Image still from Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off the Dance Floor, dir. Lisa Freeman. A dancer standing on a pier with an expanse of water around them. The dancer turns to look at the slowly approaching camera moving towards them. Text on top the image reads: “Salt Lake Film Society Presents” and at the bottom of the image: “Screendance”. The “a” in Screendance is a dark red sideways triangle, like the play button on a video player. Additional text reads “$60 Pass for all films. $12 individual tickets. Get tickets at slfstix.org.”
Screendance Cultural Tour
The Screendance Cultural Tour is a 3-day, 7 program dance film festival in collaboration with the Screendance Program (School of Dance at the University of Utah), and the Salt Lake Film Society (SLFS). Sponsored by the Tanner Humanities Center, the College of Fine Arts, and the Salt Lake Film Society.
Broadway Centre Cinema
111 E Broadway, 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT
April 9 - 11, 2024
Schedule:
April 9 - 7PM: Opening Night: Solo Screening with Guest Artist Tania Hernández Velasco at the Broadway Centre Cinema
April 10 - 12:30PM: Latine Perspectives in Filmmaking at the Hayes Christensen Theater - Marriott Center for Dance
April 10 - 7PM & 9PM: Film programs at the Broadway Centre Cinema
April 11 - 7PM & 9PM: Film programs at the Broadway Centre Cinema
A close up of an Asian-Canadian dancer/performer washed in a soft gold light. Her hand is raised in gentle motion, her attention focused on the gesture. Over the image in all uppercase is the text- “EXPS SLC - Experimental Series - Salt Lake City”. Video still by 廖芯妮 (understanding you), dir. Jasmine Liaw
Experimental Series - Salt Lake City (EXPS/SLC)
Experimental Series - Salt Lake City is an ongoing experimental video/film series screening at the Union Theatre at the University of Utah. Programming selections prioritize experimental, avant-garde, or radical approaches to creating in the medium of film and video. We encourage especially women, queer, and artists with disabilities whose work is rooted in experimental approaches addressing movement, dance, choreography, and/or the body to submit works for consideration.
A drag performer in a bright red dress stands on an empty stage with her arms semi raised. She looks out upon the beautiful historic theater. The camera is placed behind the performer so we see the theater and performer’s outline. Video still by We’re Still Here by Talia Keys
Utah Experimental & Doc Shorts
A program of short films highlighting filmmakers based or previously based in the state of Utah. Films include themes of dance, queerness, and more. All films subtitled for access.
801 Salon (Vis.)
801 S 800 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
February 18, 2023
An elegant dark-skinned hand, semi-centered in the frame. The hand is semi-extended and palm up, almost as in an offering. Behind the hand is a dark purple background. Video still by Notes on Gesture by Martine Syms
The Language of Gesture
We live in bodies that move through the world, creating physical narratives. Through the use of gesture, a unique language develops between internal experience and the external world. An extension of the body, a strategy, a phrase, gestures communicate ideas which transcend words. What does it mean to embody an idea? How does expressing a gesture change through the chosen creative medium? How can gestures hold stories of disability, reclamation, and empowerment? This hybrid program will explore the language of gestures via single-channel video and live performance movement works. Artists screening/performing include AM Baggs, Ariana Gerstein, Terrance Houle, Chanelle Lajoie, Chloe Nagle, Martine Syms + more.
November 17, 2022 at the Union Theater, Salt Lake City UT
October 8, 2022 at Red Eye Theatre, Minneapolis MN
April 21, 2022 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI
A collage of different video stills from filmmakers who participated in the Movement New Media Lab. A mixture of bodies and hands, as well as landscape and bright animated images. Video stills by film and dancemakers for Movement Media Lab 2019
Movement Media Lab
As project manager for Danceworks DanceLAB, Movement Media Lab, I worked with artists to develop their dance film projects over the course of 12 weeks. Projects screen at the end of the lab process at Danceworks Studio Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Danceworks Studio Theater
1661 N Water St, Milwaukee, WI 53202
September 28, 2019: Playbill, Movement Media Lab 2019 Gallery
September 28/29, 2018: Interview with Footlights, Playbill, Movement Media Lab 2018 Gallery
A large crowd sits in an expansive industrial room with bright windows. At the front of the crowd there are two dancers, facing one another, arms raised and in a deep lunge. Photo still from In The Shell, choreographed by Nadin Bailey & Kym McDaniel. A dance part of Summer Series 2017: 5x5. Photo by Hannah Hamalian
Summer Series
Summer Series invites choreographers, performers, and filmmakers from around the US to present work and discuss process.
Summer Series 2018: Beyond Logic, at Good City Brewing, Milwaukee WI
Summer Series 2017: 5x5 at Grapefruit Studios, Milwaukee WI
Summer Series 2016: In Touch at The Polish Falcon, Milwaukee WI
Manhattan peaks out behind imagery of a bridge. The print is colored purple with blue tints. Film still by Bridges Go Round by Shirley Clarke
From the Archives: Where Movement Comes From
A curated evening of 16mm dance films from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s 16mm print archive. Filmmakers screening include Emil Cohl, Shirley Clarke, Maya Deren, The Edison Company, Kerry Laitala, Len Lye, Robert Nelson and Wiliam Allan, and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
From the Archives is presented at the Union Cinema located at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. More information about the event can be found here.