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ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival 2008 is our fifth biennial festival since 2000. The ReelDance Festival celebrates the point where dance and film meet, showcasing the best of recent work from around the world and across the country. In 2008, ReelDance Inc. moves into a new phase of activities encompassing artist development, education and distribution, and this is reflected in the diverse and multi- faceted slate of programs contained in this year’s touring festival.

The fifth biennial ReelDance Festival focuses on dance and movement in everyday life, with dancefilms featuring ballroom and mambo, hip hop and burlesque. By representing dance in all its forms, we aim to highlight how often it touches and enhances our everyday lives. At the same time, the festival continues to represent the best of dance as a performing art in the most recent and cutting edge dancefilms.

This year the festival also has an expanded program that goes well beyond film screenings, tailored to fit each of our 11 national and New Zealand touring partners. There are seven screening sessions on offer, including the return of both Kidreels and the popular music video program (this year in collaboration with MuVi at Oberhausen Film Festival), and the centrepiece of our program – the ReelDance Awards for new Australian and New Zealand shorts and documentaries, including the Bloch Award for Best Dancefilm, which will be presented in Sydney on May 18.

Our international guests this year, UK artists Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, bring their touring installation the move-me.com booth, an adaptation of the photo booth environment where you can create your own short dancefilms and upload them to move-me.com booth’s award- winning website. There is also a swing club at several tour stops with a live band, projected archival swing dance footage and dancing instruction. And in Melbourne, an associated live performance, Get a Grip, will be linked to classic hip hop and parkour feature films screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

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NIGhT PRACTICE UK/SwEDEN (2006: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Susanna wallin

Coventry’s Kombat Breakers practice moves on a floodlit football field.

ORU DIVASUM AUSTRAlIA (2007: 5MIN)

DIRECTOR lena John ChOREOGRAPhERS lena John and Paul Blackman PERFORMERS Paul Blackman and the people of Chennai

hip hop erupts in the streets of Chennai, India.

SKAl VI DANSE? / ShAll wE DANCE? NORwAy (2006: 9MIN)

DIRECTOR Martin lund PERFORMERS Tor Dybdahl, Jørn Morstad, Naiken Ostermann, Odile Blehr, Mathias Calmeyer, Jon Erling wevling.

The quiet guy gets the girl, despite a distracted storyteller.

DUBUS RUSSIA (2005: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Alexei Dmitriev

A musical montage celebrating swing styling.

DANSENDE JONGEN / DANCING BOy NEThERlANDS (2001: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Marjan laaper

A boy spins across a field, the screen and out of frame.

SAKTE VAlS / wAlTZ NORwAy (2007: 10MIN)

DIRECTOR Zoe Christiansen

A tender requiem for social ballroom dancing.

BUTTERFly MAN AUSTRAlIA (2004: 6MIN)

DIRECTOR Samantha Rebillet PERFORMER Don herbison-Evans

The collector emerges from the cocoon in brilliant colours.

BRENIN / KING UK (2004: 14MINS)

DIRECTOR Margaret Constantas ChOREOGRAPhER Simon whitehead PERFORMERS Cai Tomos, Roger Trefere, Glan Rees

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I’D RAThER DANCE wITh yOU KINGS OF CONVENIENCE NORwAy (2004: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Geir homes

ON ThE RADIO ThE CONCRETES UK (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Daniel levi

TIME BREAKS DOwN BEND SINISTER CANADA (2006: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Michael w. lewis

BlUE NOTE DITC GERMANy (2007: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR The legend Brothers and Pilskills

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I hAVE SEEN yOU DANCING BETTER ThAN ThIS lUIGI ARChETTI AND BO wIGET GERMANy (2006: 4MIN)

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BEIDE ARME NACh OBEN GyM-NASTIx GERMANy (2001: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Marc lutz

lINK-UP FEAT. K-ROSS PhONEhEADS GERMANy (2002: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Markus Bader

BETTy FORD AlTER EGO GERMANy (2002: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Oliver husain

hOlD MUSIC ARChITECTURE IN hElSINKI AUSTRAlIA (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Kim Gehrig

KEEP wAlKING MESS hAll AUSTRAlIA (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Justin Kurzel

PUlSE MESS hAll AUSTRAlIA (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Justin Kurzel

FOREVER yOUNG yOUTh GROUP AUSTRAlIA (2006: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Andy Cassell

CATChING AND KIllING yOUTh GROUP AUSTRAlIA (2006: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Squareyed Films

IT’S TRUE NEw BUFFAlO AUSTRAlIA (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Paul McNeil

llOyD I’M READy TO BE hEARTBROKEN CAMERA OBSCURA SCOTlAND (2006: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Domingo González

My MOON My MAN FEIST CANADA (2007: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Patrick Daughters

1234 FEIST CANADA (2007: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Patrick Daughters

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT Time Breaks Down, Beide Arme Nach Oben, 1234, It’s True PREVIOUS PAGE lloyd I’m Ready To Be heartbroken

yOU MADE ME lOVE yOU UK (2006: 4MIN)

DIRECTOR Miranda Pennell

young adults chase the camera’s gaze.

