In the forthcoming volume 10 of IJSD, there is an interview with choreographer/director Sarah Elgart. IJSD co-editor Harmony Bench happened across Elgart’s bi-weekly column ScreenDance Diaries and in that column there is a link to a film called Move Freely directed by Wynn Holmes who worked with GRUBB (Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats). Here it is:
We are thrilled to announce that from Volume 9 of the International Journal of Screendance will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). This move formalizes what has been the informal practice and ethos of IJSD since its inception: we believe that authors should be able to widely share their own final, published work (i.e. not pre-prints) without having to pay for open access, and that audiences everywhere should be able to read this work free of charge. While authors will retain copyright ownership of their work, this Creative Commons license will allow readers to print, share, re-post, and republish IJSD articles, without asking for permission, as long as the work is properly attributed to authors.
You can read more about the license here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
or view the full legal text here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
– Harmony Bench and Simon Ellis (co-editors, IJSD)
This is an open call for submissions to Volume 10 of the International Journal of Screendance: http://screendancejournal.org.
The past several years have witnessed the growth and consolidation of screendance studies as a scholarly field, while the creative practices at the intersection of dance and screen continue to proliferate, change, and challenge. The first volume of IJSD asserted with the provocation that “Screendance has not yet been invented.” Volume 10 of IJSD presents an opportunity to reflect on screendance now. Where do we find ourselves as a field? How do audiences currently engage with dance onscreen? On what tools and resources do artists rely? What pressing questions and concerns are on our collective horizon, and what are the lingering issues that have not been fully addressed?
We invite contributions related to all aspects of screendance production, curation, reception, history, and analysis in the forms of scholarly research (articles), interviews, reviews, provocations and viewpoints, and visual essays. We invite contributions that address dance film and festivals, dance in global popular cinemas and television, dance in social media, installation and digital dance, dance games, and any other possible combination of dance and screen. We particularly welcome contributions from emerging scholars, and from artists and scholars working outside the United States and United Kingdom.
The focus of IJSD is to support and nurture cross-disciplinary writing on screendance by developing ideas and debates at the intersection of film, dance, visual arts, and media arts. Contributions to IJSD will expand and critique contemporary notions of screen-based images and changing choreographic practices, and engage with theories and philosophies from interdisciplinary fields.
For enquiries please email the International Journal of Screendance editors Harmony Bench bench.9@osu.edu and Simon Ellis skellis.info@protonmail.com
The fourth international Light Moves Festival of Screendance symposium announces its open call for papers and presentations entitled Screendance Through the Senses. The symposium sits within the Light Moves festival and encourages artistic and scholarly exchange, debate and discussion in screendance and related disciplines including performance, dance, film, visual arts, sound and text.
Deadline: Mon 10 July 2017
More details: http://www.lightmoves.ie/open-call-screendance-symposium/
This is a call for papers for volume 9 of the International Journal of Screendance. The theme for this volume will interrogate the assumption that the screen is a white space. In similar fashion to Richard Dyer’s work on whiteness, screens and filmic representation, we are interested in questioning the ‘space’ of the screen as one that constructs particular raced imaginaries, yet one that is predominantly imagined as ‘white.’ Just as the art world is questioning the idea of the “white cube” and the gallery space, we would like to find alternative modes and voices for engaging with the idea of a white screen. We would like to receive contributions that showcase a broad range of ideas on how race intersects with screendance, philosophies, aesthetics, mediation, and notions of subjectivity and the artist.
We envision contributions to be centered around the practice and mediation of dance via the screen. Contributors might choose to speak about video artists, practices, media circulation of viral videos, racialized/affective communities as they manifest on screens on the Internets, Holly/Bolly/Nollywood casting and representation practices, screendance festivals, and historiographies of screendance.
Other topics could include:
For enquiries regarding this volume please email the IJSD guest editors Melissa Blanco Borelli (melissa.blanco@rhul.ac.uk) and Raquel Monroe (rmonroe@colum.edu).
For general inquiries regarding IJSD please email the editors Harmony Bench (bench.9@osu.edu) and Simon Ellis (simonkellis@gmail.com).
Previous issues of the IJSD are available at www.screendancejournal.org.
This event explores how filmmakers of colour are responding to new technologies, creating fresh work that is opening up new spaces for conversation around the exclusivity of filmmaking.
https://www.ica.art/whats-on/visual-cultures-decoding-music-video
Friday 30 March 2017
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
6:30pm
This is an open call for submissions to Volume 8 of the International Journal of Screendance: http://screendancejournal.org/.
The focus of IJSD is to support and nurture cross-disciplinary writing on screendance. This call is an opportunity for artists and scholars to develop and debate ideas at the intersection of film, dance, visual arts, and media arts. Contributions to IJSD will expand and critique contemporary notions of screen-based images and changing choreographic practices, and engage with theories and philosophies from interdisciplinary fields.
We invite contributions related to all aspects of screendance production, curation, reception, history, and analysis in the forms of scholarly research (articles), interviews, reviews, provocations and viewpoints, visual essays, as well as work by emerging scholars. We particularly welcome contributions from outside the United States and United Kingdom.
For enquiries please email the International Journal of Screendance editors Harmony Bench bench.9@osu.edu and Simon Ellis simonkellis@gmail.com
Harmony Bench and Simon Ellis are pleased to announce that Volume 6 of the International Journal of Screendance is now online:
http://screendancejournal.org/issue/view/167
The journal is fully open access.
Thanks to all the contributors, reviewers, copy-editors, OJS support at Ohio State (Melanie Schlosser and Ingrid Schneider), and to both the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE, Coventry University) and The Ohio State University for their support.
This year’s Leeds International Screendance Competition is on Wednesday 11 November at 6pm at Everyman Leeds.
The deadline is now closed and the selection panel have studied 164 international submissions, to nominate ten compelling shorts for the expert jury to choose a single winner from. The international jury is now confirmed in Marisa C. Hayes (co-director of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy) Leonel Brum (co-director of dança em foco in Brazil) and Professor Dr. Liz Aggiss (artist & filmmaker). These ten films selected will go on to comprise the screening in Leeds on 11 November. Don’t miss it!
After last years resounding success, LIFF and Yorkshire Dance are delighted to present the city’s second Screendance Competition, a captivating programme of international short films that explore the site where cinematography and dance converge. Sometimes narrative and sometimes abstract, these shorts all maintain a keen engagement with movement or choreography. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy a stunning selection of beautifully produced dance films, spanning a wide variety of styles and approaches to this burgeoning genre. Vote for your favourite and compare your choice with the final winner singled out by our international expert jury.
– Andy Wood
More information:
https://www.facebook.com/LIFFScreendance
http://www.leedsfilm.com/films/leeds-screendance-competition/
http://www.danceuk.org/news/article/leeds-international-film-festival/
