Screen.Dance

Welcome to Screen.dance, the website for Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen. You will find information about past and future events, and news about commissions,  screening events, and useful resources.

Submissions have now reopened for  Screen.Dance – Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen for an event in partnership with Dance Live in Aberdeen October 14 -18, 2020

The programme for the June 2020 festival is available to see along with some artist presentations. If you attended any screenings we would be very grateful for you to take part in this audience survey from Film Hub Scotland .

Please keep checking for news and opportunities.

The full schedule is available to download here.

schedule at a glanceDownload

We ran this event in collaboration with Summerhall in Edinburgh despite not being able to use their screening facilities. We hope audiences will donate to their funding appeal and support this fantastic independent arts facility. Thanks to all the supporters and funders.

supported by film hub scotland

News

Screen.Dance Festival 2020 v1

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.

schedule at a glanceDownload

About Screen.Dance

Screen.Dance was originally started in 2016 by Simon Fildes and Peter Royston as “Perth Screen Dance” a screening 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 and installations. The festival’s relationship to Threshold Artspace moving image collection at Horsecross has been a key component of the event in the past. Screendance is one of the major parts of the collection curated by Iliyana Nedkova. It is unique in the UK and rare in museum galleries internationally.

The festival is now moving to new venues  aiming to continue supporting artist development in Scotland and internationally.

Screendance 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 conforms 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 screendance 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 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, The Work Room Glasgow, Goat Media Ltd and artists worldwide.