Screendance Initiative


Screendance Festival Opens April 10, 2021
Free for all current ACDA Members

ACDA is thrilled to embark on the Screendance Initiative. Pushed to the front burner by the realities of our Virtual Year, laying the groundwork to include screendance as part of ACDA’s ongoing events. We invite the ACDA membership to partake of the screendance offerings. The first annual ACDA Screendance Initiative is comprised of two main programming components open to the ACDA membership:

  1. A SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL with adjudicated gala screendance concerts and an informal showcase.
  2. A series of SCREENDANCE WORKSHOPS in screendance including lecture/demonstrations and guest artist speakers for those new to screendance or seeking information on screendance theory and technique

WHAT IS SCREENDANCE?

ACDA defines screendance as dance created discretely for the digital
screen combining the arts and crafts of cinematography and choreography
focused on the dancing body as the primary subject of creative expression.

Scroll through this page for details on the Screendance Festival and Screendance Workshops.

SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL

ACDA’s first Screendance Festival is open to all ACDA Institutional and Individual Members. The deadline for submissions was January 5, 2021. Eighty-five (85) schools and one individual member submitted a total of 152 screendances for adjudication. All screendances will be included in one of the three Gala Concerts or in the Informal Showcase. Both the Screendance Festival Gala and the Informal Showcase will be available free of charge for viewing by ACDA members.

Screendance Festival Adjudicators

All submissions receive written feedback from three adjudicators. Adjudicators will select entries for inclusion in the ACDA Screendance Festival Gala.

Click HERE for Adjudicator Bios

Panel 1: 
Gabri Christa 
Douglas Rosenberg
Robbie Shaw

Panel 2: 
Shawn Bible
Robin Gee
Mitchell Rose

Panel 3:
John Crawford
Kathleen Kelley
Andrea Woods Valdés

Screendance Festival Schedule
(Scroll down the page for Screendance Workshops
held during the Festival)

APRIL 10, 2021 – FESTIVAL OPENING WEEKEND, DAY 1
12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDT)Opening remarks and “Meet the Adjudicators” live discussion with Gabri Christa, Douglas Rosenberg, and Robbie Shaw
12:45pm PDT (3:45pm EDT)Gala Concert #1 live stream for ACDA Members
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #1 Program
2:00pm PDT (5:00pm EDT)Opening remarks and “Meet the Adjudicators” live discussion with Shawn Bible, Robin Gee and Mitchell Rose
2:45pm PDT (5:45pm EDT)Gala Concert #2 live stream for ACDA Members
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #2 Program
4:00pm PDT (7:00pm EDT)Opening remarks and “Meet the Adjudicators” live discussion with John Crawford, Kathleen Kelley and Andrea Woods Valdés
4:45pm PDT (7:45pm EDT) Gala Concert #3 live stream for ACDA Members
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #3 Program
APRIL 11, 2021 – FESTIVAL OPENING WEEKEND, DAY 2
12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDTInformal Showcase Kick-Off Event
Keynote Speaker: Douglas Rosenberg, “Screendance in Higher Education”

The Informal Showcase will open following the conclusion of the keynote address
1:30pm PDT (4:30pm EDT)Informal Showcase — Open for on demand viewing forACDA Members through April 24
Click HERE to view the Informal Showcase Program

Gala Concerts — Open for on demand viewing for ACDA Members through April 24
APRIL 24, 2021 – FESTIVAL CLOSING
2:30PM PDT (5:30PM EDT)Festival Closing — Moving Forward with Screendance. Panel Discussion with Shawn Bible, Gabri Christa, and Mitchell Rose. Topics: Resources for Filmmakers, Applying to Festivals, Collaboration in the Creative Process, Screendance Post-Pandemic

ACDA Screendance Festival Programs
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #1 Program
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #2 Program
Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #3 Program
Click HERE to view the Informal Showcase Program

Screendance Festival Gala Concert 1 (not in program order)

