REVIVE: featuring SCREENDANCE
with Talal Al-Muhanna

A new intensive workshop series with dance masters
presented by the San Francisco Dance Center

$425 if registered on or before December 1, 2008
$475 if registered after December 1, 2008

WEEK ONE: CLASSES
Jan. 12-16, 2009
Monday - Friday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
• Dance Technique with Yannis Adoniou
• Indtroduction to Screendance
• Development of project proposals
• Team-building
• Filming led by Talal Al-Muhanna

WEEK TWO: INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
Jan. 19-24, 2009
Monday - Saturday (post production )
• Editing
• Dramaturgy
• Presentations
• Follow-up w/Q&A

Description:
Over the course of 2 weeks participants are guided in conceiving, choreographing, shooting, editing and presenting an up to 5 minute dance-based media work in collaboration with other workshop participants. The workshop - led by dance filmmaker Talal Al-Muhanna in cooperation with choreographer Yannis Adoniou - includes instruction in dance and dance-for-camera practice; screenings of dance-based films; and individual coaching on project development. Participants may develop projects in a wide-range of styles, genres and techniques: from experimental to documentary to installation or stage-based projections. Films may be shot in studio or on location.

Most of the second week, workshop participants will be working independently with their editors at SFAI, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco 94133 (a ten minute walk from SFDC). Thus, if students live in the bay area they can plan their editing time around work schedules.

No prior camera or editing experience is required. Dance artists will be paired with videographers/editors from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Camera and editing equipment will be provided by the generous support and collaboration of San Francisco Art Institute. However, Students are encouraged to purchase an external hard-drive to store their project on.

All participants will gather for a final showing on Friday, Jan 23 at 5:30 pm at SFDC.

Curated by Yannis Adoniou and presented by the
San Francisco Dance Center, home of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet



Talal Al-Muhanna is a dance filmmaker, curator and dramaturge with an extensive background in dance as a performer with companies such as Feld Ballets/NY, Cleveland San Jose Ballet, mouvoir/Cologne and Ballet Frankfurt in Germany. As a filmmaker his work has been shown in numerous festivals internationally and on the BBC Big Screen in Leeds, England. He holds a BA and MA in Film & Moving Image Production from Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K. www.talmuhanna.com

ABOUT SFDC/ LINES Ballet

San Francisco Dance Center is the home of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, LINES Pre-Professional Program and a BFA program offered in partnership with Dominican University. SFDC and all of LINES educational programs seek to cultivate strong and exceptionally trained artists who value artistic risk-taking and independent thinking. From our year around programming, to summer study and special workshops we seek to provide dancers the opportunity to experience the depth of expression that is possible through dance through training with former LINES dancers, thriving San Francisco based choreographers, and dance artists from around the world. In its inaugural year, REVIVE is a new annual curated series that we created to bring together the populations of all of our programs highlighting the growth of international connections within our organization. For more information, visit www.sfdancecenter.org.

To register please email alissa_b@sfdancecenter.org. In your email, please include a short bio (max one page), a short paragraph about what you hope to gain/learn/achieve in this workshop and a brief description of a project you may like to develop during the workshop. Please indicate whether you are interested in being a choreographer or dancer or if you are flexible to play both roles. On your materials, please also include your contact information (full address/phone number/email).

   Download a printer-friendly PDF flyer and registration form for REVIVE here.