A Dance/Video workshop with Nadine Patterson & Bernadette Walong
Collaborations between filmmakers and dancers/choreographers can be a tricky thing. Who is the author of the work, the dancer or the filmmaker? Who is the primary director of the work? Who has the final say on what is shot and how? How can you use the strengths of both artistic disciplines to make something that is more than just a ‘filmed dance’? In this workshop you will meet a filmmaker who loves dance and a dancer who loves film. Please join us for an intensive workshop where we strive to answer some of these questions and shed light on a very import subject: how to capture the power of dance through cinema.
Before each workshop session, from 6:30pm to 7pm we will show work by Ms. Patterson and Ms. Walong as well as shorts by other dance filmmakers. In the workshop from 7pm to 9 pm we will explore techniques such as in camera editing and editing as a form of choreography; narrative versus collage as a way of constructing dance film outlines; shooting dance performance; planning for dance film productions; cultural perspectives in framing, lighting, and editing for film; incorporating video into dance performance; using live video feeds during performance; aesthetics of photographing and editing dance films; analysing and budgeting equipment and personnel needs for video production and video projection.
Time: 6:30-7pm screenings; 7pm to 9pm workshops Location: Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19104 Dates: Tuesdays April 15, 22; Thursdays April 17, 24 Fees: $10 per class (which includes the screenings); Please contact Nadine Patterson at nadine_patt@earthlink.net to register.
Background of Workshop Instructors Bernadette Walong is an independent choreographer based in Sydney, Australia working within dance, theatre, education, commercial and film and, lectures part-time in Performance at the UWS. (University of Western Sydney) A graduate of NAISDA, she danced with Dance North, Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre and was a former assistant artistic director, choreographer, and dancer with Bangarra Dance Theatre Aust where she co-created the acclaimed signature work, Ochres. (1994) In 2007 she collaborates with Australian cinematographer Cordelia Beresford, as the subject for Portraits of an Unknown Woman, a non-site-specific video & still photography installation. In September 2007 she was awarded the Arts NSW Women & Art Fellowship and will premiere a new work Ground Up! in 2008. She’s featured in short experimental dance films as a choreographer/performer. River Woman an Atom Award winner (Best Experimental Film) with filmmaker Michelle Mahrer and ABC TV screened in October 2006. As soloist in No Surrender, (Physical TV Company) (ABCTV, 2002) an Atom Award winner for Best Experimental, it screened in Slovenia, Italy, Manchester, China, New Zealand and the USA. She was choreographer/performer (and Artistic Consultant) in Moving with the Dreaming by Nadine Patterson. (1997, Philadelphia, USA) with screenings in Chicago, Philadelphia Fest of World Cinema, Harlem Film Fest, Burkina Film Fest (Africa). It won a National Black Programming Consortium’s Prized Pieces Awards in 1997. Bernadette’s created works for The Snuff Puppets Company, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, The Australian Dance Theatre, The Australian Ballet, Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Australian Youth Orchestra, Dance North, the Cuban Combinatorial Danza Company, The Taiwan Institute of the Arts and The Hanoi National Dance. Bernadette has been choreographer in-residence nationally inAustralia, and in Scotland, Cuba, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, India, and New Caledonia. She has performed throughout remote, regional, and capital Australia and in China, Vietnam, Japan, India, the Pacific, Germany, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Israel. She’s danced/collaborated in works by Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewert, Graeme Watson, Nanette Hassell, Richard Allen & Karen Pearlman, Tess De Quincey, Stephen Page, Cheryl Stock, Leigh Warren, Sue Healey, Julie-Anne Long, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, Stephanie Burridge, Csaba Buday and Jane Pirani. Nadine Patterson has worked with dancers on documentary, narrative and experimental film projects. Her films include Release, LickFilm, Moving with the Dreaming, Todo El Mundo Dance! and LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoséBrown. In this workshop she wants to explore the interplay of movement between the filmmaker, dancer, audience and performance space. You can see some of her work at www.youtube.com/hipcinema.Posts: 1226 | Registered: Nov 2005
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