Adjudicator Panel 1
• Gabri Christa • Douglas Rosenberg • Robbie Shaw •

Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #1 Program

  • Beloit College, Little Houses, Director: Gina T’ai (Faculty), Choreographer: Gina T’ai
  • Brigham Young University, Sounds European, Director: McCall McClellan (Student), Choreographer: McCall McClellan and Dancers
  • Colby College, Rehearsal: 11/3/2020, Director: Carter Breitenfeldt, Jacob Thousand, Alex Bourhas (Student), Choreographer: Carter Breitenfeldt, Jacob Thousand, Alex Bourhas
  • Scottsdale Community College, Turbulence, Director: Mike Esperanza (Guest Artist), Choreographer: Mike Esperanza
  • The Ohio State University, Interference, Director: Katie O’Loughlin (Student), Choreographer: Katie O’Loughlin
  • University of Montana, Thorazine, Director: Ruby Roberts (Student), Choreographer: Ruby Roberts
  • University of the Arts, hellostranger, Director: Miah Lapeyrolerie (Student), Choreographer: Miah Lapeyrolerie
  • Utah Valley University, Outsiders, Director: Mike Esperanza (Guest Artist), Choreographer: Mike Esperanza
  • Western Michigan University, Recode, Director: Kelsey Paschich (Faculty), Choreographer: Kelsey Paschich
  • Wichita State University, Visitors, Director: Nicholas Johnson (Faculty), Choreographers: Denise Celestin, Nicholas Johnson, Sabrina Vasquez

  • Winthrop University, If it rains…, Director: Kelly Ozust (Faculty), Choreographer: Kelly Ozust

Screendance Festival Gala Concert 2 (not in program order)

Adjudicator Panel 2
• Shawn Bible • Robin Gee • Mitchell Rose •

Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #2 Program

  • Ball State University, Reciprocity, Director: Kate Laughlin (Student), Choreographer: Kate Laughlin
  • California State University, Long Beach, low art: as i see it, Director: Keilan Stafford (Student), Choreographer: Keilan Stafford
  • Grand Valley State University, Quiet Birds in Circled Flight, Director: Matthew Gabel (Student), Choreographers: Matthew Gabel and Zach Bussert
  • Muhlenberg College, When Home, Director: Amber Dietrich (Student), Choreographer: Amber Dietrich
  • Riverside City College, Looking Forward, Director: Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier (Faculty), Choreographer: Erika Goe-Washington
  • Saint Mary’s College of California, She Remembers, Director: Holly Welpott (Student), Choreographer: Holly Welpott
  • University of Alabama, Fragile, Director: George Berry (Student), Choreographer: George Berry
  • University of Alabama, Please Take A Number, Director: Nick Thacker (Student), Choreographer: Nick Thacker
  • University of Louisiana at Monroe, HERE I AM, Director: Vanessa Kanamoto (Faculty), Choreographer: Vanessa Kanamoto

  • University of Oklahoma, falling, Director: Maggie Schoenfeld, Randi Tucker (Student), Choreographers: Maggie Schoenfeld, Randi Tucker

Screendance Festival Gala Concert 3 (not in program order)

Adjudicator Panel 3
• John Crawford • Kathleen Kelley • Andrea Woods Valdés •

Click HERE to view the Gala Concert #3 Program

  • Amherst College, Monochrome, Director: Maya Mizrahi (Student), Choreographer: Maya Mizrahi
  • California State University, Long Beach, composition: in color/ed, Director: Derrick Paris (Student), Choreographer: Derrick Paris
  • Gonzaga University, Tethered Edges, Director: Karla Parbon (Faculty), Choreographer: Karla Parbon
  • Kennesaw State University, run(A)way ACDA, Director: Thang Dao (Faculty), Choreographer: Thang Dao
  • Millikin University, The Balloon, Director: RamseyRose Folkerts (Student), Choreographer: RamseyRose Folkerts
  • The Ohio State University, Impetus, Director: Michaela Neild (Student), Choreographers: Michaela Neild and Kerry Lyn Kercher
  • Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, scattered. place., Director: Katherine Helen Fisher (Faculty), Choreographer: danah bella
  • Texas Woman’s University, Paradox, Director: Chely Jones (Student), Choreographer: Chely Jones
  • University of Florida, Same Day, Same Stuff, Director: Ariel Dykes (Student), Choreographer: Ariel Dykes in collaboration with the performers

  • University of Montana, Dreamdays, Director: Brooklyn Draper (Faculty), Choreographer: Brooklyn Draper

SCREENDANCE WORKSHOP SERIES

ACDA is pleased to offer a series of workshops as part of the first screendance initiative. The goal of the workshop series is to provide wide access to screendance education using generally available technology. The workshop series will emphasize use of mobile devices with video capabilities – pick up your iPhone or Android device and start shooting!

Workshops are open to all ACDA members. Workshops are fee-based and registration is required.

Fees for ACDA Members:

  1. One Class: $10 per participant
  2. Three Class Package: $25 per participant

For Institutional Members using institutional funds to cover workshop fees: please contact the ACDA National Office (info@acda.dance) to request an invoice for screendance workshop participation for your students and faculty. Please note: a processing fee will be added to each requested invoice. Processing fees will be scaled to the total amount of the invoice with a minimum processing fee of $3.00.

