Dance On Screen is the first videodance festival in Austria. It takes place in Graz, UNESCO city of Design, Cultural Capital of Europe 2003 and capital city of Styria annually since 2016.
It is an
international dance film festival and includes a range of short films
that celebrate the immediacy of dance combined with the intimacy of
the camera’s eyes: short films, shown through movement.
Videodance got an universal language, since it is not only combined with a given tongue, but with a visual and more immediate emotional impact. There is a huge diversity making a product of short-dance-film, that has something to do both with the way to film a choreography and the way to create a choreography for the film.
The same concept of choreography becomes much wider: choreography is
generated by filmed movements, but also by the movement of the
camera, by the cutting, by the rhythm of the images, or by the colors
or the landscapes.
Dance On Screen wants to show this variety, looking for short-dance-films that manifest their own artistic aesthetics and are engaged in that breadth of strategy of creating choreography.
The festival aims at the creation of a space that stimulates the interest of the public and concentrates creation and research.
DANCE ON SCREEN AWARD Jury
2016/17:
Sarah Taylor –
Australia, choreographer and dancer, currently Maîtres de ballet at
Balletto di Roma
Hallgrim Hansegård
– Norway, artistic director and choreographer of Frikar
Giuseppe Domingo
Romano – Italy, director, film producer and head of Except house
production.
2018:
Sarah Taylor –
Australia, choreographer and dancer, currently Maîtres de ballet at
Balletto di Roma
Gabor Pinter – Hungary, director of the Szerpentin
Dance Film Festival Budapest
Stefan Schmid –
Austria, head of the Graz film production company AVbaby.
2019:
Liz King – UK/Austria, artistic director of the Choreographisches Zentrum Burgenland, choreographer
Sebastian Höglinger
– Austria, festival director of Diagonale – Festival des
österreichischen Films
Sarah Möller, curator of the Pool Tanzfilm Festival Berlin.
The location:
Since 2019 the
festival is taking place at Space04 in Kunsthaus Graz, the museum of
modern art that was built as part of the programme for the European
Capital of Culture 2003, designed by architects Peter Cook and Colin
Fournier.
The first three
festival editions took place at Filmzentrum Rechbauerkino in Graz.
This is an avantgarde cinema located in one of the most picturesque
streets of the old town. Rechbauerkino is a reference point for
‚culture-hungry people‘ and is a must in the cultural scene of Graz.