DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL WITH KATRINA McPHERSON (SLC: Sept 15 - 17)

DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL WITH KATRINA McPHERSON

What: 8th International Dance for the Camera Festival
Where: Marriott Center for Dance and the Post Theater, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
When: September 15-17, 2011, 8:00 pm
Tickets: General-$7.50, Students-$5.00, U of U Students-no charge
Contact: Ellen Bromberg, 801-587-9807, e.bromberg@utah.edu
For more information go to: www.dance.utah.edu/danceforcamerafest

The University of Utah’s Departments of Modern Dance and Film & Media Arts are pleased to announce the 8th International Dance for the Camera Festival. The Festival spans three evenings with different films screened each night.

September 15 - The Next Generation: Juried Student Works (Marriott Center for Dance)
In conjunction with the Dance for the Camera Festival, the students of the University of Utah's Departments of Modern Dance and Film & Media Arts will present an evening of student works chosen from submissions from around the world. Selected by a jury of professionals and students, this evening provides young filmmakers and choreographers with a venue for their work, as well as providing audiences with a glimpse of the art forms exciting future. Selected from over 80 submissions, films from Cuba, Russia, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and the US will be screened.


September 16 - An Evening of Films by Katrina McPherson (The Post Theater)
Award-winning artist Katrina McPherson has been creating screendances for over 20 years. She has wide experience as a dancer and choreographer, as a director of television arts programs for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and as a video dance-maker. Included in this evening will be McPherson’s award winning film Moment. Having received the best screen choreography award at IMZ’s International Dance Screen in 2000, the jury citation was “For poetic simplicity in which the structure of the choreography is revealed through the skillful editing”. Also included in the program will be her most recent work, There is a Place, which was selected as the Best Festival Short at Dance Camera West in Los Angeles. Ms. McPherson will be present to introduce and comment on all films.

September 17 – The American Premiere of Force of Nature, McPherson’s documentary on renowned improvisational dance artist, Kirstie Simson (UK) (The Post Theater)
Combining specially filmed performance, documentary footage and in-depth interviews, Force of Nature reveals Simson’s passionate belief in the power of dance to bring people together and transform lives. She has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a force of nature" by the New York Times, Simson is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London: “Simson’s eternal subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form and structure to create movement out of the rhythm of life itself.” Both artists will be present to discuss the film.

All screenings begin at 8:00PM. Thursday night’s screening will take place at the Hayes Christensen Theatre in the Marriott Center for Dance. Friday and Saturday nights’ screenings will take place at the Post Theater. Both locations are on the University of Utah Campus. Tickets are available at the door and are $7.50 for the general public, $5 for students, and University of Utah students are free.

We are also pleased to announce in conjunction with the Dance for Camera Festival, a Master Class with Kirstie Simson, Saturday, September 17 at 11:00 am, at the Marriott Center for Dance. Open to the public for a $15 fee, University of Utah students attend for free.

For more information go to: www.dance.utah.edu/danceforcamerafest

The Festival is supported by The University of Utah’s Departments of Modern Dance and Film & Media Arts. Katrina McPherson’s week long teaching residency is made possible by a grant from the Council of Dee Fellows.