The focus of the dance film laboratory is on creativity and research. All participants are equal and work together exploring and experimenting with the merging of film and dance.
This experimental laboratory brings together film-makers, choreographers and dancers into teams that are given challenging creative tasks. The laboratory functions as a collective think tank that aims to develop and urge participants forward from one experiment to the next, bringing experiments to life and rejoicing: “It’s alive!”
Choreographers and dancers have the opportunity to experience the liberating possibilities of working with camera, editing and film. Film makers will have access to exploring the movement language and narrative possibilities of the body through the work of the choreographers and dancers.
The laboratory does not follow a traditional workshop set-up where there are teachers and students, it functions more like an experiment where the whole laboratory group supports each other. The aim is to engage in collective experimentation and making with the guidance of choreographer Kati Kallio and director Jukka Rajala-Granstubb.
Participants are required to submit a movement or filmatic idea on the theme HASTE.
WHO: Dance and movement professionals and film and videoart makers
WHEN: Thursday 27.6. at 16.00 – Sunday 30.6. at 15.00
WHERE: Artfactory MALAKTA, Malax, 25km from Vaasa
FEE: 100€
REGISTRATIONS: By the 3.6.: [email protected]
ACCOMMODATION: 30€, shared quarters arranged in Artfactory MALAKTA’s residency flat
FOOD: Everyone takes care of their own meals, there are two kitchen facilities to use
If you want to participate please make an informal application which contains a brief presentation of yourself and your motivation of why you wish to participate. Remember to include your idea on the theme “Haste”. Send no later than 3.6.
Additional information: Regional dance centre of Ostrobothnia, Annika Sillander +358-451364372 or [email protected].
Art Factory MALAKTA is a cultural centre set in an old dairy near Vaasa in Western Finland. www.malakta.fi