Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen
Enter the screening room to view a selection of works for an extended period of time by using your livestream festival pass. No pass? Just click below to book your stream on demand festival pass
While the hot Scottish summer and the clear blue skies have reportedly reached our Screen.dance home ‘up North’ at Citymoves Dance Agency in Aberdeen, we are here to remind you that the first of three deadlines, i.e. the early deadline of 20 July 2021 for our current open call as part of Aberdeen’s 17th annual …
While we are looking forward to Screen.dance Festival in March 2022, we are delighted to announce that Screen.dance has been invited to curate three programmes as part of two festivals at home and away this autumn. Firstly, away at the 19th annual Festival Quartiers Danses, Montreal 8-19 September 2021 in line with our ongoing partnership …
Screen.dance 2021 Jury members Anna Clifford, Hayley Durward, Simon Fildes and lliyana Nedkova are pleased to announce all Screen.dance 2021 awards – four festival awards and four special mentions in our two main competitive categories – UK and International. This year our International category uniquely recognises not one but three additional contenders that follow suit …
The full programme of the online streaming edition of Screen.dance festival 19-20th June 2020 is now ready! Select the screening programmes from the Festival 2020 drop down menu. The Special Screening Room will open on Friday morning. Full programme is available by selecting from the Festival 2020 drop down menu.
All events are free and no pre-registration is required except the Zoom sessions hosted by The Workroom and maPs.
To register to take part in discussions and Q&A sessions on Friday at 4pm BST email hello@theworkroom.org.uk and Saturday at 3.30pm BST email info@screen.dance
Full at a glance programme is available here to download.
Screen.Dance was established in 2016 by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova and Peter Royston as Perth Screen Dance – a screening and commisioning programme connected to Perth Dance Festival, Scotland.
With the renovation of Perth Theatre, in 2018 the festival was able to grow and become an event that encompassed artist talks, pop-up exhibitions and installations. The festival’s relationship to Threshold artspace moving image collection at Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall has been a key component of the event in the past. Screen dance was one of the major parts of the collection curated, commissioned and acquired by Iliyana Nedkova at Threshold artspace between 2005-2020. It is unique in the UK and rare in contemporary art museums and galleries internationally.
The festival is now moving to new venues aiming to continue supporting artist development in Scotland and internationally.
Screen dance is an expanding hybrid genre of artist’s moving image and the festival defines the form as being created by combining the choreographic intention and compositional form of dance, with the language of cinema.
Artists submit to the festival here Filmfreeway
The festival looks for short works that conform to the definition above and these go forward to be judged in competition. The festival accepts short film submissions of no longer than 15 minutes made in the last 5 years. The works should conform to the genre of screen dance also known as videodance or dance film.
The festival does not accept documentation of live performance or dance documentary. Music videos maybe considered if the balance between dance and music is even.
Screen.dance 2021 is supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI, also by Creative Scotland, Goat Media, Citymoves Dance Agency, Aberdeen, Festival Quartiers Danses, Montreal and artists worldwide.
