Every once in a while, a new social app takes over and becomes massively popular, but something that makes TikTok unique from the others is the focus on dance.  Today we’ll talk about what dance on this app looks like, how the global community is connecting on this application, and what are the potential personal and national security risks of using what seems to be an innocent video sharing platform. 

With hard-core believers for and against, we’ll consider arguments on both sides. TikTok is one of the fastest growing and perhaps also one of the most controversial, with a tainted history of lawsuits under its former name Musical.ly. Especially with a possible ban in the U.S. and current bans in other countries, we wanted to have this conversation now, and we invited Leslie Scott Zanovich, cultural leader, change-maker, and founder of Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, to join the conversation.  
 

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Follow Leslie @lesliescottsays
and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance @ypadnow

YPAD’s Tik Tok Tips
For Dancers
For Parents

Documentary Rec: The Social Dilemma

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Announcements

Screening
Dancinema’s online program “Quaranscreendance” 

Starting: October 1st / Free

Submissions

Knowbox Dance Film Festival

Deadline: October 14th

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Pick of the Week

Shore - Fleet Foxes

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Music videos play a huge part in introducing dance to the screen.

From MTV, commercials, and nowadays, YouTube premieres-- almost everyone has experienced a form of dance on screen through a widely known musical artist. As we discuss our three dance-centric music video picks, we come to realize that music videos are a commercialized version of experimental cinema.

Behind the celebrity glamour and performance, there is a pure delivery of contrasting jump cuts, metaphorical imagery, and occasionally, non-traditional storytelling -- in this case, the dancing tells the story.

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Topic Films

Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson (1989)

Dir. Dominic Sena

Behind the Scenes: Rhythm Nation Rehearsals

Around the World- Daft Punk (2007)

Dir. Michel Gondry

Chor. by Blanca Li

Michel Gondry and Daft Punk talk about Around The World music video 

My Moon, My Man - Feist (2007) 

Dir. Patrick Daughters. 

Chor. Noémie Lafrance

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Pick of the Week

Aimee La Joie 

The Film Crew

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Sh*t ADs say

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Art is not created in a vacuum.

Screendance is practiced globally and while there is a strong worldwide network, each practitioner and the work they create is influenced by their unique contexts; from their dance training and background to the social and political environments the work is created in.

In this episode, we examine different modes and values systems of screendance around the world. We discuss the intentions behind the work and discuss curatorial responsibility in appropriately contextualizing work that is presented to audiences unfamiliar with it. 

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Films

The Color of Reality - Movement Art Is

Directed by Jon Boogz

The Derivé

Directed by Tanin Torabi

Supermambo (MX)- 2002

Directed by Benito Gonzalez

Haedo en Llamas (Argentina)-2005

Directed by Ladys Gonzalez and Francisco De la Cerda

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Festival Announcements

Screening

Choreoscope - International dance Film Festival Barcelona

Online

Sept 14th - 27th

Submission Deadline

Dance Camera West

Los Angeles, CA

Oct. 1st

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Documentaries educate, celebrate, and honor the moments of history in the world at large. With plenty of recorded documents on the upbringing of ballet and modern dance, we have to question when and where did jazz dancing enter into the picture.

Khadifa Wong’s recently completed documentary, Uprooted, has been making its festival rounds, being one of the very few films that thoroughly examine the beginnings and transformations of jazz dancing in the United States.

We were given the opportunity to watch this film in its totality and we are discussing the important topics brought up in the story and how it may sit to audiences outside of the dance community.

Aside from our deep dive round table, Jen Ray and Clare had a moment to speak with the “Uprooted” team, discussing the making of the film itself.

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Uprooted Links

Uprooted Trailer

Uprooted Film Site

Follow the “Uprooted” creators

Instagram

@uprooted.film

@Ldrcreativellc

@khadifawong

@zaknemorin

Twitter

@uprooted_film

@ldr_creative 

@khadifawong

@zaknemorin

Facebook

Uprooted Film (@uprootedjazzdoc)

Lisa Donmall-Reeve @ldrcreativellc

Khadifa Wong

Zak Nemorin

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Screenings

F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement

Vancouver BC

Available Online Sept 12th - 19th

Screenings & Submissions

Dancinema’s Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival AND Capitol Dance and Cinema Festival

Vancouver BC and Washington DC

Online Oct 1-13 and Live in D.C. Oct 10

Rolling Submissions on Dancinema FilmFreeway

Pick of the Week

Criterion Collection: Studio Visits Playlist

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We had the opportunity to chat with Eric Cheung last year in Vancouver BC at the Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival.

His film E_GO, a low budget and high impact short featuring captivating movement is available to view now. Eric Cheung is a street dance artist who currently resides in Vancouver, BC and is a company dancer of Ouro Collective.

