EIVV 2022 Dancing with the camera

In the 9th edition of the EIVV (Encontre Internacional de Videodansa i Videoperformance) or International Meeting of Videodance and Videoperformance, we have opted for a presentation in the form of an online programme (Théma-exhibition in four chapters), where everyone is free to discover the pieces in any order, and a Collection for EIVV 2022.

This year we have selected 25 screendance works from the 1223 submissions from all over the world. The quantity and quality of screendance production is impressive and vivacious. We include in this exhibition of “Dancing with the camera” works focusing on the dancing body. We have favoured the long format, with two feature films from Nigeria (EDÚNJOBÍ) and Italy (Elegia delle cose perdute). 

Blas Payri, director of EIVV

Screendance feature films

Developing the long structure

We have given voice to ambitious screendance features that use cinematic techniques to develop the fusion of dance and everyday activities in real places.

EDÚNJOBÍ is using the daily activities of the people in Nigeria, including cooking and eating, with the dance that emerges from these activities.

Elegia delle cose perdute takes us to different remote places of the island of Sardinia, to show us the states of marginal characters struggling with unresolved existential problems, using pure dance and the camera that dances with the characters alternating with the daily scenes.

EDÚNJOBÍ (55:10, Nigeria, dir. Qudus Onikeku)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/edunjobi

Elegia delle cose perdute (47:51, Italy, dir. Stefano Mazzotta)

The Italian works Una finestra, La nostra terra, and X Fastidiosa, and the Russian piece Lullaby are all using the natural or urban contexts to integrate the dance and the real life in its context.

In this pieces, a very masterful and creative editing contributes to creating a rhythm and building a choreography.

Lullaby (14:27, Russia, dir. Anna Ushannka)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/lullaby

Una finestra che respira la città (07:00, Italy, dir. Elisa Lacicerchia)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/una-finestra-che-respira-la-citta

La Nostra Terra (17:00, Italy, dir. Thomas Born)

X Fastidiosa (01:00, Italy, dir. Tizo All, Marc Philipp Gabriel)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/x-fastidiosa

Screendance with a message

Dramatic expression of dance editing

This chapter includes works where the dancing body is paramount to build an expressive or dramatic effect.

A link with Ukraine and its dramatic context can be found in Veruytina’s Practice of falling, made in collaboration with artists from Belarus and Ukraine. L’ombre du doute makes also a reference to this dramatic context.

100m uses a single shot that choreographs the camera, body and lights in the claustrophobic space of a hallway.

Practice of falling (08:51, Russia-Ukraine-Belarus, dir. Dina Veruytina)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/practice-falling

L’ombre du doute (03:13, France, dir. Feike Santbergen, Sanne Kortooms)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/lombre-du-doute

100m (05:43, Poland, dir. Monika Szpunar)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/100m

The body dances with the camera

Exploring rhythm and trajectory

This chapter includes works that explore the qualities of body and camera movement with editing.

It’s not just a disco, Ritmo and Reorienting the fall explore the relations of dance, camera movement, music and editing, using spaces that can be out of line with the action of pure dance.

It’s not just a disco under the coconut trees. It’s an initiation (04:27, Greece, dir. Anastasia Diga)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/its-not-just-disco-under-coconut-trees-its-initiation

Ritmo (03:17, France, dir. Maxime MICHEL)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/ritmo

Reorienting the Fall (05:00, Netherlands, dir. Christopher Tym)

https://www.numeridanse.tv/videotheque-danse/reorienting-fall

Credits

Blas Payri: creation and organization of the exhibition EIVV 2022. Curation of the program.

Blas Payri and Alma Llerena: selection and curation of the works.