A focus on recent Russian Screendance with the works of Dina Veryutina and Veronika Akopova.
Discussion moderated by Blas Payri, with the presence of dancer Arina Nagimova.
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Rand() Veronika Akopova, Florian Goralsky, Russia
10:26 Discussion with Veronika Akopova
15:47 ctrlC/ctrlV – Dina Veryutina /Alexander Lubashin
25:33 Night on earth – Dina Veryutina/Alexander Lubashin
36:02 Haara – Dina Veryutina/Arina Nagomova
47:49 Three songs about color – Dina Veryutina/Arina Nagimova
52:21 Discussion about Russian Screendance with Dina Veryutina, Veronika Akopova and Arina Nagimova.
Dina Veryutina
Russia
Veruytina Dina, 33 years old, Russia. A graduate of St. Petersburg University Cinema and TV. Videographer, director of documentary films, art projects. Since 2007 has been working in the genre of video dance with Alexander Lubashin. The first works were made within the framework of the elective program of the Master’s program “Art Practices of Contemporary Dance Forms” of the Russian Ballet Academy.
In 2017, took part in the laboratory Moving Movie, which was held in the “New Space” Tetra Nations, Moscow. in the framework of this project, the work “Trust”
In 2017 – 2019 I participated as a teacher in the project DK Culture (International Summer School of Contemporary Dance). During this project she made two films: “CtrlC / CtrlV», «Night on the Earth». These films became participants of the following festivals: Loikka Dance film festival – Finland, Bucharest International Dance Film Festival – Romania, Seyr – Iran. Film «Haara» took part in the festival Boodyskope – Russia. Currently I am curator of the project “City in motion” passing in the city of Kirov, Russia. The project is dedicated to film dance.Curator of the educational program for people with special needs.
ctrlC/ctrlV
06’58’’
Dina Veryutina /Alexander Lubashin
Sometimes we loose our identity and erase the limits of our personality. To cut this sequence of ctrlCs/ctrlVs we need to stop.
Haara (Butoh dance-film)
05’58’’
Dina Veryutina/Arina Nagomova
Abandoning the greenery of forest, the fallen leaves and iciness of snow Haara came across a touching hand. Like someone in the curves and knots and smoothness of the bark comes across himself, or stranger, or Haara.
Night on earth
07’59’’
Dina Veruytina/Alexander Lubashin
Three songs about color
02’41’’
Dina Veryutina/Arina Nagimova
Color in time, color in space, color in dance. The nature of color in subjective associations.
Veronika Akopova, Florian Goralsky
Russia
Veronika Akopova is a dancer, choreographer and dance filmmaker raised in Russia and currently based in France. She graduated from Moscow State University and the Sorbonne and trained as a dance artist at ACTS École de Danse Contemporaine de Paris. She worked with Iván Pérez in Dance Theatre Heidelberg in Germany, as well as with a French choreographer Sylvain Groud and an Israeli company C.a.t.a.m.o.n dance group.
Veronika created her first works “Entrelacs” (2015), a solo, and “Catharsis” (2016), a dance film, presented and awarded at international festivals around the world.
Florian Goralsky is a French director, editor and cinematographer. He directed several short films, including “Unstable Seasons” (2019) and “Bathers” (2019), as well as documentaries and developed advertising and VR projects for Parisian agency Neostory, Arte,
European institutions, and most recently Dance Theatre Heidelberg.
In 2015 Veronika and Florian founded bok o bok company, exploring different art forms, with a focus on dance and film.
Rand()
07’58’’
Direction Veronika Akopova & Florian Goralsky Choreography Veronika Akopova Cinematography Florian Goralsky
Dancers Julia Baranyuk, Ekaterina Blinova, Maria Ermokhina, Lubov Filatova, Daria Glebova, Alexander Khityev, Karina Lyashenko, Elizaveta Nikitina, Ekaterina Povod, Valeriia Shcherbatykh, Vita Slizen, Evgeniia Taletskaya
Music Andrei Karasyov
Producer Veronika Chernysheva / Pro Dvigenie
What is a hazard? Is it nothing more than a sequence of causes and effects forming an infinitely complex algorithm? Rand(), which signifies a programming function that generates pseudo-random results, immerses the viewer in a game with unpredictable results.
Rand() is a result of a dance workshop
on algorithmic methods of choreographic composition, led by Veronika Akopova and Florian Goralsky in Moscow in partnership with Pro Dvigenie, Contemporary dance, Russia.
Between video-dance and video game, the film proposes the audience to challenge chance
by participating in a series of games with desembodied protagonists and random results. The original music was composed by an award- winning composer Andrei Karasyov, and was inspired by slot machines and casino roulette.
