Victoria Marks Residency at Reed College, February 23-25, 2012
Moving Seeing: Strategies for camera dancing and live performance: a workshop for choreography students
Thursday Feb. 23, 2012
4:10 5:30 PM In the Sports Center's Gym II
When composing movement, we often work from our own subjective experience, creating kinetic sequences that satisfy complex and diverse needs. In this workshop, we will design movement with the viewer in mind. Working in small groups, we will construct sequences of movement that ask the “eye” of the camera to move. We can think of these as “ribbons” of movement.
Time permitting; we will consider how we elicit particular expectations from viewers, and then work to either satisfy them, or to upend them.
Reservations required to cathylee@reed.edu.
Four Dance Films by Victoria Marks and Margaret Williams
Friday Feb. 24, 2012
7:00-9:00 PM In the Psychology Auditorium (Psych 105)
Choreographer Victoria Marks will present four dance films created in collaboration with British Film director Margaret Williams--“Outside In” (1993), “Mothers and Daughters” (1994), “Men” (1997) and “Veterans” (2008). Winners of awards including the first Prize Video Dance of Barcelona, the Toronto Award for Best Screen Choreography, the IMZ International award for best screen choreography, the Golden Antennae Award from Bulgaria, and the Grand Prix in the Video Danse Festival, France, among others, these films are rarely broadcast. Marks will speak about the films throughout the screening.
Sometimes, less is more: A workshop for students in dance, music, theater and visual art
Saturday Feb. 25, 2012
10:30 AM - Noon In the Sports Center's Gym II
Together, we will build and develop an ensemble score for performance “A Line, A Circle, A … “ will be its working title. We will use our collective ideas and skills to create an improvised dance big enough to include us all.
Reservations required to cathylee@reed.edu
About Victoria Marks
Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film, and for professional and non-professional movers. Marks’s recent work has considered citizenship, as well as the representation of disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance making within the sphere of political meaning. Marks is a Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Recent awards include first prize in the 2008 “Festival of Video Dance” Barcelona, for “Veterans”, a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, for the creation of new work and a 2010 CHIME award for mentoring in her field. Marks is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs. New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board, among others. In 1997, Marks was honored with the Alpert Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography, and numerous awards for her dance films co-created with Margaret Williams, including the Grand Prix in the Video Danse Festival (1996 and 1995), the Golden Antenae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen choreography and the Best of Show in the Dance Film Association’s Dance and the Camera Festival.
The Victoria Marks residency is supported in part by the Division of the Arts, the Reed Dance Department, and the Weitkamp Fund.