The MDC Talks | A Screendance Podcast

Motion Dance Collective
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Hosted by the Motion Dance Collective team, Omari 'Motion' Carter, Anna Clifford, and James Williams Specialising in the creation, presentation and education of dance-on-film practice, our work is catered to artists/companies with an interest in developing & distributing works that bridge the gap between moving body and moving image. We encourage our listeners to join in the conversation and leave their comments and constructive criticism upon listening. Follow us @themdcollective www.motiondancecollective.com

  1. 09/22/2024

    SEASON 3 Ep5~ Katrina McPherson | The MDC Talks: A Screendance Podcast

    In this episode of The MDC Talks, we talk with Katrina McPherson; award-winning artist, performer, scholar, curator, and educationalist whose research and practice has contributed to the evolution of screendance for more than 30 years. Currently Katrina is running the MA in Screendance course at The Place (London). Omari and Katrina connected many years ago at LightMoves Festival in 2014 and over the years have supported one another's work. We talk with Katrina about her PHD, the significance of collaboration in her work and the choice to put herself in front of the camera, the upcoming 3rd edition of her book 'Making Video Dance' and more! Katrina McPherson https://www.katrinamcpherson.com/ @katrinammcphersonart References:  Making Video Dance by Dr Katrina McPherson - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Video-Dance-Step-Step/dp/1138699136 The Time it Takes - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thetimeittakes Paysages Mixte - https://www.katrinamcpherson.com/art?pgid=kkfkyjl3-12c7d941-1897-4ed6-bc21-17291356947f Screendance in the Landscape workshops -https://www.makingvideodance.com/workshops Luisa - https://vimeo.com/katrinamcpherson MA in Screendance at The Place - https://theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses/mascreendance Moment - https://www.makingvideodance.com/#/moment/ Florence Peake performance - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/18/florence-peake-review-factual-actual-ensemble-southwark-park-galleries motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1h 5m

  2. 05/15/2024

    SEASON 3 Ep4~ Douglas Rosenberg | The MDC Talks: A Screendance Podcast

    In this episode of The MDC Talks, we talk with Douglas Rosenberg; writer, theorist and artist working at the intersection of performance, media and object-making. Currently Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and an award winning filmmaker whose work for the screen has been exhibited internationally for over 30 years. Omari and Doug connected many years ago at LightMoves Festival in 2014 and he has since become a mentor and friend. We discuss Doug's desire for more critical writing about screendance, the godmother of experimental cinema, platform determinism, how the award culture of the industry is fuelling a specific type of work and more! Douglas Rosenberg https://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/ @rosenberg_douglas References:  Moving Sites by Dr Victoria Winter - https://www.routledge.com/Moving-Sites-Investigating-Site-Specific-Dance-Performance/Hunter/p/book/9780415713252 Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image - https://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/screendance-inscribing-the-ephemeral-image Screendance Symposium 2022 - https://screendancesymposium.art.wisc.edu/archive/2022-symposium/ Amy Greenfield - https://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/amy-greenfield Robert Raschenberg - https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/performance-history Paul Taylor - https://www.youtube.com/paultaylordance Hofesh Shechter - https://hofesh.co.uk/film/ Merce Cunningham (Blue Studio) - https://www.mercecunningham.org/the-work/choreography/blue-studio-five-segments-videodance/ Beach Birds for Camera - https://vimeo.com/141096694 Song of Songs - https://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/11225414-song-of-songs After Quarantine: The Future of Screendance (Roundtable) - https://screendancejournal.org/index.php/screendance/article/view/8347/6100 Chirstinn Whyte - https://screendancejournal.org/index.php/screendance/article/view/6145 Circling - https://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/circling Here Now with Sally Gross (documentary) - https://vimeo.com/118514611 CHAMBRE (LA) - https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/chambre-la motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1h 28m