Please see workshop outline below.

WorkshopTitle PresenterDateTime
Workshop #1Basic Videography: Framing the Dancing ImageChad
Michael Hall		Nov. 7, 2020Registration Closed
Workshop #2Creative Process in Dance FilmmakingKathleen KelleyJan. 23, 2021Registration Closed
Workshop #3Cinematography and Choreography: Creating Your Visual NarrativeRobbie ShawFeb. 13, 2021Registration Closed
Workshop #4Live Streaming for Online Dance PerformanceJohn CrawfordApril 17, 202112:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Workshop #5 Movement Matching: Montage Strategies for Juxtaposition in the EditRobbie ShawApril 18, 202112:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Workshop #6The Cinematic vs. The Theatrical – Choreographing the Filmic EyeRobin GeeApril 24, 202112:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET

WORKSHOP DETAILS

WORKSHOP #1
Basic Videography:
Framing the Dancing
Image

Date: November 7, 2020
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Presenter: Chad Michael Hall



Registration for Screendance Workshop #1 is closed.

Workshop Content:
Pick up your iPhone or Android device and start shooting!

• Learn and practice basic camera shot sizes, angles and actions
• Import and edit clips to create a video sequence for continuity
• Production Roles: Director, choreographer, performer, editor
• Workshop Note: For those planning to capture video with their mobile phones: If possible, join the Zoom session on a desktop computer, laptop, or tablet so that you have your iPhone/Android device free and available to practice filming.

Workshop #2: Creative Process in Dance Filmmaking 

Date: January 23, 2021
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Presenter: Kathleen Kelley
Kathleen Kelley's Bio

Kathleen Kelley is a choreographer, media artist, and Associate Professor of Dance and Technology at Montclair State University. She is the Artistic Director of Proteo Media + Performance, a company producing art that explores the intersections between technology and the body.  She is a 2019 Gibney Work Up resident artist, a Chez Bushwick Artist in Residence in 2018, and a 2015-2016 LEIMAY Fellow. Her 2018 dance film “Territory” was published by Triquarterly Literary Magazine. She was the cinematographer for “Future Becomes Past” (2018), a dance film by Janessa Clark, which was honored as an official selection at over 10 film festivals, and her choreography was featured in Maya Beiser’s music video “AIR” that premiered on NPR First Look. In 2016, her live installation “Digitized Figures” premiered as an interactive exhibition at the Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn, and portions were featured as videos in the Philly FringeArts Digital Fringe Festival, the Moving Poems blog, the Small Po[r]tions Intermedia Literary Journal, and the Rutgers University Momentum Technology Videos Festival. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and her MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can find examples of her work here: www.proteomedia.com

Registration for Screendance Workshop #2 is closed.

Workshop Content:
In this workshop, we will explore the steps to take a dance film from idea to filming. We will cover building a strong structure for your idea using tools like treatments and storyboards, the pre-production planning steps to get to a successful filming day, and then some best practices for day of shooting.  This workshop will give you practical tools for planning and executing your film while also touching on the artistic possibilities that you can explore through filmic structure. 

• Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production
• Create shot lists, storyboards, treatments
• Filming and Editing for Montage

WORKSHOP #3
Cinematography and Choreography:
Creating Your Visual Narrative

Date: February 13, 2021
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Presenter: Robbie Shaw
Robbie Shaw's Bio


Roberta Shaw (MFA – Ohio State University, BA – U.C. Berkeley) Straddling the artforms of dance and film for over twenty years, Robbie Shaw has worked professionally as dancer, choreographer, dance instructor, filmmaker, and television editor.  She has created films and projection designs with notable choreographers including David Rousseve – “Bittersweet,” 2003,  Victoria Marks – “Smallest Gesture, Grandest Frame,” 2010,  Lynn Dally – “American Tap Masters,” 2007,  and Bebe Miller’s “Landing/Place,” 2002.  In 2001, she was a co-recipient for a BETHA Grant while on staff at The Ohio State University, to co-create the educational tool entitled “FECHE!  Dancing In Senegal,” and DanceCODES,” a dance documentation project funded by Pew Charitable Trust’s NIPAD grant. Robbie has created dozens of choreographic works for both the stage and screen, often incorporating contemporary dance with media and theatre, and empowered by activist themes about our environment, civil rights, and consumerism. These projects have been presented at Dance Camera West, Utah Dance Film Festival, Dance Films Association, RedCAT, Wexner Center for the Arts, Highways, ARC Pasadena, Artist’s Television Access, ODC/SF, and more  She has received several grants for her interdisciplinary work, including a DURFEE ARC grant for her dancefilm “Dominion” created @ Noah Purifoy Outdoor Artsite. She has had the pleasure of dancing for choreographers including Neil Greenberg, Maria Gillespie (ONI Dance), Bebe Miller, Victoria Uris, Rebecca Pappas, Kristina Isabelle’s HIJINK Dance, Kneejerk Dance Collective, Dance Brigade, Project Bandaloop, and Deborah Rosen.  Her choreographic credits for television, film and musical theatre include the City of Pasadena’s “Keep the Change,”campaign,  along with the films “Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present,” 2017,  the short film “Lovely,” of 2019, and URINETOWN, the Musical at PCC.  She currently enjoys teaching screen dance at CalARTS, and general dance curriculum at Pasadena City College.

