Swindon Dance - dance on film

At Swindon Dance, we run programmes designed to support choreographers making work in a range of camerawork-related contexts, including dance video in live performance and on screen.

Our programmes have been devised by the artist professional development team, who continue to provide opportunities taylor-made for choreographers using the camera.

ALL DANCE + THE CAMERA ENQUIRIES
TEL +44 (0)1793 601700
10am-6pm Monday to Friday
artistdevelopment@swindondance.org.uk

Marie Louise Flexen and Laila Diallo
photo: Mark Pepperall

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OUR CURRENT PARTNERS

Swindon Dance is contributing to the strategic development of dance and the camera through its work in partnership with other agencies, which include ...

— Create Studios
— Swindon Film Festival
— South West Dance for Camera Strategy group with Dance South West

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

DANCE + FILM DANSLAB

An annual intensive week in the studio for a choreographer wanting to do creative research with experienced filmmaker Peter Anderson, our artist in residence and associate artist. A chance to try out ways of working, discuss practice in either art form, or find a way of creating material through the camera lens.
— Bursary and core equipment are provided.
— Candidates are sought by advertisement and the next ads will appear in summer 2008.
— Previous DansLab award recipients include: Kyra Norman, Angela Praed, Lisa May Thomas, Adrienne Hart, Robin Dingemans.

DANCE ROUGH CUTS

Up to five choreographers/videomakers are selected to screen works in progress, first edits or edited work for feedback from Peter Anderson at an event attended by other artists. The idea is to support dialogue on dance and the camera and help makers move forward creatively. A call for candidates is advertised each summer for Dance Rough Cuts, held each autumn.

ONE-TO-ONE ADVICE DAYS

One-to-one advice sessions provide a chance to talk through your plans, ideas or questions about dance for camera with Peter Anderson. Held twice a year, in winter and summer. For details, email artistdevelopment@swindondance.org.uk.

INTENSIVES

We have devised a series of intensives specifically for choreographers looking to develop their skills and choreography for the camera. They include: Dance for Camera, Dance Edits and Dance Video in Live Performance: The Choreographer's Choices.
A Dance for Camera intensive will be held in 2008/9 — details to be confirmed.
To register interest email artistdevelopment@swindondance.org.uk.

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THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

SPRING
— INTENSIVE

SUMMER
— ONE-TO-ONE-ADVICE day
— call for candidates for Dance Rough Cuts
— call for candidates for dansLab

AUTUMN
— DANCE + FILM DANSLAB
— DANCE ROUGH CUTS

WINTER
— ONE-TO-ONE-ADVICE day

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

PETER ANDERSON

Swindon Dance artist in residence, Peter Anderson, is a television director, filmmaker and visual artist working in dance and theatre.

Peter has contributed to the Swindon Dance programme for choreographers and the camera since its inception in 2003. He is currently a Swindon Dance associate artist. The photo shows Peter working during our Easter Recess 2007 : Dance and Video in Live Performance (photo: Mark Pepperall).

His teaching experience includes many art and design degree courses in the UK, five years at the Slade School of Art and 20 years as a visiting lecturer, MA film and TV design course, Kingston University, where he is a research fellow. He has led dance for camera workshops for professional choreographers, filmmakers and composers in the UK and Europe.

Movement and dance on screen have been central to his work for over 20 years. This is highlighted by his acclaimed short film Boy (1995), followed by Greenman (1998) and Infanta (2000). All were created in collaboration with choreographer Rosemary Lee for broadcast on BBC2.

In 2001, as a sequel to Boy, they made Brink with performer Tom Evans, which was commissioned by Swindon Dance. It was made for a programme of film and dance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Also in 2001, Peter and Rosemary made Dancing Nation, a documentary funded by the Millennium Commission for the UK Foundation for Community Dance.