On June 15th, "Dance Camera West Film Festival" in Los Angeles presents a screening of dance films from Scandinavia, followed by a discussion with Magne Antonsen and Gaelen Hanson.
Join the Dialouge and Screening: The Future of Dance Screen
For the Future of Dance Screen, Dance Camera West presents a screening of selections from Moving North, a collection of dance films from Scandinavia, followed by a discussion with Magne Antonsen, artistic director Ultima Film- Dans for Kamera, Oslo, Norway and Gaelen Hanson, director of New Dance Cinema and 33 Fainting Spells, Seattle, moderated by Lynette Kessler, director of Dance Camera West.
Produced by Magne Antonsen and Vibeke Vogel, Moving North combines the talents of Nordic choreographers and filmmakers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland selected by an international jury of dance filmmakers to explore the magic power of the dance film genre. The resulting 10 dance film shorts, each using a different language of expression – from martial arts to classical dance, ethnic dance to animated dance, everyday dance to trance and ecstasy dance, from the humorous to the thoughtful -- have been broadcast on television worldwide.
Magne Antonsen
Trained in the graphic arts and film production, Magne Antonsen started his career as video art curator at Henie-Onstad Modern Art Centre. Since 1997 he’s been artistic director of the annual dance film event "Ultima Film – Dans for Kamera", which is a part of Ultima – Oslo Contemporay Music Festival. He has also programmed and organized several dance film events around the world and, from 2001 to 2003, collaborated with Barok Film, the two part project Nordic Dance for Camera which resulted in the series ”Moving North – 10 Short Dance Films”.
Along with producing and directing his own films and freelancing withing the dance and media communties, he is currently a member of the Artistic board of Dansens Hus (Dance House Norway), the new national venue for dance. Mr. Antonsen has most recently also accepted to establish an extensive dance film course at Danshögskolan (The University College of Dance) in Stockholm for professional dance and visual artists in the Nordic countries. The course will take place during spring 2007.
Gaelen Hanson
A 1990 graduate of Oberlin College in Dance and Theater, Gaelen Hanson went on to study at the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, The Netherlands before co-founding 33 Fainting Spells with Dayna Hanson in 1994. For the past 10 years Hanson has been co-artistic director of Seattle-based dance theater company 33 Fainting Spells, whose critically-acclaimed work has been commissioned and presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, and Franfurt’s Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm. In addition to creating new works in dance theater, Hanson co-curates and produces New Dance Cinema, Seattle’s only film festival devoted to the presentation of significant and innovative work in the international arena of dance film and video.
With Dayna Hanson, Hanson has co-directed two short 16mm dance films, Measure & Entry, which have screened at over 50 film festivals and venues internationally, including the New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and CinemaTexas in Austin. Measure is included on First Run Features’ Dance for Camera DVD, and was nominated for a 2002 American Choreography Award by The Academy of Dance on Film in Los Angeles. 33 Fainting Spells’ second short film, Entry, premiered at the 2003 Seattle International Film Festival, receiving the award for “Best Experimental Short Film.” It was also included in the 2004 Best of the Northwest Film Festival touring program. Hanson’s latest 35mm dance film is entitled Your Lights Are Out Or Burning Badly.
When: June 15, 7pm
Where: Hammer Museum. 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Info: FREE Admission, 310-443-7000 www.hammer.ucla.edu