PRESS RELEASE: Dance Cinema resurrects Australia’s Screendance

Announcing:
Dance Cinema resurrects Australia’s Screendance

For Immediate Release:
Name of Press Contact: Melissa Ramos
Date: January 2019
Phone: 0434484463
Email: [email protected]

Curatorial Screendance archive:
https://www.dancecinema.org/archives.html

Dance Cinema Premiere Video – https://vimeo.com/371060011

Dance Cinema Organisation will host a dance film premiere event,
marking the 1st annual Sydney event dedicated to the form of
Screendance. The event will be hosted at the Chauvel Palace Cinema,
Paddington, 7 pm on the 21st of March 2020, part of Sydney’s
month-long contemporary dance festival March Dance. Showcasing
local and international dance films, resurrecting Screendance back to the
Australian audience.

Australia has such a rich Screendance history, but since the demise of
ReelDance in 2014, there has been little support for Australian artists
working between film and choreography. Over the past 5 years,
Australian dance filmmakers have been under-supported with only a few
such as Sue Healey, Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman
preserving the form. Dance Cinema Organisation was established in
May 2019, in order to keep the form alive, and to embark on supporting
and preserving Screendance artists in Australia. Obtaining opportunities
for dance artists and partnering with Los Angeles Dance Film Festival,
Dance Camera West.

“I’m concerned for the longevity of Screendance in Australia,
developing programs to provide a focus for local artists, exposure
to international works and opportunities for the local dance film
community to grow, learn and share knowledge.”

– Melissa Ramos (Founding Director of Dance Cinema)

Dance Cinema’s premiere event will screen emerging local Australian
Screendance films by Lucy Doherty, Lux Eterna, Bonnie Curtis, and
Sarah Pini. Plus new dance films from Sue Healey and The Physical TV
Company Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman. Many of the artists
have shown their films at International Dance Film Festivals, Lucy
Doherty recently screening her film ‘Reminiscence’ at New York’s Dance
on Camera Film Festival & LA Dance Film Festival. For these artists
showing their films on the international platforms is favourable, yet all
have voiced their yearning for opportunities to exhibit and screen on
home ground.

Dance Cinema will premiere during Sydney’s Dance Festival, March
Dance 2020. Come and celebrate with the local Screendance
community, watch dance on screen and experience the power of dance
to ignite the human spirit. Visit https://www.dancecinema.org/events.html

About Dance Cinema:
We operate as a not-for-profit organisation that aims to inspire artists,
filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, and audiences around the world
with the language of dance, cinema & artistic narratives.
Dance Cinema is an online archive cinema that offers regular, high
quality screen dance works directed by visual / dance artists and
filmmakers whose production lies in-between contemporary art, dance
and cinema. Films and videos are published for 1 month and featured
alongside podcast interviews with their makers – from directors to
dancers, editors to cinematographers, sound to costume designers.
Screendance works are selected due to the importance of their content,
their collaborative curiosity, and originality in blurring the boundaries
between cinema, dance, and contemporary art. We present a diversity of
styles and creative sensibilities, and celebrate works by both established
and emerging artists.

Based in Sydney, Australia, we host annual public screenings, gallery
exhibitions and dance filmmaking workshops.