Camera In Flux
Aliki Chiotaki (GR)
01.08 – 02.08 | 10:00 – 13:00
For information and registrations email to: [email protected]
Lets face it! It is about change: the change that inhabits the body as it moves from one place to another.
Dance on camera deals with the idea of an expanded choreography within a limited spatial frame and in this workshop we will explore the change demanded by the body which controls the camera.
How it adjusts in relation to space and reacts when is confronted kinesthetically as it shifts directions and levels while moving.
Where does movement initiates? Which part of the space or body part? How does a composition arise? Which pathways to choose and which movements will accompany the process of travelling from one point of the space to another.
We will develop an approach in real – time editing and provoke spontaneous compositions to make our imaginations visible and design sequences through creative camera techniques.
What kind of visual-sense data do we receive from the environment?
How does this effect our sensory system? How we react body wise?
How do we see the motion of one or more bodies through a limited spatial field (i.e.) the camera)?
How do we see the stability of the space and how do we perceive ourselves as moving in a stable environment?
This experiential workshop is an open-ended exploration of the kinesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through, in and out of a given space and discovers new ways of navigating their body accordingly. It is open to anyone who wishes to test, to provoke and question the nature of this genre.
The participants must wear loose clothes and carry a hands-on camera or action camera or mobile phone with them.
Interdisciplinary artist Aliki Chiotaki’s mixed media background includes dance film, drawing, art direction, screen dance curating and performance. Her work blend these techniques to create strong visual narratives with a focus on exploring notions of memory, displacement and confusion while focusing on the elements related to the formation and trans-formation of the body in the search of a collective and personal identity.
She was born in Athens in 1975. She studied Graphic Art at the Vacalo Art and Design College in Athens and Dance with Visual Practice at the University of Brighton, UK, with a Postgraduate specialization in Laban analysis and Somatic Studies from the university of Surrey, UK. She is certified Laban Movement Analyst certified by Motus Humanus-USA and The Labanotation Institute, UK. Her work have been presented in Europe, Asia and America (e.g. International Video Dance Festival in Koeln, Krakow, Athens-Thessaloniki, Wuppertal, Burgundy, Nicosia, Dançaemfoco, Brasil, Muestra de Movimiento Audiovisual of Mexico, Triskelion Arts Dance Film Festival of New York, Stockholm, Bogota, Helsinki, Cagliari, London, Macao, Graz, Center for Mediterranean Architecture, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Museum of Visual Arts in Herakleion, Crete, Museum of Typography, Chania, Crete, Historical Museum of Crete, Archeological Museum of Chania etc). In 2016 her work entitled 60 pulses was nominated at the Rollout Dance film Festival, Macao S.A.R, China, for the jury Award and the Audience Award, whereas in 2017, she won the Special Mention award of the D’Olhar Festival Itinerante de Dança e Video, Brazil. As a screen dance curator, she took on the presentation of Video Dance works in a related tribute exhibition at the Historical Museum of Crete and the curation of the Video Dance section of the 5th International Film Festival of Chania. She holds the position of the curator of the Video Dance section at the international dance festival “Dance Days Chania” since 2018.
For information and registrations email to: [email protected]
1 – 2 August
10:00 – 13:00
Aliki Chiotaki | Camera In Flux