OSMOTIC GERMANy/SOUTh KOREA (2006: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Jan Verbeek

A parking attendant caught in the headlights.

GUN CANADA (2006: 6 MIN)

DIRECTOR Mark Adam ChOREOGRAPhER Bill Coleman PERFORMERS luc Tremblay, Pierre Duhaime, yuan Cote

The familiar gestures of the gunman re-staged from the big screen to dance screen.

hÜllE FÜllE SwITZERlAND (2007: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Nicole Seiler PERFORMER Celina Chaulvin

washing on a line reveals the bodies beneath.

PASSAGEM BRAZIl (2007: 6MIN)

DIRECTOR Celina Portella and Elisa Pessoa ChOREOGRAPhER Celina Portella PERFORMERS Celina Portella and Jamil Cardoso

A single shot moves through rooms finding all kinds of dance.

INEARThIA SwITZERlAND (2006: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR/ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER Compagnie Colateral Maren Sandmann

how to turn the world.

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT Alt I Alt, hülle Fülle, Passagem

Global Shorts: The Art of MovingAt the cutting edge between human movement and moving image, editing techniques, projection, choreographed cameras and unlikely subjects combine to create poetic and challenging cinema.

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hET GROTE GEBEUREN / ThE GAThERING ThE NEThERlANDS (2006: 7MIN)

DIRECTOR The good guys

A choreography of birds in flight.

MARRIAGE USA (2005: 1MIN)

DIRECTOR/ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER Amy Caron

A cornered wife escapes.

QUE ME IlAMEN hEROINA SPAIN (2005: 10MIN)

DIRECTOR Stephen lynch ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER Sonia Gonzalez

A failed ballerina wrestles with her demons.

DEVANT-AVANT SwITZERlAND (2007: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Nicole Seiler PERFORMERS Florent Ottello and Kylie walters

Ghostly figures are projected on steam.

NARROwEyES ISRAEl (2007: 7MIN)

DIRECTORS/ChOREOGRAPhERS Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Asaph Polonsky PERFORMERS Moran Abergil, Barkan Regev Chumash, Stav yeini, Tamar Gal, Eitan Efrat, yoav Barak

A single take follows young people as they scatter and cluster.

TRACE UK (2005: 1MIN)

DIRECTOR/PERFORMER Chirstinn whyte

Delicate tracking of a dancer’s movement across screen.

El ESCAPE ARGENTINA (2005: 7MIN)

DIRECTOR Marilén Iglesias-Breuker ChOREOGRAPhER luciana Acuña, luis Biasotto, Agustina Sario PERFORMERS luciana Acuña, luis Biasotto, Gabriel Almendros, Edgardo Castro, Gabriela Prado, Fernando Tur

A bizarre scenario with female robots in a mechanics’ garage.

TINGEl TANGEl UK (2006: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Kathryn Ferguson PERFORMERS Paloma Faith and Beatrice Brown

A nod to early experimental cinema based on a wooden dancing machine from a weimar Berlin Cabaret show.

AlT I AlT / All IN All NORwAy (2003: 5MIN)

DIRECTOR Torbjørn Skårild PERFORMER Knut Reinertsen

A high-board diver never hits the water.

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT Que Me Ilamen heroina, Devant-Avant, Tingel Tangel, Alt I Alt

MORNING hERD NEw ZEAlAND (2006: 7MIN)

DIRECTOR Rick harvie ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER Ross McCormack

A simple, fast movement response inspired by working on a beef farm during a calving and weaning season; a place for the beginning and the end.

SOMA SONGS NEw ZEAlAND (2006: 23MIN)

DIRECTOR Daniel Belton ChOREOGRAPhERS/PERFORMERS Tom ward, Josef Belton, Daniel Belton

The skeletons of stone structures have sat with us for millenia. As the choreography develops, construction of an arcane architecture develops. Is this new space providing a shelter or a wall? A means to navigate and travel, or a massive instrument to play sound?

wIll TIME TEll? AUSTRAlIA (2006: 13MIN)

DIRECTOR Sue healey ChOREOGRAPhER Sue healey PERFORMERS Shona Erskine with Ryuichi Fujimura, Norikazu Maeda, yuka Kobayashi, Makiko Izu, Mina Kawai

The traveller seeks time-out in Tokyo – will time tell her what she needs to know?