Registration for Screendance Workshop #3 is closed.

Workshop Content:
This workshop will explore coordinations between choreography and camera, considering depth, frame, perspective, revealing and concealing, as well as stylized shots.  Participants will leave this workshop with tactics for building more compelling sequence shots that direct the eye by way of blocking and framing.  

• Mis en Scène – 10 components
• Composition and Form

WORKSHOP #4
Live Streaming for Online Dance Performance

Date: April 17, 2021
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Registration Deadline: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 11:00am PT
Presenter:  John Crawford
John Crawford's Bio


John Crawford is an intermedia artist, performance director and interaction designer. He uses computers and video to create rich immersive environments for embodied interaction with dance, theatre and music. His projects are presented online, performed in theatres and exhibited as public art installations. His research and creative activity centers on making artworks that provide compelling interactive experiences for diverse communities, building upon the emerging technologies of our time.

He is Professor of Intermedia Arts in the Dance Department at University of California, Irvine, where he initiated and directs the Emergent Media Research Group, featuring a range of projects, courses and collaboratories that integrate socially engaged artmaking with emergent media and connected design. At UCI he has served in various leadership roles. He is a strong advocate for UCI’s initiatives to expand transdisciplinary arts-based creativity, including the campus-wide Digital Arts Minor program which he directed for nine years.

More information: http://jc.embodied.net



Registration for Screendance Workshop #4 is closed.

Workshop Content:
With recent advances in online technologies, anyone with a smartphone and a social media account can stream live dance at low or no cost. This workshop will provide an experiential introduction to live streaming for online dance performance. We’ll use the Streamyard live production system to explore performance techniques applicable to a wide variety of platforms.

Participants will have the opportunity to perform a short dance phrase in an online performance created during the workshop on Streamyard and presented on YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo. Anyone who opts not to perform will be able to watch the entire creative process as observers on Zoom.

Requirements for performers:
• Reliable Internet connection (strong WiFi preferred)
• Computer or mobile device supporting the Streamyard requirements listed here: https://streamyard.com/resources/docs/guest-instructions

Requirements for observers:
• Computer or mobile device with the latest version of Zoom installed

WORKSHOP #5
Movement Matching: Montage Strategies for Juxtaposition
in the Edit

Date: April 18, 2021
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Registration Deadline: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 11:00am PT
Presenter:  Robbie Shaw
Robbie Shaw's Bio

Roberta Shaw (MFA – Ohio State University, BA – U.C. Berkeley) Straddling the artforms of dance and film for over twenty years, Robbie Shaw has worked professionally as dancer, choreographer, dance instructor, filmmaker, and television editor.  She has created films and projection designs with notable choreographers including David Rousseve – “Bittersweet,” 2003,  Victoria Marks – “Smallest Gesture, Grandest Frame,” 2010,  Lynn Dally – “American Tap Masters,” 2007,  and Bebe Miller’s “Landing/Place,” 2002.  In 2001, she was a co-recipient for a BETHA Grant while on staff at The Ohio State University, to co-create the educational tool entitled “FECHE!  Dancing In Senegal,” and DanceCODES,” a dance documentation project funded by Pew Charitable Trust’s NIPAD grant. Robbie has created dozens of choreographic works for both the stage and screen, often incorporating contemporary dance with media and theatre, and empowered by activist themes about our environment, civil rights, and consumerism. These projects have been presented at Dance Camera West, Utah Dance Film Festival, Dance Films Association, RedCAT, Wexner Center for the Arts, Highways, ARC Pasadena, Artist’s Television Access, ODC/SF, and more  She has received several grants for her interdisciplinary work, including a DURFEE ARC grant for her dancefilm “Dominion” created @ Noah Purifoy Outdoor Artsite. She has had the pleasure of dancing for choreographers including Neil Greenberg, Maria Gillespie (ONI Dance), Bebe Miller, Victoria Uris, Rebecca Pappas, Kristina Isabelle’s HIJINK Dance, Kneejerk Dance Collective, Dance Brigade, Project Bandaloop, and Deborah Rosen.  Her choreographic credits for television, film and musical theatre include the City of Pasadena’s “Keep the Change,”campaign,  along with the films “Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present,” 2017,  the short film “Lovely,” of 2019, and URINETOWN, the Musical at PCC.She currently enjoys teaching screen dance at CalARTS, and general dance curriculum at Pasadena City College.