  3. 04/11/2024

    SEASON 3 Ep3~ Cara Hagan | The MDC Talks: A Screendance Podcast

    In this episode of The MDC Talks, we talk with Cara Hagan; mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. We have always admired Cara's approach to making art, we have championed each others practice from afar and finally connected in person in 2018. In this conversation we talk about curation, black bodies on screen, navigating the festival circuit, her book 'Screendance from Film to Festival: Celebration and Curatorial Practice' and more! Cara Hagan https://carahagan.net/ @carahagan_art References:  Screendance from Film to Festival: Celebration and Curatorial Practice - https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/screendance-from-film-to-festival/ Cygnus - https://youtu.be/0yxsTerwHjA?si=ZfSU2iZDi7l1IjNh ADF Movies by Movers - https://americandancefestival.org/movies-by-movers/ Cut Me Summa Dat Noise Film - @cutmesummadatnoise_film Funding Bodies by Sarah Wilbur - https://www.weslpress.org/9780819580528/funding-bodies/ NYCB New Works Festival - https://www.nycballet.com/discover/stories/the-making-of-the-2021-summer-session-films/ 1 - https://youtu.be/4qOGsKdvz1o?si=vvV_5R8e7E_51Wfy 2 - https://youtu.be/ihw4QM7YebQ?si=sget-g8KN_730aBg 3 - https://youtu.be/O_0JmVMovu0?si=IoYn36n1wRqnmRqi 4 - https://youtu.be/VUc188WtE08?si=jvfPAGq9s3BtXKXI 5 - https://youtu.be/g1CVEGFcN44?si=DpnvOaETu6cTONMK In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch- https://www.amazon.co.uk/BLINK-EYE-NEW-EDN-New/dp/1879505622 What is urban dance on screen? | Omari Carter Video Essay - https://vimeo.com/328049558 Ode to an Unapologetically Free and Sacred Body - https://youtu.be/Se-paC7a8wM?si=ljHitZpDLQUCiBvY motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    56 min

  4. 10/18/2023

    SEASON 3 Ep2~ Gitta Wigro | The MDC Talks: A Screendance Podcast

    In this episode of The MDC Talks, we talk with Gitta Wigro; an arts professional with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in dance-film and dance. We met Gitta on the dance-film festival circuit and became fast friends, sharing her interest in connecting people and ideas. In this conversation we talk curation, connectors, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, teaching practice, research and more! Gitta Wigro gittawigro.com https://www.facebook.com/gitta.wigro Screendance calendar - https://screendancecalendar.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR35N9P4sXRnZl_0JoE9KXQK3DZ0gl17msdh26plkUgq20vP6ZqMpDvJc9c References:  'Boy' by Rosemary Lee & Peter Anderson - https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/project/boy/ 'Hands' by Adam Roberts & Jonathan Burrows - https://vimeo.com/388689595 ' A Drifting Up' by Jacob Lee - https://youtu.be/3ctLXHdb4dY Rosemary Butcher - rosemarybutcher.com motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1h 30m

  5. 05/10/2023

    SEASON 3 Ep1 ~ Reunion | The MDC Talks: A Screendance Podcast

    The MDC Talks is BACK and we cannot wait to continue our creative conversations around all things dance-film with the incredible guests we have lined up for Season 3! The MDC team returns after a hiatus, lots of exciting projects and some big moves. In this episode, we get you up to speed on where the team is at and what we've been doing for the last 2 years. We hope you'll enjoy reconnecting with us and the upcoming stimulating conversations about bridging the gap between moving body and moving image.

    36 min
  6. The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 12: Wilkie Branson

    07/24/2021

    The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 12: Wilkie Branson

    In episode 12 of Season 2 on The MDC Talks, Anna Clifford and Omari ‘Motion’ Carter talk with Wilkie Branson; a self-taught interdisciplinary dance artist and filmmaker, currently based in the United Kingdom.  His latest feature length work TOM is commencing its international tour and currently being showcased at La Bienniale de Venezia 23/07/2021 - 01/08/2021.   Wilkie expresses how the focus of his work always lies in the practice and not the product.  His early days of studying b-boying techniques were how he first entered into film and he was later drawn to animation because of its power to create something from nothing.  The evolution of his artistic practice is inspired by landscape, architecture and how the choreography within the environment & surroundings can impact and support telling stories through dance on screen.  Wilkie explains how his latest work is about reconnecting with your inner child.  He shares how the process of making the work reconnected him with his own family, some of the technical challenges and his most significant takeaway from the making of TOM.   Wilkie Branson:  https://www.wilkiebranson.com/ Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/wilkiebransonInstagram @wilkiebranson  Twitter @WilkieBranson   References:  ‘Little Dreams’: https://vimeo.com/128052930 ‘End of the Block’: https://vimeo.com/73935264 ‘White Caps’: https://vimeo.com/11272451 ‘TOM’: https://vimeo.com/wilkiebranson/tomtrail Making TOM - Part 3 - Available on Wilkie’s instagram @wilkiebranson  La Bienniale di Venezia - https://www.labiennale.org/en/dance/2021/wilkie-branson-tom    WATCH ‘TOM’ HERE: https://vimeo.com/wilkiebranson/tomfilm  *Exclusively available to our listeners for 4 weeks only!!   motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1 hr
  7. The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 11: Jevan Chowdhury

