Screendance Festival at DeSales University

Dance Films Association teams with DeSales University to bring the Screendance Festival, a selection of exciting films that blend cinema and dance together. Accompanying the Screendance Festival is a 48 hour screendance challenge, given to our Dance and TV/Film majors that encourages them to collaborate. Participants will have to work together to conceive, shoot, edit, and produce a dance film within 48 hours. NYC based filmmaker, model,choreographer, and Bessie award winning dancer Celia Rowlson-Hall will adjudicate and give feedback on all of the films submitted and will award a prize to a winning film Saturday Nov. 19th. All the films produced in the 48 hour Screendance challenge will also be screened that evening. Screening of DFA Films: Friday, November 18th, 2011- 8:00pm Saturday, November 19th, 2011- 2:00pm A program of the films is included below. For more information, please contact the Performing Arts Department at DeSales University. Nora Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, choreographed by Nora Chipaumire, 2008, US/UK. 35m Choreographed by Nora Chipaumire, and produced by Joan Frosch NORA is a dense and swiftly moving poem of sound and image, alternately tragic and comic. A fiercely embattled African girl experiences the joys and disappointments of love, and struggles against intimidation and violence to gain her independence. Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, NORA includes a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from schoolchildren to grandmothers, with rousing music by Zimbabwean legend Thomas Mapfumo. Drift Kat Cole and Eric Garcia, 2010, US. 7.5m A pair of vagabonds, also the directors, in a “whatever” mood, hitchhike, stumble, and inch their way through striking landscapes. Little Ease (Outside the Box) Matthew Tarr and Ami Ipapo, US, 6.03m (Nominated for Jury Prize for Best Short 2010) A new take on a classic piece of choreography conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb. Through the use of the camera, we remove obstacles to the conversation between performer, environment and witness, taking this inspiring and athletic movement out of its typical context. Stronger Wilkie Branson, 2010, UK, 4.13m Two companions, previously lost, find jubilance in a jaunty climb through the woods. Will Time Tell? Sue Healey, Australia, 2006,12:30m Funded by Asia Link, OZCO, this short plays with rhythms and counterrhythms in this meditative, playful piece shot in Japan that gives one a sense of the outsider’s experienc Advance  Mitchell Rose, 2010, US, 2.30 One dance. Two minutes. Fifty locations. Performed by Rose’s long-time collaborators Ashley Roland & Jamey Hampton with composer William Goodrum.