Dancing the Archive – Streaming

What is an archive? This program explores the possibilities from the merging of multi-media documentation to the reframing of personal practice

Throughout history, dance has been archived with the use of the most advanced technologies available, be it through notation or recording technology. These records contain value beyond the utilitarian.

The International Journal of Screendance recently noted, “The hybrid nature of screendance may allow for new explorations in relation to archival footage to emerge” and the films in this program show the possibilities of these explorations, from the merging of multi-media documentation to the reframing of personal practice.

Streaming on ODC Connect

Program Info

Runtime: 43 minutes

October 5 - October 15

Venue: Streaming on ODC Connect

$8.99

Program Films

Impossible Image-Karen Pearlman
“Impossible Image” shakes down the patriarchy by remixing the anarchy and gender play of women of the 1920s with the fury, irony, and sly humor of dancing women in the 2020s.
Karen Pearlman
Karen Pearlman
(Australia, 2023) 8:14 minutes

Impossible Image

Transparent
An experimental documentary and visionary multimedia artwork, “Transparent” follows the reflections of dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies as she unravels the complex processes that underpin a life’s work in dance.
Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies
(United Kingdom, 2022) 35:22 minutes
An experimental documentary and visionary multimedia artwork, “Transparent” follows the reflections of dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies as she unravels the complex processes that underpin a life’s work in dance.
(United Kingdom, 2022) 35:22 minutes

Transparent