Dancing the Archive Q&A: Siobhan Davies & Karen Pearlman | SFDFF

Siobhan Davies (Director, "Transparent") and Karen Pearlman (Director, "Impossible Image") in conversation with Marisa Hayes (Video Danse Bourgogne director, researcher and journalist at Dance Magazine and Repères, cahier de danse, among others) about their process incorporating archival material into their film practice.
What is an archive? Dancing the Archive explores the possibilities from the merging of multi-media documentation to the reframing of personal practice
Throughout history, dance has been archived with the use of the most advanced technologies available, be it through notation or recording technology. These records contain value beyond the utilitarian.
The International Journal of Screendance recently noted, “The hybrid nature of screendance may allow for new explorations in relation to archival footage to emerge” and the films in this program show the possibilities of these explorations, from the merging of multi-media documentation to the reframing of personal practice.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 Why work with archival images
4:38 Role of editing
9:50 Life is a long dance practice
13:05 Bringing wildness back, feminism
17:07 Creative process, feeling of images
21:36 Gestures into choreography
24:07 Use of sound
29:30 Future works