Perth Screen Dance | Exhibition Guide
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artspace artspace Threshold artspace | Horsecross Arts | Perth Concert Hall Mill Street | Perth | PH1 5HZ | Scotland | 0044 (0) 1738 621 031 | [email protected] | www.horsecross.co.uk Open Mon to Sat | 10am-5pm or late on performance evenings admission free Threshold artspace Bold contemporary art by Scottish and international artists in Perth since 2005 FREE Exhibition Guide PERTH SCREEN DANCE The first open call and juried exhibition of single-channel screen dance by UK and international artists, film-makers and choreographers as part of the second annual Perth Dance Festival and Stage – the latest quarterly exhibition of contemporary art at Threshold artspace Selected by Simon Fildes, Gitta Wigro, Iliyana Nedkova, Wyn Pottratz, Peter Royston and Andy Wood 10 May 2016 1. The Touch Diaries Lisa May Thomas (UK) 14:45 Can we feel ‘connected’ when we are alone and isolated? How do our bodies retain the memory of touch? How do we touch the spaces and places we inhabit? These were some of questions that sparkled this new research into diary studies, its movement language and storytelling. 2. End of the Block Kyle Stevenson (UK) 5:29 featuring choreography by Omari ‘Motion’ Carter This is a film that combines live dance with stickman animation to create a very compelling piece that illustrates the harsh realities of trying to go beyond your postcode. 3. Cardboard Season Clare Schweitzer (UK) 5:29 A meditation on destructive progress and progressive destruction...with piñatas. 4. Above the Light Heike Salzer and Jack Laidlaw (UK) 5:39 This music video is a movement exploration on a rooftop against the backdrop of sun set and city lights. 5. Maze Eve McConnachie (UK) 6:03 featuring choreography by Sophie Laplane Two young people discover each other as they explore a labyrinthine derelict Glasgow swimming pool. A high-energy contemporary dance piece. Featuring music by British-born, Boston-based electro musician John Xela. 6. Basics Monika Smekot (UK) 5:34 A work that slowly zooms in at a story of three people (perhaps connected). The blurry shapes become sharpen and the chaotic passing through the screen lead to a unison. Scattered thoughts and fragments of a conversation meet in one final sentence… 7. Thread Christine Devaney (UK) 7:23 A man enters a dark room disturbing a fragile memory waiting within. Threads of narrative entwine in this mysterious film, enriched by a haunting score from David Paul Jones. Dreams of spun gold and idolatry. A desire to be whole and held.The past as embers or is it snow? 8. Dancing City Ailsa-Mary Gold and Dougie Irvine (UK) 5:23 A Culture 2014 project nspired by the perpetual motion of the City and those in it. Featuring over 200 Glasgow citizens from window cleaners to cyclists to parents with buggies who worked with a team of artists to explore individual and collective journeys; creating the possibility for all of us to view seemingly ordinary things in new ways. “It is somewhat of a cliche to describe the selection process in film festivals as incredibly difficult but within the screen dance world it is exacerbated by the diversity of approaches and cultural voices leading to the feeling that one is trying to compare a banana with an orange. It’s often a matter of taste pitched against years of experience of watching work. So it was with the first Perth Screen Dance awards. 116 entries from dozens of countries exploring experimental film making, narrative dance theatre, high quality animation, modern choreography and classic ballet, high budget to no budget, the task was always going to be tough and the selection process often fell back on gut feelings, physical and visceral responses, and just plain wonderment. Of course, the films were scored on a range of criteria but this sometimes didn’t express the pull of a work that was irresistibly attractive in its directorial voice. Something that lingered in the mind and made you want to go back to it. In the end when the last few choices had to be made the short list programme here was selected on the possibility that a diverse range of voices would be represented from across the world and that we shouldn’t always latch on to a gratuitous high production look but allow something that you wouldn’t normally experience to insert itself gently into your world and make you feel different.” Simon Fildes
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The first open call and juried exhibition of single-channel screen dance by UK and international artists, film-makers and choreographers as part of the second annual Perth Dance Festival and Stage – the latest quarterly exhibition of contemporary art at Threshold artspace | Selected by Simon Fildes, Gitta Wigro, Iliyana Nedkova, Wyn Pottratz, Peter Royston and Andy Wood | 10 May 2016
