Exploring Screendance with Adi Halfin (ISR/GER)

Workshop Contents:

Dancing with The Camera // Adi Halfin

A cinematic approach to dance films with director and screenwriter Adi Halfin (“Home Alone”, “True Love Waits”, “Earth Odyssey”).

This intensive two-day workshop will explore Adi’s unique working methods and approach to dance films, focusing on intention and intuition.
Through viewing different genres of dance films (music videos, documentaries, experimental films or commercials) we will examine the tools of filmmaking and their use in creating captivating visual dance films, which tell unique stories and lead the audience through the magnificent world of dance films.

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 3. November 2023, 09:30 – 17:30 + Saturday 4. November 2023, 09:00 – 13:00

Workshoppers Coffee Meetup:
Friday 3. November 2023, 09:00 – 09:30 at Kunsthauscafe

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

Our Screendance Workshop is supported by Stadt Graz Kultur, Land Steiermark Kultur-Europa-Sport and Bundesministerium für Kunst, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

About:

Adi Halfin (adihalfin.com) is an award winning director and screenwriter. Her short films have traveled the world in prestigious festivals such as Cannes and Berlinale and won numerous prizes worldwide.

“HOME ALONE”, which she directed for the Batsheva Dance Company has won ten international prizes, including Best Commercial and Best Inspirational at the LA Film Awards, and Best Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

Coming from a background of art and music, Adi loves to challenge the borders of filmmaking and get involved in as many disciplines as possible – be it dance, fashion or fine arts. Music and dance are her biggest passions and she strives to showcase this passion in every part of the aesthetic details in her expressive works.

Her interpretation to Radiohead’s „True Love Waits“ featuring world- renowned dancer-choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith, has won seven awards, including Best Unofficial Music Video at the Los Angeles Music Video Festival, 2017.

Adi’s work for Toyota’s Impossible Stories offers an arresting portrayal of athlete Dergin Tokmak, and was subsequently shortlisted at Cannes.

In addition to directing, Adi teaches production and directing in film schools, and dance film workshops around the world. Adi is currently working on her first feature film and directing music videos, documentaries and commercials.