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Dance/Video/Improvisation Workshop

This is advanced notice of the Dance/Video/Improvisation Workshop with
Kirstie Simson, Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes which will take
place at Findhorn, Scotland on 25 August 2007 to 1 September 2007.

The workshop will explore how camera and editing can capture the
essence of improvised dance practice and performance and the uses of
improvisation in making dance for the screen.

Based on their own on-going collaborative project, this is the first
workshop to be lead by Kirstie Simson, Katrina McPherson and
SimonFildes and it is open to dancers and video dance artists.

To register interest and for further information, please email
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Kirstie Simson has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary
dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure
creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a
force of nature" by the New York Times, she is an award-winning dancer
and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries
of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London. Simson's eternal
subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form
and structure to create movement out of the rhythm of life itself

Award-winning video dance maker Katrina McPherson originally trained as
a dancer before going on to have a career as a director of arts and
documentary programmes for television. Her video dance works, including
'Moment', 'Sense-8' and 'The Truth, have been screened at Festivals all
over the World. She is the author of 'Making Video Dance' (Routledge,
2006), the first ever workbook to follow the process of creating dance
for the screen from idea through to editing.

Simon Fildes was a musician before becoming a video and sound artist.
He edited all Katrina McPherson's video dance works and together they
are responsible for the ground-breaking net dance works
www.hyperchoreography.org and www.move-me.com. Both Simon and Katrina
are Lecturers in Media Arts and Dance at Dundee University and are the
directors of Goat Media Ltd. For more info www.left-luggage.co.uk.


Katrina McPherson
Lecturer, Media Arts and Imaging
Dundee University
Scotland/UK

Tel+ 44 (0) 1309 651 229
Mob: 07798 563 799
www.left-luggage.co.uk
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The Universal Hall
Findhorn
Forres IV36 3TZ

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