A DANCE FILM WORKSHOP WITH DANIEL CONRAD - REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 21st!

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society and the Dance Centre present a full-day workshop for filmmakers, choreographers, and dancers who want to make dance film; and for any artists who want to exercise their visual imaginations.

Most dance films try to film dance choreographed for stage. This usually fails, since dance has vastly different needs than film. Film cuts the world into angles, while dance is conceived as a continuum from a single angle. Also, time and space become more compressed on film than on stage. To make true dance film, choreographers must understand film composition and directors must understand the nature and rhythms of dance. Going from stage to screen starts with choreographing and lighting shot-by-shot, with “sticky ends,” and it continues with non-stage locations, camera angles, camera movement, and kinetic montage. We will study these core methods, watch films and film clips which use them well, and then practice extensively with camera, lights and a dancer.

Instructor DANIEL CONRAD’s ten dance films have screened at Locarno, Montréal World, London Int'l, Valladolid, Seattle Int. (Best of Fest Shorts), New York Dance on Camera (2 Silver Awards), Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Prize), Toronto Moving Pictures (Audience Choice Award), Dance Camera West (L.A.), Vancouver Int., Northwest Film & Video (Judge’s selection); sold to PBS, CBC, ZDF, TVE, ARTV, & Bravo; featured at the Portland Art Museum's series: Icons, Rebels and Visionaries; and purchased by the National Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C.

BODIES IN MOTION, BODIES AT REST
co-sponsored by the Dance Centre
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10am-6pm
Cineworks [1131 Howe] and the Scotiabank Dance Centre [677 Davie]
$85 Cineworks members, $125 non-members

Registration: Please contact Leanne at info(at)cineworks.ca or 604.685.3841.