Dance and Film Summer Workshop

Rebekah Morin, Jody Oberfelder, and Jenny Mendez in Moved (2003), Photo by Julie Lemberger

Rebekah Morin, Jody Oberfelder, and Jenny Mendez in Moved (2003), Photo by Julie Lemberger

Hey Dancers! This morning, I received an email from dancer Marissa Sher, one of my former classmates at Barnard, about a really cool summer workshop called "Partnering with Camera" taught by Jody Oberfelder. She provided their official press release which I have copy and pasted for you below. It seems like a really interesting workshop, so check it out!

Partnering with Camera - Physical and Visual Imagination

At Bearnstow on Parker Pond

Taught by Jody Oberfelder
August 10-16, 2008

This workshop will explore how the interaction of camera and movement creates kinetic imagery. We will create dance films that will explore the relationships between movement and visual elements. We will work with physical imagination, storyboarding, and hands-on camera work, finding an individual vocabulary. Each day will include a physical morning class, followed by afternoons developing studies for film: investigating site-specific locations and choreographing for the camera to find the unique language of dance and film. All levels of experience are welcome. Video cameras recommended.

JODY OBERFELDER creates emotionally and intellectually provocative work that distills the movement of every day life. She has shown her richly varied work in New York City at Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Symphony Space, PS 122; and nationally at Jacob's Pillow, MASS MoCA, The Yard, and other venues; and internationally at the Centre National de la Danse de Paris, the Belgrade Dance Festival, Serbia, the Festival of Modern Dance in Seoul, Korea, and the State Theater of Montenegro in Podorica. Her films have been screened at the Walter Reade Theater in the Dance on Camera Festival, Milan Doc Festival, in DTW's Captured Series, Dance Camera West, ADF's Dancing for the Camera, Outvideo (Russia) among others.  Jody's dance film, LineAge, received the People's Choice Award for 2007 from Cinedans. This past year Jody was selected as a 2007-2008 Joyce Resident Artist. See also www.jodyoberfelder.com.

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