    07/11/2021

    The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 11: Jevan Chowdhury

    In this episode of The MDC Talks, The MDC team speak with Jevan Chowdhury; a multimedia artist and film director who works in commercial art and is currently based in London, UK. Jevan is the Director of creative agency, Wind & Foster and creator of the multi-award-winning Moving Cities Project. Jevan explains how he doesn’t connect with the term screendance because he finds it limiting and prefers to label his work as film. He describes the motivation behind starting his company, choosing a metaphoric name and touches on the creative opportunity cost of running a business. Which leads us into a conversation about his ‘Moving Cities’ project, which started as an experiment. He gives us insight into the process, the initial reluctance to take risks and capturing the movement of the city. He champions the importance of watching dance so that as a filmmaker you learn how to choreograph with the camera, anticipate movement and communicate across disciplines. Jevan Chowdhury: Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/movingcitiesproject Instagram @movingcitiesproject @windandfoster Twitter @Jevanchow References: Wind & Foster - https://windandfoster.com/ Moving Cities - https://www.moving-cities.com/ motiondancecollective.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective Twitter: @TheMDCollective Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1h 23m
  8. The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 10: Sima Gonsai

    06/14/2021

    The MDC Talks: Season 2 | A Screendance Podcast | Episode 10: Sima Gonsai

    In episode 10 of Season 2 on The MDC Talks, The MDC team speak with Sima Gonsai; award-winning filmmaker and director born and raised in the North of England and now based in the Midlands.  Sima's exploration of film work began in 1998 and she is passionate about telling powerful narratives through the movements of body, film and music. Sima talks about how her childhood lessons in Bharatnatyam dance and love of watching Bollywood initially drew her to filmmaking.  Her debut dance-film KITA, made during her MA in Visual Communication, was an exploration of the vibrancy of Indian classical dance and took 9 months to create.  This experience of experimentation with film taught her about perseverance, how to add colour to your work and gifted her an understanding of movement within a frame.  Sima describes her journey of making Cycle Dialogues and the joy in exploring communities across the globe with a bicycle and a camera before diving into her work with Freefall Dance Company, an experience that encouraged her to brainstorm what went into making a dance-film with and for complex disabled artists.  She describes the significance of creating work that audiences can experience and not just watch and also touches on the challenges and responsibility of making dance-film within this space. Sima Gonsai:  www.simagonsaifilms.com Instagram - @simagonsaifilms Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/simagonsai References: KITA: https://www.simagonsaifilms.com/kita Len Lye: https://govettbrewster.com/news/2017/4/spotlight-on-len-lyes-filmmaking-tools-the-stencil https://youtu.be/-DksmbDMDUU Norman McLaren: https://theconversation.com/norman-mclaren-a-late-great-animator-now-drawing-applause-27506 Cycle Dialogues: https://www.simagonsaifilms.com/cycle-dialogues-film Freefall: https://www.simagonsaifilms.com/freefall-film One Fine Day: https://www.simagonsaifilms.com/one-fine-day-film Screen.dance 2020 Artist Presentation: https://www.screen.dance/festival-2021/artists-presentations-1-4/sima-gonsai-artist-presentation/ Suspended Motion: https://vimeo.com/383081456 motiondancecollective.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMotionDanceCollective  Twitter: @TheMDCollective  Instagram: @TheMDCollective

    1h 18m
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Hosted by the Motion Dance Collective team, Omari 'Motion' Carter, Anna Clifford, and James Williams Specialising in the creation, presentation and education of dance-on-film practice, our work is catered to artists/companies with an interest in developing & distributing works that bridge the gap between moving body and moving image. We encourage our listeners to join in the conversation and leave their comments and constructive criticism upon listening. Follow us @themdcollective www.motiondancecollective.com

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