My 2015 screendance DSW gets its first (international) screening at the Dance Film Festival UK on Saturday August 8.
It will be screened all day as part of the Private Cinema Installation at O2 Think Big Hub, Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NT.
This screendance was created as an artefact of my evolving performance practice with Melinda Smith which had its first full-length presentation, Unbecoming, at last year’s Melbourne Fringe (and will have a further development in a couple of months…more details to follow…)
The title DSW is an acronym we coined for a Skype emoticon we exchanged in our early online conversations (before moving into our regular improvisation practice). It was a stick figure dancing that Mel re-visualized in her painting of DSW, Dancing Stick Woman (see featured image for this post).
It could also stand for:
dance spasm warrior
don’t stop working
dynamic strong women
different same wonderful
doing something wrong
dizzy sickening waning
determined simple wants
driving sensation washing
drifting subtle whimsy
dangerous stunt wheelchair
distant sleeping world
difficult singing whispers
definitely standing wobbly
deft succinct writing
does some wishing
dancing starry window
deliberate slippery weasel
Dianne starts waiting