[dance-tech] Re: motion at the edge

   yes, and thank you from a cousin across the ditch;
     shall be over there in the spring, and hope to
link up with others into the gesture, dance, and
techno RF-MIDI sequencer music composing ideas
currently happening...
   please reply to william, email address; 
skyaquaz@xxxxxxxxx
  ciao and cheers     11/26/05

--- "Birringer, Johannes"
<johannes.birringer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hello all;
> 
> 
> last night I witnessed an unusual opening, right in
> midst of a rainy windswept dark countryside in a
> small village called Long Buckby (Northamptonshire):
>  "Motion at the edge", a program of
> dance/video/performance screenings, curated by Anna
> Douglas, having its premiere in an old building that
> used to be the Assembly Hall, a chapel-like
> architecture with beautiful wooden floorpanels and a
> magical ambience, except that these historical
> Assembly Rooms are now the house of an architect,
> who opens his private living room up for 5 weeks,
> exhibiting a collection of unusual films which, at
> first sight, look not at all like dancevideos or
> videodance. 
> 
> The artists included are:
> 
> Rosemary Butcher/Martin Otter, "Vanishing Point"
> Gina Czarnecki  "Infected"
> Chris. Dugrenier,  "Ascendance"  [with Aerobatic
> pilot Julian Murfitt]
> David Hinton, "Birds"
> Grace Ndiritu,  "Arrested Development"
> Katharina Mayer, "Romanz"
>  
> 
> Not all of these screen-works are new, "Romanz" for
> example dates back to 2000, the others are more
> recent, but they have been re-worked or are now
> re-sited (having moved from earlier video or film
> installations to a single screen projection). The
> new context in which they are seen now, in this old
> but renovated architecture of the private-public
> house, and the constellation of a program that
> conjoins these very different films, provides room
> for discussion, especially if "dance" here is really
> not foregrounded or even perceivable in the manner
> in which we may tend to think of dance for the
> camera or videodance. 
> 
> I know that are many here on this list who are
> interest in dance and film, i wish i could tell you
> more about what i felt last night, observing the
> cinematic choreographies of these different artists
> and artist-collaborators. There is no website, so I
> can only take my memories with me from the village,
> meeting all these fine people there last night,
> chatting with the filmmakers and guests, laughing
> along with the pilot, who explained his maneuvers to
> me (he first visualizes his aerial aerobatic
> movement sequences on the ground, so the filmmaker
> starts off with Murfitt rehearsing - in a green
> meadow - how he will fly the plane..... Then the
> film shifts upward, and "flies" into the air and
> becomes an aerial dance itself....   
> 
> The other remarkable work, along with Grace
> Ndiritu's curious and subtle ritual performance,
> only her feet visible in the dark, a tiny fire
> burning on the ground,  is Gina Czarnecki's equally
> strangely mesmerizing digitally-modified spiralling
> body (danced by Iona Kewney), a dance - illusory
> filmed motion -  that cannot be, but is generated
> digitally and thus moves like dance, and yet, even
> if moving impossibly, becomes utterly direct, naked
> and close, as well as poetic, far out (in the
> current worlds of hybrids, bioarttech and
> genetically engineered creaturegamelandscapes) and
> not easily graspable, interpretable.
> 
> Go and see the show if you are in the UK.
> 
> Those of you coming to Nottingham at the end of year
> to attend the Digital Cultures Lab and Symposium
> (www.digitalcultures.org) -- - we may be able to get
> the Arts Council England (who underwrites this
> exhibition) to let us screen the works again at that
> occasion.
> 
> regards
> Johannes Birringer
> www.digitalcultures.org
> 
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