Frameform

While Maya Deren can be called the mother of modern day screendance practice, Amy Greenfield can be seen as its godmother. Throughout a career spanning over five decades, Greenfield has developed a practice and visual style scaffolded on ideas of agency and the dissolution of hierarchies within traditional film work.  She is also influential with her work in curation. In 1983, she and Elaine Sumne...

Nudity on screen is considered to be a taboo topic. The MPAA slaps a rating on a film if the picture features any nudity of some kind. But when it comes to visual art, the body as a form is almost considered “the norm.” Dance film featuring nudity on the other hand, plays a whole other meaning to the visual expression. In the three chosen dance films for this episode, we discuss the use of the nud...

We sat down with George Turnbull, Dance & FIlm artist and Scholar, in Vancouver, BC at Dancinema ’s Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival 2019, and talked about his film ID . George Turnbull is a screendance scholar and practitioner who is completing his Ph. D. in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. A recipient of the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the...

Gender identity, expression and dynamics  through the lens of dancefilms.  We’ve highlighted just a few, but there is much great work being done exploring this intrinsic part of our beings and the ways in which we perceive and interact with the world. Many traditional dance forms have examples of gender binaries, including costume, posture, movement, choreography, characters, and the roles they pl...

Last year, we sat down with our friend Steven Butler, Dance & FIlm artist, in Vancouver, BC at Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival, and talked about his dynamic career. Steven Butler is a multi-talented creative with an open mind, passion for storytelling and an aptitude for intersecting multiple art forms. He began his creative career as a dancer and choreographer with credits including Transforme...

Every once in a while, a new social app takes over and becomes massively popular, but something that makes TikTok unique from the others is the focus on dance.  Today we’ll talk about what dance on this app looks like, how the global community is connecting on this application, and what are the potential personal and national security risks of using what seems to be an innocent video sharing platf...

Music videos play a huge part in introducing dance to the screen. From MTV, commercials, and nowadays, YouTube premieres-- almost everyone has experienced a form of dance on screen through a widely known musical artist. As we discuss our three dance-centric music video picks, we come to realize that music videos are a commercialized version of experimental cinema. Behind the celebrity glamour and...

Art is not created in a vacuum. Screendance is practiced globally and while there is a strong worldwide network, each practitioner and the work they create is influenced by their unique contexts; from their dance training and background to the social and political environments the work is created in. In this episode, we examine different modes and values systems of screendance around the world. We...

Documentaries educate, celebrate, and honor the moments of history in the world at large. With plenty of recorded documents on the upbringing of ballet and modern dance, we have to question when and where did jazz dancing enter into the picture. Khadifa Wong’s recently completed documentary, Uprooted , has been making its festival rounds, being one of the very few films that thoroughly examine the...

We had the opportunity to chat with Eric Cheung last year in Vancouver BC at the Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival. His film E_GO, a low budget and high impact short featuring captivating movement is available to view now. Eric Cheung is a street dance artist who currently resides in Vancouver, BC and is a company dancer of Ouro Collective. Eric is passionate about advancing the boundaries of str...

It’s been quite a year with COVID-19 interfering with the world’s daily routines and freedom. With people quarantining inside their homes, a rise of creativity has spiked into the world of dance film. Entering into the era of what we are calling “ Pandemic Vision ”, we look at a few films that have sparked new ideas and inventive ways of producing work with social distancing in mind. We also talk...

Today on the show, we are having a talk about a somewhat uncomfortable topic in the film world-- money . We are looking at three different films with three very different budgets. From very expensive film sets to low production, low maintenance projects -- it all comes down to the budget. -- Links to films Scene from “Dola de Rola” (2002) Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali Budget: 2.5 crores = 28,2...

Welcome to Frameform ! A movie and movement podcast! Today we are kicking off the series by discussing dance film as a mode of filmmaking, why it is relevant, and comparing films from the past and present that exemplify the medium. But first we talk about what we are watching these days! -- Topic Films Colorwise Created, Choreographed & Performed by The Seaweed Sisters: Megan Lawson, Jillian Meyer...

From Rixey, this is Frameform. A podcast discussing movies, moving and everything in between. We are three dance film nerds who can’t wait to take you on a deep dive into the crazy, complex and exciting world at the intersection of dance and film. We will be delving into topics, trends and issues in dance, film and culture at large. We will also be sharing conversations with creators in the field,...