direction: ana baer, heike salzer; dancers: michelle nance, heike salzer; costume design: robert burton; original music: richard hall; camera: ana baer; drone operators: ian bailey, TJ simon; editing: ana baer; still photography jessica beer; production: WECreate Productions.
Inspired by the lushness of the North Yorkshire Moors, WECreate Productions embarks on a new exploration of space. “Wild-er-ness” is a blend of site-specific and site-adaptive material intimately woven into a multidisciplinary performance in the intersection of dance, video, music, and fashion design. With dancers acting as a canvas for multi-layered images and screens magnifying dancers in space, this self-referential work invites the audience to wander through its unique interpretation of space. WECreate Productions is committed to exploring the possibilities of digital technology in service of collaborative Art creation. Consistent with their artistic research schema in dance and video, directors Ana Baer and Heike Salzer incite new challenges for creating “Wild-er-ness”, by integrating the notion of fashion design as another starting point. Similarly, WECreate Productions has embraced drone filming techniques since the conception of this piece.
Live Performance with live music by Richard Hall: Irey Theatre, Boulder, CO. Light design Iain Court 09/24/17. Additional performance at the Harrison Theatre TXST. Light design Scott Vandenberg.
ACCOLADES
Jeju Drone Film Festival, Innovation Award, Jeju, South Korea; 2020
Screen.Dance Festival, Award winner, Perth, Scotland; 2020
SCREENINGS
11/15/2024 Gjon Mili International Videoart Festival, Korce, Albania
03/03-12/2023 Latest Visions: TV – Brighton, Northern Visions – Belfast, Sheffield Live! – Sheffield and KMTV – Kent
05/24-28/2022 D’olhar Itinerante, Goiânia, Brazil
12/ 25/2021 Launch of Center for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange at The University of Roehampton, London, UK
10/31/2021 COCO Dance Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad
09/26/2021 Sao Carlos Video Dance Festival, Brazil
07/30/2021 XXIV Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival, SLP, MX
05/20-30/2021 Muestra de Videoarte Faenza 3, Bogotá, Colombia
04/22-25/2021 Urban Visions_Beyond the Ideal City Festival, Bologna, Italy
09/10-13/2020 Festival Internacional de Videodanza Mexico City, (online event)
09/01-04/2020 Muestra Virtual de Trabajos UMSNH, Morelia, MX
04/2020 Festival Internacional de Videodanza CDMX online platform
12/12-29/2019 DEUS A TERRA at CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium Lavagna, IT
11/18-23/2019 Mostra Internacional de dança imagens em movimento, São Paulo, Brazil
11/2-3/2019 Jeju Drone Festival, Jeju Aerospace Museum, South Korea
10/25-26/2019 Theorist Fest, Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX
10/21-27/2019 Corpo e Câmera: Composição Coreográfica, SESC Campinas, Brazil
10/16/2019 International meeting on video dance, Centro del Carmen, Valencia, SP
10/14-21/2019 ZINETIKA FESTIVAL, San Sebastian, Bilbao and Pamplona, Spain
10/5-13/2019 Mozi Motion Festival, Hilversum, Netherlands
09/24-26/2019 Festival VideoMovimiento – CineDanza, Bogota, Colombia
09/20-29/2019 Festival Internacional de Video Danza, CDMX, Guadalajara and Oaxaca.
07/22/2019 Sussex Dance Network, The Depot Cinema, London, UK
07/15-28/2019 Dance Days Chania Festival, Chania, Crete, Greece
06/01/2019 Cefalu Film Festival, Palermo, Italy
05/06/2019 Screen.Dance Scotland’s Festival, Perth Theatre, Scotland, UK
03/03/2019 Cine-Corps, Theatre Batuibak de Bretagne, Rennes, Frace
02/27/2019 Seyr Festival of Screen-Movement + Media Arts, Teheran, Iran
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