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Threshold artspace | Horsecross Arts | Perth Concert Hall Mill Street | Perth | PH1 5HZ | Scotland | 0044 (0) 1738 621 031 | [email protected] | www.horsecross.co.uk
Open Mon to Sat | 10am-5pm or late on performance eveningsadmission free
Threshold artspaceBold contemporary art by Scottish and international artists in Perth since 2005
FREE Exhibition Guide
PERTH SCREEN DANCE The first open call and juried exhibition of single-channel screen dance by UK and international artists, film-makers and choreographers as part of the second annual Perth Dance Festival and Stage – the latest quarterly exhibition of contemporary art at Threshold artspaceSelected by Simon Fildes, Gitta Wigro, Iliyana Nedkova, Wyn Pottratz, Peter Royston and Andy Wood
10 May 2016 1. The Touch Diaries Lisa May Thomas (UK) 14:45Can we feel ‘connected’ when we are alone and isolated? How do our bodies retain the memory of touch? How do we touch the spaces and places we inhabit? These were some of questions that sparkled this new research into diary studies, its movement language and storytelling.
2. End of the Block Kyle Stevenson (UK) 5:29 featuring choreography by Omari ‘Motion’ CarterThis is a film that combines live dance with stickman animation to create a very compelling piece that illustrates the harsh realities of trying to go beyond your postcode.
3. Cardboard Season Clare Schweitzer (UK) 5:29A meditation on destructive progress and progressive destruction...with piñatas.
4. Above the Light Heike Salzer and Jack Laidlaw (UK) 5:39 This music video is a movement exploration on a rooftop against the backdrop of sun set and city lights.
5. Maze Eve McConnachie (UK) 6:03 featuring choreography by Sophie LaplaneTwo young people discover each other as they explore a labyrinthine derelict Glasgow swimming pool. A high-energy contemporary dance piece. Featuring music by British-born, Boston-based electro musician John Xela.
6. Basics Monika Smekot (UK) 5:34 A work that slowly zooms in at a story of three people (perhaps connected). The blurry shapes become sharpen and the chaotic passing through the screen lead to a unison. Scattered thoughts and fragments of a conversation meet in one final sentence…
7. Thread Christine Devaney (UK) 7:23 A man enters a dark room disturbing a fragile memory waiting within. Threads of narrative entwine in this mysterious film, enriched by a haunting score from David Paul Jones. Dreams of spun gold and idolatry. A desire to be whole and held.The past as embers or is it snow?
8. Dancing City Ailsa-Mary Gold and Dougie Irvine (UK) 5:23 A Culture 2014 project nspired by the perpetual motion of the City and those in it. Featuring over 200 Glasgow citizens from window cleaners to cyclists to parents with buggies who worked with a team of artists to explore individual and collective journeys; creating the possibility for all of us to view seemingly ordinary things in new ways.
“It is somewhat of a cliche to describe the selection process in film festivals as incredibly difficult but within the screen dance world it is exacerbated by the diversity of approaches and cultural voices leading to the feeling that one is trying to compare a banana with an orange. It’s often a matter of taste pitched against years of experience of watching work. So it was with the first Perth Screen Dance awards. 116 entries from dozens of countries exploring experimental film making, narrative dance theatre, high quality animation, modern choreography and classic ballet, high budget to no budget, the task was always going to be tough and the selection process often fell back on gut feelings, physical and visceral responses, and just plain wonderment. Of course, the films were scored on a range of criteria but this sometimes didn’t express the pull of a work that was irresistibly attractive in its directorial voice. Something that lingered in the mind and made you want to go back to it. In the end when the last few choices had to be made the short list programme here was selected on the possibility that a diverse range of voices would be represented from across the world and that we shouldn’t always latch on to a gratuitous high production look but allow something that you wouldn’t normally experience to insert itself gently into your world and make you feel different.” Simon Fildes
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PERTH SCREEN DANCE 9. Globe Trot Mitchell Rose (USA) 4:34 featuring choreography by Bebe Miller An international crowd-sourced dance project, as 50 film-makers on all seven continents each shoot two seconds of a specially choreographed piece.
