PDP Presents 2010: Motion Pictures screening, Annual Shorts Program with Kate Watson-Wallace March 4, 2010

Now in its 9th year, Motion Pictures explores how film and video serve as a natural collaborative medium for dance, highlighting the power of image and motion in both. The festival features experimental and innovative shorts, documentaries, “moc”umentaries and animations.

The Annual Shorts Program features clever, poetic, and animated dance videos from around the world, selected from the 2010 Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. The program also offers a preview of Everywhere by local choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace. Everywhere is an online dance experience with two main components: a virtual dance contest which takes place on the internet via the video sharing website Vimeo; and a new dance work that will be created in collaboration with the online audience. Look out for Everywhere online soon. Visit http://www.katewawa.com for updates.

Motion Pictures is presented in partnership with “Dance with Camera,” an exhibition now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Film @ International House, and the Dance Film Association’s Touring Partners Program.

Part of Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, February 26 – March 20
[re]generation | contemporary dance | past meets future
The Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010 series takes a look back and a look ahead, pairing the next wave of contemporary dance artists with influential choreographers from the 1970s and 80s Philadelphia dance scene.

Official Website: http://www.philadanceprojects.org