Dance On Screen is the first videodance festival in Austria. It takes place in Graz, UNESCO city of Design, Cultural Capital of Europe 2003 and capital city of Styria annually since 2016.
It is an international dance film festival and includes a range of short films that celebrate the immediacy of dance combined with the intimacy of the camera’s eyes: short films, shown through movement.
Videodance got an universal language, since it is not only combined with a given tongue, but with a visual and more immediate emotional impact. There is a huge diversity making a product of short-dance-film, that has something to do both with the way to film a choreography and the way to create a choreography for the film.
The same concept of choreography becomes much wider: choreography is generated by filmed movements, but also by the movement of the camera, by the cutting, by the rhythm of the images, or by the colors or the landscapes.
Dance On Screen wants to show this variety, looking for short-dance-films that manifest their own artistic aesthetics and are engaged in that breadth of strategy of creating choreography.
DANCE ON SCREEN AWARD Jury
2016/17:
Sarah Taylor – Australia, choreographer and dancer, currently Maîtres de ballet at Balletto di Roma
Hallgrim Hansegård – Norway, artistic director and choreographer of Frikar
Giuseppe Domingo Romano – Italy, director, film producer and head of Except house production.
2018:
Sarah Taylor – Australia, choreographer and dancer, currently Maîtres de ballet at Balletto di Roma Gabor Pinter – Hungary, director of the Szerpentin Dance Film Festival Budapest
Stefan Schmid – Austria, head of the Graz film production company AVbaby.
2019:
Liz King – UK/Austria, artistic director of the Choreographisches Zentrum Burgenland, choreographer
Sebastian Höglinger – Austria, festival director of Diagonale – Festival des österreichischen Films
Sarah Möller – Germany, curator of the Pool Tanzfilm Festival Berlin.
2020/21:
Melanie Suchy – Germany, cultural journalist for dance, performance and theater, editor for the commemorative publications for the German Dance Prize, member of several boards of trustees for project funds and artist awards and lecturer at the Folkwang University of Arts Essen
Katia Huemer – Austria, curator at the museum for contemporary arts Kunsthaus Graz since 2004 and writer of publications in the field of Arts
Alex Pachón – Spain, art director and digital artist in the field of film, tv and performing arts. Co-director of FIVER dance film festival Madrid
The festival location:
Since 2019 the festival is taking place at Space04 in Kunsthaus Graz, the museum of modern art that was built as part of the programme for the European Capital of Culture 2003, designed by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier.
The first three festival editions took place at Filmzentrum Rechbauerkino in Graz. This is an avantgarde cinema located in one of the most picturesque streets of the old town. Rechbauerkino is a reference point for ‚culture-hungry people‘ and is a must in the cultural scene of Graz.