Girl with a Movie Camera

Girl with a Movie Camera by Jennifer Nikolai and Andrew Denton is inspired by director Dziga Vertov’s seminal film Man with a Movie Camera. This dance/theatre and video work pays particular attention to Vertov’s application of cinematic montage in his experimental film work, and his theoretical investigations around “kino-pravda”.

Vertov’s images and words provide a platform for dancers to develop themes into performance and respond to projected images, thus creating a physical and mechanical dialectic on stage. Video images and performances contrast or compliment each other in an exchange of media and mediums.

Choreographer: Jennifer Nikolai / Director: Andrew Denton / Rehearsal Assistant: Natalie Dowd/ Dancers from AUT Dance Company: Xinia Alderson, Erin Bowerman, Jane Carter, Grace Crawford, Kezia Kramer and Aya Nakamura.

Jennifer Nikolai is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Dance at AUT University. She is a dancer, lecturer, choreographer and inter-disciplinary practitioner. Her current PhD research engages with the use of the video camera as a dramaturge in the process of making dance-theatre material.

Andrew Denton is a film and video artist. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Digital Design at AUT University. His teaching and research interests are in digital cinema, and performance and technology.

A visual feast of video images and live dance movement…

Julia Barry, Theatreview, 6 March 2011

… rich physical imagery and pulsating movement was proof that it is the quality rather than the length of a piece that is important …

…Andrew Denton's moving images are sublime….we are constantly gob-smacked by what he achieves. He quite literally takes our breath away and when the dancers interact choreographically with the imagery, gems of memory are there for the taking.

Lexie Matheson, Theatreview, 14 March 2011

Girl With A Movie Camera: Friday 7th October, 6pm and 10pm, Saturday 8th October, 1pm

Q

Studio

305 Queen Street

www.qtheatre.co.nz, booking line 09 3099771

Tempo Dance Festival runs from September 30th to 8th October 2011.

Tempo 2011 is supported through funding from the NZ 2011 Festival Lottery Fund.