Dance Behind The Screen

On our fourth episode of 'dance film' month, your co-hosts Martheya and Azaria interview author and academic Dr. Harmony Bench. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about her book Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common, Dunham's Data, digital ways of thinking, social media best practices, and dance on screen. Special thanks to Ann Cooper Albright for connecting us for this interview.

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On our third episode of 'dance film' month, your co-hosts Marthea, YeaJean, and Reyna interview interdisciplinary dance artist, educator, researcher and facilitator from New Delhi, India, Sumedha Bhattacharyya. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about her social media account @duetwithcamera, the interactions of the Indian traditional form of Kathak and dance film, nostalgia and memory, exploring the intimacy between camera and dance, Sumedha's dance filmmaking process, and how we connected online.

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On our second episode of 'dance film' month, your co-host YeaJean interviews Belgium dance artist and filmmaker, Antoine Panier. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about his multi award-winning film Making Men. Making Men was an official selection for the kNOwBOX dance Film Festival in 2019. Antoine's film was audience voted the #NBFFAttentionGrabber in Dallas, Texas USA and #NBFFVisionary by our judging panel. In this episode you hear Antoine's thoughts on masculinity, advice for emerging dance filmmakers, and his experience on the NBFF 2020 jury.

Show kNOwtes: https://www.knowboxdance.com/post/67-antoinepanier

On our first episode of 'dance film' month, your co-host Reyna interviews Italian dance artist and filmmaker, Emma Cianchi. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about her dance film HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now). HIC ET NUNC was an official selected for the kNOwBOX dance Film Festival in 2019. Emma's film was audience voted the #NBFFAttentionGrabber in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Special thanks to Emma's translator.

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On our fourth episode of Interdisciplinary month, your co-hosts YeaJean and Martheya interview Dallas, Texas based choreographer/director, Danielle Georgiou. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about her #NBSS Visionary Awarded dance film 51 Days in Quarantine, Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG), dance theater, creative process in the pandemic, critiquing live and digital performance, social media as a platform for artmaking and self-curation.

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On our third episode of Interdisciplinary month, your co-hosts YeaJean and Martheya interview artist, performer and creative director best known for her award-winning digital projects for physical ideas, Norah Zuniga Shaw. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about interdisciplinary artmaking, creative and critical engagement, collaboration, Synchronous Objects by William Forsythe, and Digital Literacy.

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On our second episode of Interdisciplinary month, your co-host YeaJean interviews Taiwan choreographer, new media artist and the founder of YiLab, Su Wen-Chi. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about definitions of new media art, the digitized body, dance and technology, virtual vs. reality, and navigating dance and the digital space with collaborators. Special thanks to the Seoul International Choreography Workshop for presenting Dance and New Media Arts Workshop by Su Wen-Chi.

Show kNOwtes: https://www.knowboxdance.com/post/63-suwen-chi-yilab

On our first episode of Interdisciplinary month, your co-hosts Martheya and Azaria interview Norwegian choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about Mette's artistic career, performance preservation and time scale, repetition, the gap between stage and audience, her work Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, and dance as a performing art. Special thanks to Jonathan Burrows for connecting us for this interview.

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On our fifth episode of Dance History month, your co-hosts Martheya and Azaria interview choreographer, performer and scholar Thomas DeFrantz. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about the performance group SLIPPAGE and how they support black futures and social possibilities, curatorial practices that support people vs. protecting art, how African Diaspora forms and ideologies shift the dance landscape,Tommy's thoughts on social media, and three ways to be inclusive in your everyday life.

Show kNOwtes: https://www.knowboxdance.com/post/61-thomasdefrantz

On our fourth episode of Dance History month, your co-hosts Martheya and Reyna interview Ann Cooper Albright and Ann Dils, co-editors of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. In this episode, we go behind the screen and talk about why and how they co-edited Moving History/Dancing Cultures, nurturing friendships and scholarly networks, how they define dance history now, their National Endowment for the Arts-funded digital collection, Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy, and advice for emerging authors and artists.

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