Dancing onto the big screen: The annual Moving Pictures Festival offers up the best 'dance-media collisions' on tape and celluloid
The Globe and Mail, Oct. 22, 2002
This article features highlights of dance-film pieces from the 11th annual Moving Pictures Festival. Citron's review presents a diverse cross-section of styles and subject matter, from documentaries, full-length fiction, foreign dance films and experimental films. Though all the genres feature exceptional dancing, choreography and filmmaking, what seems to particularly come alive in these films is not simply the dance itself but the melding of imaginations between director and choreographer. Also of interest is how many of the films also foreground the transformation of dances one has seen live onto film and the innovative results.
ITEM 2002.183 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Dance of the Warrior – Marie Brodeur
Dance of the Warrior – Sid Ali
Satin Rouge – Raja Amari
Motion Control – David Anderson
Hit and Run – John Comiskey
Motion Control – Liz Aggiss
Motion Control – Billy Cowie
Hit and Run – David Bolger
Shadow Boxing – Jason Ebanks
Ghost World – Sioned Watkins
Ghost World – Sarah Williams
Ghost World – Alex Geng
The Riders – Sandi Somers
The Riders – Nicole Mion
Peep Show – Robert DeLeskie
Peep Show – Gregory Nixon
Peep Show – Malgorzata Nowacka
Bollywood/Hollywood – Deepa Mehta
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