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT will Time Tell?, Soma Songs, Morning herd

The ReelDance AwardsThe Finalists in the ReelDance Awards for new Australian and New Zealand dancefilm – the best recent shorts by local dance and filmmakers.

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RESET NEw ZEAlAND (2006: 12MIN)

DIRECTOR Daniel Belton ChOREOGRAPhERS/PERFORMERS Richard huber, Caroline Claver, Donnine harrison, Daniel Belton

A couple face each other in a miniature tournament of wills and emotions.

POD AUSTRAlIA (2006: 12MIN)

DIRECTOR Samuel James and Narelle Benjamin ChOREOGRAPhER Narelle Benjamin PERFORMERS members of Sydney Dance Company

Forms of nature become a graphic template for choreography in a fantastic and surrealist realm where dancers work in tune with the magnified mechanics of nature.

ShADOw PlAy AUSTRAlIA (2007: 13MIN)

DIRECTOR Madeleine hetherton ChOREOGRAPhER Rowan Marchingo PERFORMERS Kirk Page and Alexandra harrison

A difficult family relationship in which the emotional subtext is revealed through dance.

FRAGMENTATION AUSTRAlIA (2007: 6MIN)

DIRECTOR Suzon Fuks ChOREOGRAPhER James Cunningham, Rob Tannion and Suzon Fuks PERFORMERS James Cunningham and Rob Tannion

Based on the idea that even though technology links people, it can also fragment their lives.

QUIETly COllAPSED AUSTRAlIA (2007: 5MIN)

DIRECTOR Samuel James and Rosie Dennis ChOREOGRAPhER Rosie Dennis PERFORMERS Rosie Dennis, Paula Callen, Sheila Ghelani and Rowan Marchingo

An electrifying exploration of claustrophobia – trapped in a world of unrelenting deadlines and white noise.

DIS-ORIENTAl AUSTRAlIA (2007: 6MIN)

DIRECTOR Sean O’Brien ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER yumi Umiumare

A wildly absurd ritual exploring the notion of ‘oriental’ in the context of moving and living in ‘foreign’ spaces.

ThE ShAPE OF wATER AUSTRAlIA (2007: 14MIN)

DIRECTOR Cordelia Beresford ChOREOGRAPhER Narelle Benjamin PERFORMERS Alexia heckman, wakako Asamo, Andrea Briody, Emmee Dillon, Reed laplau, Katie Ripley

A sensory journey revolving around the mind and its inner workings flowing back and forth like the sea.

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT Fragmentation, Shadow Play, Dis-Oriental, The Shape Of water

DANCE lIKE yOUR OlD MAN AUSTRAlIA (2006: 10MIN)

REElDANCE AwARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARy 2008 DIRECTORS Gideon Obarzanek and Edwina Throsby PERFORMERS Meaghan Mchenry, Sara Black, Alexandra Dillon, Bec Reid, Penelope Bartlau, Ros warby

Six women imitate their dads’ dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters.

JOSEPhINE BAKER: BlACK DIVA IN A whITE MAN’S wORlD GERMANy (2006: 45MIN)

DIRECTOR Annette von waggenheim

A film following the career of Josephine Baker, the first female African-American star of the European stage, from music hall star to resistance fighter and racial discrimination activist. Includes excerpts from screen performances in Siren of the Tropics, Zou Zou and Princess Tam Tam.

FROM MAMBO TO hIP hOP: A SOUTh BRONx TAlE USA (2006: 55MIN)

DIRECTOR henry Chalfant

From the co-writer of Style wars and international expert of hip hop culture, henry Chalfant, comes a panoramic view of the music and dance that blossomed in the latino community of the South Bronx from the late 1940s. The film traces the cultural life of the area from the moment mambo burst onto the New york cultural scene to the birth of hip hop in the 1970s, with brilliant archival footage of the pioneering clubs, dancers and musicians.

Features Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Charlie Chase and ‘Kid Freeze’ Moreno.

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT Dance like your Old Man, Josephine Baker, From Mambo to hip hop

Dance DocumentariesTwo documentaries celebrating where artistry survives despite the odds. Preceded by the winner of the ReelDance Award for Best Documentary 2008.

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ONE FlAT ThING, REPRODUCED BElGIUM/GERMANy (2006: 26MIN)

DIRECTOR Thierry de Mey ChOREOGRAPhER william Forsythe PERFORMERS The Forsythe Dance Company

One Flat Thing, Reproduced is rightly considered as one of william Forsythe’s major works in which the virtuosity of the performers rivals the ingenious complexity of the choreography. This film by award-winning filmmaker Thierry de Mey adopts a subjective approach, not exhaustive.

PINA BAUSCh GERMANy (2006: 45MIN)

DIRECTOR Anne linsel ChOREOGRAPhER Pina Bausch PERFORMERS Tanztheater wuppertal

An overview of the first lady of dance theatre with footage from most of her major works. The film reflects on the early years, beginning when Bausch took up the post as ballet director in wuppertal in 1972.

