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Dancing onto the big screen: The annual Moving Pictures Festival offers up the best 'dance-media collisions' on tape and celluloid

by Paula Citron

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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