VideoDance Festival started in 2000 in Athens and
Thessaloniki as an international dance film festival, but soon it widened up to include more kinds of experiment on movement and the
moving image.
The festival has counted 7 editions from 2000 to 2007 (not held in 2006).
About VideoDance Festival
VideoDance was a festival presenting the latest experiments on
media and movement or, in other words, at the crossroads of
visual arts, enhanced
cinema and
performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...
.
The screenings, the main festival axis, present a showcase of films from all over the world presented in thematic programmes.
Non-narrative experimental films are being screened along with movement-based films.
As far as it concerns
dance films, programming is focused on the special relationship between movement and the
moving image, both when it is produced as a result of a
choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design ...
for the
camera, and when it is produced by the filmmaker's look on the movement.
Special screenings present archival material on the history of movement and the
moving image as it is preserved on film during the 20th century. Retrospectives like those on the works by
Maya Deren (2003),
Shirley Clarke (2004), or
Ed Emshwiller give the Greek audience an opportunity to contact the first attempts of the experimental
non-narrative cinema to use the movement as its main source.
The live media events zone includes
video-performances,
performances, live improvisation with sound and image, and other experimental art works involving media and
performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...
.
During the festival
video-installations related to the film programme themes are exhibited.
The festival takes place in
Athens, and the film programme is screened in
Thessaloniki right after that.
More about VideoDance Festival
Video Dance was funded and produced since 2000 by the
International Thessaloniki Film Festival, one of the major film institutions in Greece, part of the
Greek Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture and Sports ( el, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού) is the government department of Greece entrusted with preserving the country's cultural heritage, promoting the arts, and overseeing sp ...
.
It was founded and curated by its artistic director, Christiana Galanopoulou.
The festival was non competitive and non-commercial. However, it supported and encouraged the production of dance films in Greece, through a funding scheme, project, exchange.
[http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=681 ] 12 Greek dance films have been co-produced by VideoDance through this scheme.
The festival collaborated with several international
dance film and film festivals, archives and cultural institutions and was a founding member of the Dance and
Media Festivals International Network.
The festival was held in industrial spaces especially re-designed for VideoDance by young architects.
The last edition, VideoDance2007, was held in
Athens and
Thessaloniki in May 2007.
See also
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International Thessaloniki Film Festival
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) is an international documentary festival held every March in Thessaloniki, Greece. TDF, founded in 1999, features competition sections and ranks among the world's leading documentary festivals. Since 20 ...
*
MIRfestival www.mirfestival.gr
References
External links
VideoDance- official website
- official website
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Dance festivals in Greece
Film festivals in Greece
Recurring events established in 2000
Annual events in Thessaloniki
Annual events in Athens
Festivals in Thessaloniki
Festivals in Athens
Music in Thessaloniki
Music in Athens