Spotlight On… Creating Dance for Screen
What To Expect?
In Creating Dance for Screen, Litza will talk about what it's like to create movement for Hollywood films, television shows and music videos. Currently based in Los Angeles, Litza will share her knowledge of the dance film industry in both the UK and USA. Sima will share a brief history of her practice in screen dance and how it has evolved into what it is today. She will be talking about the varied techniques of storytelling and approaches to the art form.
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Sima Gonsai
Dance film producer and director
@simagonsaifilmsSima is an award-winning director, filmmaker, programmer and educator in screen dance. Originally trained in visual communication, her work specializes in innovative uses of digital storytelling. Her depth of experience has produced a body of films profiling ballet, contemporary and South Asian Dance, with a focus on creating artwork that promotes diversity and accessibility. As a programmer, she works with BAFTA accredited Flatpack Film Festival and as an educator she is the founder of Screen Dance Co-lab, an initiative for emerging artists collaborating in dance, film and music.
Litza Bixler
Choreographer, filmmaker, movement director, artist and writer
@litzabixlerA creative polymath, Litza Bixler is a choreographer, filmmaker, movement director, artist and writer who has produced work on stage, screen, mountains and galleries. In addition to creating movement and action for some of the most iconic scenes in film, she has also directed short dance films, and produced live-art, dance and physical theater pieces with her company Litza Bixler Performance.
In 1997, she began creating movement for commercial film and television. Most notably, working on the cult hit film 'Shaun of the Dead'. The scene she choreographed for SOD is considered one of the stand out scenes in the film and is often listed on numerous 'best of' lists. She continued her long term collaboration with director Edgar Wright on the films 'Scott Pilgrim vs the World' and 'The World's End'.
Litza is also a writer and a painter. In addition to writing text for many of her pieces, she has also written a fantasy western short film, a musical screenplay, a children's animated film, an illustrated children's book and two television pilots.
Litza is a dual national and often explores liminal spaces, thresholds and metaphorical journeys in her work. She creates absurd, darkly comic worlds populated by fairies, fallen angels, cowgirls, lonely aliens, talking birds, witches and water sucking vampires. Her work is embodied and visceral and her pieces are located within visually evocative settings; from desolate landscapes and crumbling rooms, to musical alternate realities, sinking ships and flying cities. In these worlds, her characters transform and move; they travel through wormholes, they fly and they fall, they drown in oceans and they disintegrate into dust.
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