Danca em Foco

Today has been a very exciting day....the first day of the Danca em Foco Festival here in Rio. An International festival of video dance and dance film. Today started off with a workshop on Video Projections with Celina Portella and then the afternoon continued with Dancing with the camera with Leticia Ramos. 
I love how you can travel half way round the world and find people who are interested in the exact same things as you are, completely different language and culture but the same questions of presence and relationship in dance. 
Video Projections raised quite a few questions about how you work with the camera and the projector itself, distorting ideas about time and space. She showed us some of her work, these two were particularly interesting, the layering of images, creating ideas of a reality that are then broken, leaving traces of ideas and passages..... all fun things to think about for tomorrow!
Have a look below...

Leticia Ramos' workshop was also very interesting, and looked at how to dance with the camera and not for the camera, using it as a dance partner or object that is part of a performance. We also had discussions about the notion of choreographer and editor in terms of video dance/ dance film..... lots of interesting things to think about again before I head back tomorrow....