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Bringing dance films to a wider public and providing
exposure beyond the festival circuit for dance in film
and video is the motivation for dance screen on tour.
This unique, non-profit and entirely non-commercial
initiative was created in 1999 by IMZ in association
with the SK Culture Foundation, Cologne.
Following on from the successful dance screen 99 and
dance screen 2000, the winning productions as well as
a selection of former dance screen highlights will tour
various cities in Europe.
The on-tour programme will be offered to festival
organisers who want to include dance films in their line up.
Requests from Freiburg, Weimar, Tallinn and Bucharest are
among the early enquiries about the initiative. This year’s
programme, on the heels of last year’s success, will feature
David Hinton’s dance screen award winner Birds and the
following nominated and/or winning productions: Short Cut,
Zummel, Captives 2nd movement, Moment and Zikr.
IMZ and the SK Culture Foundation would like to thank the
Arts Council of England, NPS Hilversum, RM Associates,
Kaeja Dance, Heure Exquise!, Katrina McPherson, Marc
Noyons,
Uni France, Pascal Magnin, Lux Distribution and Czech
Television for their kind and generous support.
For further information visit the IMZ web site at
www.imz.at
1. dance screen 2000 – the winners
(59 minutes)
Birds
Short Cut
Zummel
Captives 2nd movement
Moment
Zikr
2. Highlights I
Prize-winning productions of former dance screen festivals
(70 minutes)
Rosa
Enter Achilles
Birds
England 2000, Director: David Hinton, 10 min.
Screen choreography dance screen Award 2000
Imagine a dance film without dancers, yet filled
with fascinating movement. Through film editing,
music and choreographer’s perception, the unre-
hearsed, natural movement of birds becomes an
exhilarating dance experience.
Jury Citation:
A talented filmmaker’s unique vision through which
we see our world in a new way. David Hinton creates
a refreshingly beautiful celebration of natural movement.
Many joyful human emotions are evoked in this film:
love, beauty, humour and spiritual flight.
All the elements we were looking for in a dance film
surprisingly were there.
Short Cut
Netherlands 1999, Director: Jellie Dekker,
Choreography: Hans van Manen, Dance Company:
Nederlands Dans Theater, 15 min
Stage/Studio recording (nomination dance screen 2000)
Anyone wanting to say anything about dance in the
Netherlands can’t avoid mentioning Hans van Manen.
In “Short Cut” a man (Mario Radacovsky) confronts
three woman in turn.
They portray the loves in his life, but are also three
top dancers form NDT1: Cora Bos-Kroese in white,
who is in search of something, the graceful Elke
Schepers in golden yellow and the passionate Fiona
Lummis in red. The smooth transitions make “Short Cut”
a continuous duet.
The subdued movements are powerful, clear and never
superfluous. The ‘shorter route’ proves itself.
Canada 1999, Director: Allen Kaeja, Mark Adam, Choreography:
Allen Kaeja, Dance Company: Kaeja d’Dance, 7 min.
Camera re-work (Special Jury mention dance screen 2000)
“Zummel”, choreographed by Allen Kaeja, is inspired by the stage
version commissioned by NorrDans (Sweden), and deals with the
first day of families uprooted from their homes during World War II.
Through stark contrast and featureless landscapes, the balance
between community and personal flight to safety is highlighted
through six individuals’ struggle for day-to-day existence.
Jury Citation:
Beautiful and dramatic re-staging of a work in an extraordinary location.
CAPTIVES 2nd movement
France 1999, Director: Nicole & Norbert Corsino, Choreography:
Nicole & Norbert Corsino, 13 min
Best Screen Choreography dance screen 2000
Like reversed Antigones, they follow their circular route from the
West to the East. They are unique or multiple and you won’t divert them,
hardly get a chance to meet their eye, never reach them.
Their battles are inner ones and yet they will throw them in your face.
They know their way; no one else can see their horizon.
Jury Citation:
For the creation of a Digital Dramaturgy in which traditional narrative
values exist within an entirely virtual universe. For the integration of
design and choreography in which we believe in the dance.
