Practical Dramaturgies

Screendance is the topic of the 3^rd edition Practical Dramaturgies project, which focuses on dramaturgical connections between dance and film. The programme is designed to have dancers, choreographers, film makers and artists, get more experienced in the writing of scripts, the development of structures and how to apply this in a creative process.It features workshops physical preparation and movement research by choreographer Emio Greco and Barbara Meneses, an introduction to script writing through advice, exercises, and personal feedback by film director Maite Bermúdez Pascual, as well as creative sessions on film making coached by film director David Hinton. This year the creative sessions lead to the making of a short films of the participant's own work. Emio Greco  | PC's language and artistic vision serves as a tool to challenge and confront the participant's own work.
 
The Academy exchange programme Practical Dramaturgies is collaboration project of ICK and the OperaEstate Festival/ CSC Dance House in Bassano del Grappa (IT), that started in 2009.

Dramaturgical connections between dance and film

Continuing the first edition of Practical Dramaturgies at the Opera Estate Festival in Bassano in July 2009, in 2010 a special focus has been placed on only one relation, that of dance and cinema. The approach was to take the relations of narrativity within these two different art forms that are united through the use of movement and images. How can their inner structures relate and inform each other? How does the creative process of writing for film inform a dance creative process? What are the similarities and differences? What is it that we call dance dramaturgy? Can this confrontation help us to define what it is in the context of a creative environment?

To examine these questions the performance and creative process of Double Points: HELL, created in 2005 by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, served as theme and point of departure to frame the full program of this edition. How can we make out of Double Points: HELL the performance Double Points: HELL the film? has been the practical question driving participants through physical preparation and lectures into two different creative processes. The participants were divided into two groups: one targeting the creation of a film and the other of a dance performance. Each group was coached by a different person, either film director David Hinton or by choreographer/theatre maker Andrea Bozic.

An impression of the 2010 edition of the collaboration between ICK and the Opera Estate festival is given by the documentary by Maite Bermudez (see video).