Zum Inhalt springen

Screendance Workshop 2022

    Exploring Screendance with Gitta Wigro (UK)

    Workshop Contents:

    What is “screendance”?
    Two days to delve into what this artform and practice can be.

    • Watch and discuss a wide range of work
    • Explore the field, its practices, histories and current debates
    • Resource your further interests

    Aimed at those interested in screendance either from a practical or theoretical perspective.

    The workshop will be held in English. Der Workshop findet in englischer Sprache statt.

    Workshop Schedule:
    Friday 4. November 2022, 10:00 – 18:00 + Saturday 5. November 2022, 10:00 – 13:30

    Workshop Location:
    Space 04 im Kunsthaus Graz, Lendkai 1, Graz

    Workshop Fee (the workshop fee includes an All Access Pass for the Festival):
    80 €

    Workshop Registration and Questions:
    workshop@danceonscreen.at

    The image shows Gitta, a white woman with short brown curly hair, dark-rimmed glasses. She is sitting at a desk with her arms folded in front of her.

    About:

    Gitta Wigro is a freelance dance film programmer based in London, UK.

    She has worked as guest programmer, speaker and jury member for, among others, American Dance Festival (USA), La Danza in 1 Minuto (Italy), BFI FLARE (UK), Big Dance Shorts (UK), and Light Moves (Ireland).

    Gitta was the course leader for the on the Screendance MA at London Contemporary Dance School (maternity cover 2020-2021) and continues to work on the management of the course. Since the inception of the course, she has led a module on presenting screendance work and in that role facilitates the student-led dance film festival Frame Rush.

    She is a programmer for the Screendance Competition at Leeds International Film Festival and co-director of Kinesthesia.

    Her work in dance film started at The Place, where Gitta was part of Videoworks, The Place’s resource for dance film makers, from 2000 to 2007. Videoworks comprised a video library, production facilities and the annual Dance on Screen film festival, and Gitta took over its management in 2004.

    She curated the annual Video Dance project for Anticorpi XL (Italy) from 2006-2014, and was co-curator of the 2010 edition of Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen (UK).