Tempo Dance Festival 2011

Girl with a movie camera is inspired by director Dziga Vertov’s seminal film Man with a Movie Camera. This dance/theatre and video work pays particular attention to Vertov’s application of cinematic montage in his experimental film work, and his theoretical investigations around “kino-pravda”. Vertov’s images and words provide a platform for dancers to develop themes into performance and respond to projected images, thus creating a physical and mechanical dialectic on stage. Video images and performances contrast or compliment each other in an exchange of media and mediums. It is a conversation between ideas, images, and performance.

Choreographer: Jennifer Nikolai / Director: Andrew Denton / Rehearsal Assistant: Natalie Dowd/ Dancers from AUT Dance Company: Xinia Alderson, Erin Bowerman, Jane Carter, Grace Crawford, Kezia Kramer and Aya Nakamura

Jennifer Nikolai is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Dance at AUT University. She is a dancer, lecturer, choreographer and inter-disciplinary practitioner. Her current PhD research engages with the use of the video camera as a dramaturg in the process of making dance-theatre material. Andrew Denton is a film and video artist. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Digital Design at AUT University. His teaching and research interests are in digital cinema, and performance and technology.

A visual feast of video images and live dance movement… Julia Barry, Theatreview, 6 March 2011

Showing In: Auckland Dates: Friday 07 Oct - 6pm & 10pm
Saturday 08 Oct - 1pm Venue: Q Theatre - Loft Tickets: $20 / concessions available Show Duration: 50 min