 10:38

Nine dancers and singers travel across open farmlands, parched roads, and moonlit fields to find refuge in an abandoned place of worship.

4. Just So Amy Seiwert (USA) 8:38

A morality play exploring anticipation and the 1970s.

5. Some Stories Are True That Never Happen Renata Sheppard (USA) 6:11

Invited by the distant sound of a cello, a young boy navigates a series of rooms, meeting iconic figures and everyday people in Turin, Italy.

6. The Indexical Dance-a-Thon! Evann Siebens (Canada) 4:15

A guide to shooting dance using film, collage and text referencing Yvonne Rainer’s‘NO Manifesto’ and William Forsythe’s alphabet of movement.

7. Amuse Rob I Jpelaar (The Netherlands) 6:30

A restaurant full of people who are having a good time. They’re chatting and paying attention to each other. At least, that’s what it seems...

8. Migration Daphna Mero (USA) 13:31

A young immigrant woman is waiting to see the officer in-charge of her case – a dehumanizing process executed by an indifferent bureaucratic machine.

9. Exquisite Corps Mitchell Rose (USA) 5:49 42 American contemporary choreographers link together on a chain love letter to dance.

10. Litany Lauren Hafner Addison (USA) 6:03

Originally a performance for the stage, this work evolved into an abstract film about memory using repetitive movements and photography.

It is somewhat of a cliche to describe the selection process in film festivals as incredibly difficult but within the screen dance world it is exacerbated by the diversity of approaches and cultural voices leading to the feeling that one is trying to compare a banana with an orange. Of course, the films were scored on a range of criteria but this sometimes didn’t express the pull of a work that was irresistibly attractive in its directorial voice. In the end when the last few choices had to be made the short list programme here was selected on the possibility that a diverse range of voices would be represented from across the world and that we shouldn’t always latch on to a gratuitous high production look but allow something that you wouldn’t normally experience to insert itself gently into your world and make you feel different. Simon Fildes

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PERTH SCREEN DANCE 1. Haud Close Tae Me Eve McConnachie (UK) 4:27

A duet between a young ballerina and a 65-year-old dancer, inspired by a poem by Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay, who narrates it in Scots-English.

2. 327 Omari ‘Motion’ Carter, Chafic Saad and Shae Carroll (UK) 3:19

New York meets London through a combination of dubstep, dance and drone to create a dymanic yet sombre film.

3. The Space Between My Eyes and the Back of My Head Paul Henry (UK) 4:20 A duet in a ruined farm. Are they dancing, or remembering? Have they been there before?

4. Movement in Progress Chih Peng Lucas Kao (UK) 3:00

An experimental documentary unfolds as we follow Kai, a Taiwanese dancer based in Glasgow, moving for the 12th time in 2 years.

5. Stop Gap in Stop Motion Stephen Featherstone (UK) 4:40

Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life until the whole company meet and perform in unison.

6. Closure Alex Kozobolis (UK) 2:29 Official music video for and by Alex Kozobolis.

7. To the Ends of the Fingertips Roswitha Chesher (UK) 3:11

A visually rich and surreal tale about slipping through the fingers of time and the search for freedom and fulfilment.

8. Moving Southwark Jevan Chowdhury (UK) 5:29

A magical realist expression of London’s medieval backyard by 24 dancers, each consumed by the city.

1. Hone Hazel Black (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) 2:49

An abstract solo for the camera exploring motion in close proximity by revealing the intimacy of a dancer’s relationship with her body and movement.

2. Dominique Mason Chapello (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) 4:41

A dark comedy about a woman frustrated with the societal expectations instilled by the American doll industry.

3. Phosphenes Yifei Liu (The University of Bath, UK) 3:36

A study of phosphenes – a phenomemon induced by movement or sound when we experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye.

4. Three on Four Marty Buhler (The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) 3:41 A re-imagination of sound and movement without a corporeal, dancing body.

5. 2-28 Florent Schwartz (Le Marchepied, Lausanne, Switzerland) 5:20

Embracing painting as a form of dancing and choreography as a sculptural gesture depicting an annual political protest on 28 February in Taiwan.

6. Contaction Gabriel Williams (USA) 8:00

A trio of dancers embody the universal physical experiences of intimacy, vulnerability and the power of touch.

7. This is Not Magritte Ivan Skorik (Moscow Film School, Russia) 5:54 A story inspired by René Magritte’s paintings.

8. Grand Theft Katie William Hodson (The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, Dundee, UK) 7:14 Drawing from different video gaming platforms to explore players interaction from a character’s perspective.

9. Caminatore Angela Challis (The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) 4:59 The places that we have been and the memories that we have are what make us who we are.

#Encore @HorsecrossPerth @iliyananedkova | horsecross.co.uk | facebook.com/groups/thresholdartspace ENCORE is a series of public events and an exhibition of moving image works by Scotish and international artists changing longside our favourite local and national festivals of dance and drama, music and movement, including Perth Dance Festival!

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PERTH SCREEN DANCE is an ongoing partnership between Horsecross Arts, Perth Dance Festival and GOAT Media.

Please note that a small part of the ENCORE exhibition may occasionally be interrupted due to the public nature of the Threshold artspace. To ensure your visit is fully rewarding, please contact us in advance or book yourself a Coffee, Croissant and Art curator’s tour available on selected Wednesdays.

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