Screendance Festival
Still from Cayetana Vidal's piece called "Tao."
Moving Away from the Margins: The 10th Anniversary of the Screendance Festival
Ellen Bromberg, Distinguished Professor of Modern Dance at the University of Utah, has been instrumental in introducing students, academics, and the general population to the genre of “screendance,” defined as “dance on screen rather than onstage.” A celebrated choreographer, filmmaker, media designer, curator, and educator, as well as a former dancer and choreographer with Utah’s Repertory Dance Theatre, Bromberg has had a clear vision for what she feels the festival has promoted: “work that, at the time (1999), hadn’t been seen here before.” 30 STUDIO / 2016
As the U hosted its 10th international Screendance Festival, Bromberg said the event represented a welcomed paradigm shift in the way departments and disciplines collaborate to understand the changing cultural, academic, and social characteristics of the arts in the 21st century. In 2010, the Departments of Modern Dance and Film & Media Arts worked seamlessly together to create a certificate that allows graduate students from both disciplines to access coursework previously unavailable to each other, bringing interdisciplinarity front and center.