The Historical Museum of Crete offers a space open to the public and to different art forms in a series of events and exhibitions that take place every summer. From August 1 to 31 the Museum embraces video art and digital technology and converts the Yiannis Pertselaki amphitheater in an exhibition environment for video art. A field of modern art that first appeared in the late 1960s and today continues to be a field of experimentation, which proved to be especially attractive to the public.
This August the Historical Museum of Crete has chosen to present a tribute to videodance (screen choreography, dance for camera or choreography screendance), a combination dance with the art of video, through the creations of leading contemporary representatives of the field from the United Kingdom, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland and Greece.
Admission to the screenings is included in the Historical Museum ticket.
Videodance screenings:
August 1-6: Billy Cowie
Programme
Tango de Soledad | 5m 30s,
Tango Brasileiro | 3 m,
Portraits No1 | 6m 30 s,
Reverse Steps (από το Art of Movement) | 3 m,
Tangos Cubanos | 25 m
Billy Cowie
Billy Cowie, is one of the UKs most established choreographers having made over twenty works for his company Divas Dance Theatre and numerous commissions for other companies including Transitions, High Spin and Extemporary Dance Theatre. His recent dance films include Tango de Soledad and Tango Brasileiro (made for Channel 4 TV). A book about his work entitled Anarchic Dance was published in 2006 by Routledge. His 3D dance pieces have been installed in 34 countries on six continents. Awards include the Jury Prize at FCDIDL 2013, Czech Crystal Golden Prague Awards, Delegates Prize at IMZ. He has directed numerous choreography and dance/film workshops in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Copenhagen, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Havana and Bucharest. His latest works are Tangos Cubanos (commissioned by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and premiered in Havana in Feb 2015) and Shakespeare Needs You (commissioned by festival Bo:m in Seoul and premiered in March 2016).
In his most recent works Cowie has been concerned with embedding dancers in specific visual environments that enhance and inform the choreography. In the case of Tangos Brasileiros the dancer is superimposed in vintage footage of Rio de Janeiro whereas in the Portraits series photographic images are superimposed on the dancer. In many of his work he uses the visual imagery of the German artist Silke Mansholt – in Tango de Soledad she created the chalk drawn room the dancer inhabits and in Tangos Cubanos and Art of Movement (Reverse Steps) she made the paintings and drawings that are projected onto the dancers themselves.
See next:
August 8-13: Silke Mansholt (DE),
August 15-25: Rajyashree Ramamurthi (IN) [curator]. With the participation of: Desmond Roberts (IN), Parimal Phadke (IN), Dhanya Pilo (IN), Surjit Nongmeikapam (IN), Preethi Athreya (IN),Yashaswini R (IN), Rakesh MPS (IN), Asim Waqif (IN), Mayuka Ueno Gayer (JP), Frederic Lombard (CH) and
August 26-31: Aliki Chiotaki (GR).