Eric is passionate about advancing the boundaries of street dance and its possibilities by exploring into different domains such as VR, Short Films, digital experiences, theatre settings and other art disciplines.

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Eric’s Film

E_GO

Directed and Shot by Alimzhan Alan Sabir

instagram.com/alimsabir/

Choreography by Eric Cheung

instagram.com/squidjit_/

Music by Noah Williamson

soundcloud.com/noah_noah

Commissioned by F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement) with support from Cineworks and Charles Street Video

f-o-r-m.ca

cineworks.ca

Charlesstreetvideo.com

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Festival/Workshop Announcement

Screenings

F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement

Vancouver BC

Available Online Sept 12th - 19th

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It’s been quite a year with COVID-19 interfering with the world’s daily routines and freedom. With people quarantining inside their homes, a rise of creativity has spiked into the world of dance film.

Entering into the era of what we are calling “Pandemic Vision”, we look at a few films that have sparked new ideas and inventive ways of producing work with social distancing in mind.

We also talk about the social distant process of making films during quarantine with Talia Shea Levin, director of our pick film, Isolations.

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Topic Films

Parked
Directed by Ivan Cash & Dan Addelson
Produced by Cash Studios & Jacob Jonas The Company

Isolations

Directed by Talia Shea Levin

Featured in 

Best of Shelter Shorts

Dance Magazine’s Video of the Month

Film Shortage - Quarantine Creatives

BOOOOOOOOM TV

Shots Presents

Confinement Online Film Festival

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema

And Now Presents

FREE THE WORK

Salute Your Shorts

National Water Dance 2020 Virtual Performance

Direction by Matt Reeves performed by Orange Grove Dance

Phenom - Thao and the Get Down Stay Down Music Video

Directed/Choreographed by Erin Murray

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Festival/Workshop Announcements & Submission Deadlines

LEEDS international Screendance Competition

Leeds UK 

Final Deadline - August 31

Multiplié Dance Film Festival

Trondheim, Norway 

Earlybird Deadline - Sept 1

International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance

Valencia, Spain 

Final Deadline - Sept 2

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Pick of the week

TOM by Wilkie Branson
Trailer

The Making of TOM

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Instagram

Today on the show, we are having a talk about a somewhat uncomfortable topic in the film world-- money. We are looking at three different films with three very different budgets. From very expensive film sets to low production, low maintenance projects -- it all comes down to the budget.

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Links to films

Scene from “Dola de Rola” (2002)

Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Budget: 2.5 crores = 28,279,250.00 United States Dollar for the SONG/SCENE, not the movie

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The Cost of Living (2004)

Directed by Lloyd Newsom

Budget: 250000 Pound = about 315,000 dollars

La Démiurge #1 (2016)

Directed by ALAIN EL SAKHAWI

Budget: approx 2000 euro.

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Upcoming Festivals/Workshops

Screening

Mobile Dance Film Festival

Available online from July 25th - Aug 31st

Submission Deadlines

Fuselage Dance Film Festival

Seattle, WA

Final Deadline - August 23

Idaho Screendance Festival

Boise, ID

Final Deadline - August 23

Cinedanza Festival

Modena, Italy

Final Deadline - August 24

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Pick of the Week

I-HATE-THIS-FILM (Vimeo Channel)

P.S. / Director: I don’t know!!! I really want to know!! Who is this person!! Why does he/she/they hate this movie!!?!

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Welcome to Frameform! A movie and movement podcast!

Today we are kicking off the series by discussing dance film as a mode of filmmaking, why it is relevant, and comparing films from the past and present that exemplify the medium. But first we talk about what we are watching these days!

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Topic Films

Colorwise

Created, Choreographed & Performed by The Seaweed Sisters:

Megan Lawson, Jillian Meyers & Dana Wilson

Directed by Angela and Ithyle

A Study in Choreography for a Camera

Directed by Maya Deren and Talley Beatty

Upcoming Festivals/Workshops/Lectures

Screenings

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema 

Boulder, Colorado 

Starting August 10, presenting both virtually and in person over the next few months. 

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Submission Deadlines

Kinetoscope: International Screendance Film Festival

Missoula, Montana 

Regular deadline - August 14 

Final deadline coming up in September

Thessaloniki Cinedance Festival

Greece

Final Deadline -  August 14

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Pick of the Week!

MK - Back & Forth

Directed by Finn Keenan

From Rixey, this is Frameform. A podcast discussing movies, moving and everything in between.

We are three dance film nerds who can’t wait to take you on a deep dive into the crazy, complex and exciting world at the intersection of dance and film.

We will be delving into topics, trends and issues in dance, film and culture at large.

We will also be sharing conversations with creators in the field, what inspires them and the challenges they face when making their work.

Frameform is a production of Rixey.

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