10. Intrinsic Moral Evil Harm Weistra (The Netherlands) 10:45 featuring choreography by Fernando Domínguez Rincón A tale of identity and coming of age but above all, the three dancers play with the viewer’s perception and expectations. The layered story gradually develops revealing its last secrets just before the end.
11. Let’s Say Fukpakjim (Hong Kong) 8:15 featuring choreography by Li De A refreshing short work that focuses on modern communication issues between people. The generation gap between mother and son; a lovers’ row on the escalator; office politics at the table of the Last Supper. Three scenes, three dances, one message: Stop Phubbing.
12. Snags in Palladio Michele Manzini (Italy) 6:38 Symmetries, Domestic Spaces, Allegories, Thresholds, Measurements.
13. Meeting Places. Scorched Amanda Kapp (USA) 3:50 A site specific choreography that explores returning to spaces that were at one time familiar but have since changed.
14. Abandoned Transits Niurca Marquez (USA/Spain) 5:00 A journey between a body of memories and the body being present. It is both an act of ‘calling out’ to the present and ‘recalling’ the past. A travel in time between where we come from and who we have become in examining how cultural memory lives in geography.
15. Silent Rooms Ran Raviv (Israel) 10:14 Inside the abandoned and magnificent Bet Arza, formerly functioning as a prestigious sanatorium, a young girl moves between rooms and watches dance duets. Peeking inside the rooms, she is exposed to parts of the human existence such as mechanism and flocking, brave friendship and love.
16. Tailored Augenblick (Italy) 1:20 A tailor, his wife: a day like any other. Then she comes in. Suddenly a mistake, a glimpse... one more word and the elbows will touch.The rhythmic gestures of the craft become a dance. The motif on the dress takes the form of a movement that is tailor-made. But this glimpse of desire springing from the line of the mountains falls down after only one minute, like a pin.
17. Crushing Weight Vinícius Cardoso (Brazil) 3:38 featuring choreography by Bruno Castro This is a visual poem that goes from decay to light. It’s a soul that walks this abandoned place. A spirit that passes and is no longer there. It is the transcendence represented by ballet. Even in the moments when she is very powerful, all moves have an ambiguity. This film talks about rawness, whereas this is about doubt.
18. Cubistimenco Kathy Rose (USA) 5:03 A dynamic dance video in which stylized personae impart a world of rhythm and pattern. Patterns in movement and visuals are woven with rhythmic heel work by Rose in an invigorating work.
19. Inheritor Recordings Brian Johnson (Canada) 6:20 featuring choreography by 605 Collective Filmed at the historic British Columbia Sugar Refinery (Rogers Sugar) in Vancouver, British Columbia, and featuring 16 dancers, this work warps time and place to augment and expand the dancers’ raw physicality. A quiet uprising of a new generation.
STAGE continues until 25 Sep 16 | www.horsecross.co.uk | Facebook | issuu | YouTube | TwitterSTAGE is a series of public events and an exhibition of moving image works by 13 Scotish and international artists which explore the relationship between the museum and the stage, dance and drama, music and movement. STAGE is a partnership between Horsecross Arts, Perth Dance Festival and Southern Fried. Additional support provided by GOAT, University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education, Traverse Theatre and Creative Scotland.
Please note that a small part of the exhibition may occasionally be interrupted due to the public nature of the Threshold artspace. To ensure your visit is fully rewarding, please contact us in advance or book yourself a Coffee, Croissant and Art curator’s tour available on selected Wednesdays.