Registration for Screendance Workshop #5 is closed.

Workshop Content:
In this workshop, participants will consider ways of Identifying logic, creating flow and revealing theme through a variety of match types in the montage of footage. Roberta Shaw will introduce various montage approaches through examples and lecture/demonstration. Participants will then explore these ideas through an experiential real-time edit exercise using Instagram as a tool for workshopping concepts.

Requirements for performers:
• Reliable Internet connection (strong WiFi preferred)
• Mobile device supporting Instagram with the latest version of the app installed
• Computer or mobile device with the latest version of Zoom installed

Requirements for observers:
• Computer or mobile device with the latest version of Zoom installed

WORKSHOP #6
The Cinematic vs. The Theatrical – Choreographing the Filmic Eye

Date: April 24, 2021
Time: 12:00 PT/ 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET
Length: 2 Hours
Registration Deadline: Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 11:00am PT
Presenter: Robin Gee
Robbie Shaw's Bio


Robin Gee holds is a choreographer and filmmaker specializing in African, Caribbean, and Modern dance techniques. She is an Associate Professor at UNC Greensboro where she teaches African and Contemporary dance as well as Composition and Screendance courses on both graduate and undergraduate levels. . Her choreographic works have appeared in the North Carolina Dance Festival, Dumbo Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as resident works mounted on various colleges and universities around the world. She is the recipient of the West African Research Association’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African Research, the Central Piedmont Artist’s Hub Grant for her work on Mande Culture.  She is most recently the recipient of the Fulbright Scholars Award for her work on Urban Griots: R(e) Imaginaing the Word, studying griot cultures in Mali and Burkina Faso. She is the recipient of the American Association of University Women’s Post Doctoral Research Award for her work on The Mande Legacy, a dance documentation project for which spent six months in Guinea. In 2006 Ms Gee also formed her own company Sugarfoote Productions, a multipurpose service organization designed to expose communities to the myriad expressions evident in African art and to help local audiences experience the richness of African and Diasporan cultural traditions. Sugarfoote also co-produces the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, a boutique dance film festival screening films from around the world. Ms. Gee’s own dance films have currently screened in 27 film festivals worldwide including but not limited to: ADF Movies by Movers;  Screen Dance International; Aphrodite Film Festival; Indie Boom; Global Film Festival; Central States Indie Fest; L.I.M.P.A Festival; Adirondack Film Festival; Festival International Videodanza; Movimiento de Movimientos; CKF International Festival; PRISMA Dance Fest; Independent Shorts Awards; Frame x Frame Film Festival; Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, Dance Camera West: Scripted and Screening: The Dancing Body Politic: (LA), NCDF Moving Movers, Screendance in the Landscape (Scotland); Studio Faire Artists Residence Program (France).

Registration for Screendance Workshop #6 is closed.

Workshop Content:
Taking theatrical performances and reconfiguring for the screen can be a daunting task. To re-image the three dimensional as a two dimensional construct is hard enough, but decisions about the what, where, and how are equally challenging.  How does the camera provide access to points in space (aka the body) that live performance does not? How does the camera lens become a newly informed performance space?

This workshop will explore the ways in which collaborators —dancers/choreographers/filmmakers/editors — can approach  dance performance and structure as dance film. Through lecture-demonstration and experiential learning, participants will engage in exercises that explore the filmic eye — modes of seeing that expand considerations of the performative body in relation to the camera lens.

Requirements for performers: 
• Reliable Internet connection (strong WiFi preferred) 
• Camera device such as an iPhone/Android, GoPro, DSLR or other video camera 
• Computer or mobile device with the latest version of Zoom installed

Requirements for observers: 
• Computer or mobile device with the latest version of Zoom installed