ABSTRACT
With the multi-layered processes of pre-production, filming and post-production completed, a new type of journey begins: that of the work out into the world, to be engaged with by audiences and individual viewers in various different contexts. Festivals have become a favoured forum for video dance artists to have their work shown in public. They come in all different shapes and sizes, and are happening in many different countries, usually the result of an individual or group of people who are passionate about bringing screen dance to their particular local community. Some cinemas programme short films in front of feature films and this can be a lovely way of having artist's work reach an audience that might not go to a specialist video dance festival. At the International Dance and Technology Conference in Tempe, Douglas Rosenberg presented his manifesto for screendance, in which he called for ideas and knowledge, rather than technology to be foregrounded in the work.