Moment
UK 1999, Director: Katrina McPherson, Choreography: Paula Hampson,
7 min Best Screen Choreography dance screen 2000
Two women in a space. They are dancing. Their relationship moves
through different moods and states. Their characters are gradually
revealed through fragments of action. The significance of a moment,
whether solitary or between them, is explored as time is slowed down,
stretched, speeded up, repeated and stopped.
The narrative is subtle and intriguing, suggested rather than explained,
impressionistic rather than literal. “Moment” was made in memory of
the dancer and filmmaker Michele Fox.
Jury Citation:
For poetic simplicity in which the structure of the choreography is
revealed through the skillful editing.
Zikr
Netherlands, 1999, Director: Jos de Putter, Clara van Gool, 7 min
Best Documentary dance screen 2000
This short dance film by Clara van Gool is based on footage from the
documentary “The Making of a New Empire”, filmed in Grozny,
Chechnya 1998.
“The Zikr dance dates back to our forefathers, times long past.
The era of Gilany, son of Abdul Kady....
The Zikr has survived the times of Genghis Kahan, of Timur the Lame,
of Bogatyrev and of Potemkin...
Thanks to the Zikr, in which we speak of God and the prophet, the Sage
and the Saints, we have overcome them all.”
Jury Citation:
A jewel of non-verbal story-telling that shows humanity against a
background of destruction. It is a tough and spare statement of the
survival of a tradition.
dance screen on tour – Highlights I
Prize-winning dance films and videos from previous dance
screen competitions.
Presented by the SK Culture Foundation and the IMZ. (70 min.)
Rosa
Belgium 1992, Director: Peter Greenaway, Choreography:
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, 20 min.
dance screen Award 1992
In the magnificent foyer of the Gent Opera, Peter Greenaway
captures with his camera a man (Nordine Benchorf) and a woman
(Fumiyo Ikeda) waiting for and meeting each other.
Enter Achilles
United Kingdom 1996, Director: Clara van Gool, Choreography:
Lloyd Newson, Dance Comp.: DV8 Physical Theatre, 50 min.
Best Camera Re-work 1996
DV8 place eight men in a pub for a night and play the thin line
between reality and fantasy – and ask you to tell the difference.
We accept that men have historically oppressed women, but how
oppressive have they been to themselves and one another?
Netherlands, 1999, Director: Jos de Putter, Clara van Gool, 7 min
Best Documentary dance screen 2000
This short dance film by Clara van Gool is based on footage from the
documentary “The Making of a New Empire”, filmed in Grozny,
Chechnya 1998.
“The Zikr dance dates back to our forefathers, times long past.
The era of Gilany, son of Abdul Kady....
The Zikr has survived the times of Genghis Kahan, of Timur the Lame,
of Bogatyrev and of Potemkin...
Thanks to the Zikr, in which we speak of God and the prophet, the Sage
and the Saints, we have overcome them all.”
Jury Citation:
A jewel of non-verbal story-telling that shows humanity against a
background of destruction. It is a tough and spare statement of the
survival of a tradition.
dance screen on tour – Highlights I
Prize-winning dance films and videos from previous dance
screen competitions.
Presented by the SK Culture Foundation and the IMZ. (70 min.)
Rosa
Belgium 1992, Director: Peter Greenaway, Choreography:
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, 20 min.
dance screen Award 1992
In the magnificent foyer of the Gent Opera, Peter Greenaway
captures with his camera a man (Nordine Benchorf) and a woman
(Fumiyo Ikeda) waiting for and meeting each other.
Enter Achilles
United Kingdom 1996, Director: Clara van Gool, Choreography:
Lloyd Newson, Dance Comp.: DV8 Physical Theatre, 50 min.
Best Camera Re-work 1996
DV8 place eight men in a pub for a night and play the thin line
between reality and fantasy – and ask you to tell the difference.
We accept that men have historically oppressed women, but how
oppressive have they been to themselves and one another?