She has gone on to develop Tanztheater wuppertal with her dancers (including Australians Meryl Tankard and Michael whaites), a new theatre form consisting of dance, music and spoken word.

lES BAllETS DE CI DE lA BElGIUM (2006: 55MIN)

DIRECTOR Alain Platel ChOREOGRAPhERS/PERFORMERS Various

les Ballets C de la B, one of the most recognised contemporary dance and theatre companies in the world, celebrates their history in this docu- mentary made by founding member and key figure of the collective, Alain Platel, on the occasion of their twentieth anniversary.

FROM lEFT TO RIGhT les Ballets De Ci De la, One Flat Thing, Pina Bausch

Contemporary Dance on ScreenA showcase of the best in international contemporary dance on film.

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ElyAS UK (2006: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Katy Pendlebury PERFORMER Elyas Addo

A boy dances through his local market.

DANSENDE JONGEN / DANCING BOy NEThERlANDS (2001: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Marjan laaper

A boy spins across a field, across the screen and out of frame.

AlT I AlT / All IN All NORwAy (2004: 5MIN)

DIRECTOR Torbjørn Skårild PERFORMER Knut Reinertsen

A high-board diver never hits the water.

hOw TO DANCE IF yOU CAN’T GERMANy (2005: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR/ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMER Tamara Kapp

A dance of choreographed stills.

lAElA UK (2006: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR Katy Pendlebury PERFORMER laela henley-Rowe

A girl dances through the urban spaces of london.

POD UK (2005: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Shelley love

A sticky situation in a waiting room.

INEARThIA SwITZERlAND (2006: 2MIN)

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Compagnie Colateral Maren Sandmann

An attempt to spin the earth.

MORE STORIES UK (2006: 6MIN)

DIRECTOR/ChOREOGRAPhER Rajyashree Ramamurthi PERFORMER harsha Chhetri

A journey through childhood memories of Kolkata, India.

lICORETTES NEThERlANDS (2007: 1MIN)

DIRECTOR Sietske Tjallinga

Dancing licorice.

NIGhT PRACTICE UK/SwEDEN (2006: 3MIN)

DIRECTOR Susanna wallin

Coventry’s Kombat Breakers practice moves on a floodlit football field.

TIAGO SEQUENZE UK (2006: 2MIN)

DIRECTOR lizzie Sykes ChOREOGRAPhERS lizzie Sykes and Tiago Gambogi PERFORMER Tiago Gambogi

A man and a spinning camera.

lAGA MEKE: ThE KORO ISlAND MEKE COMPETITION NEw ZEAlAND (2007: 10MIN)

DIRECTOR Kate Stevenson ChOREOGRAPhER/PERFORMERS Koro Island Residents

A short documentary on a traditional dance competition.

KidreelsA program for 3-11 yr-olds co-curated by ReelDance and Cinedans in Amsterdam. This truly international session features films from India, the Netherlands, UK and New Zealand and feature children dancing in diverse cultural settings. (45MIN)

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Thank youReelDance is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The 2008 ReelDance Festival has been made possible with the financial support of the British Council, City of Melbourne, Film Victoria, NSw Film and Television Office and the Performance Space.

we are indebted to all our co-producers across Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to Richard Sowada, Steven Richardson and Jude Gun, David Tyndall, Penny Standard, lisa havilah and Martin Kwasner, Rosemary Miller and Jane longhurst, Amy Barret-lennard and Chrissie Parrott, Maggi Phillips and Nanette hassell, Agnes Michelet, Emma Newman, Gail hewton, Marcus hughes, Cheryl Stock and Janelle Christofis, Sam Oster and Phil Callaghan, Rebecca youdell, Adam hayward, and special thanks to Fiona winning and the staff of the Performance Space.

Thanks also go to our publicist Annette Smith of Ned & Co, ReelDance editor and post-production technician Jonathan Sequeira, Swingtime Australia for their support of the Sydney Swing event, ReelDance song composer Glenn Thompson, sponsors Pettaras Press, Raleigh Paper, Bloch, Zoë Pollitt and Phil Cramley of eskimo, Greg Aitken of Byteback Computing, IF Magazine and Red Rocket Furniture. Thanks to the lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship Fund.

Thanks to the judges of the 2008 ReelDance Awards – Christina Andreef, Ana Kokkinos, Anton, Samantha lang and Meryl Tankard.

Thanks for assistance with programming go to Narelle Gee at ABC TV, Film world, Ivy league Records, Polyvinyl Records, Elefant Records, Jessica Manstetten and the archive at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Janine Dijkmeijer of Cinedans, Emma Gladstone of Sadler’s wells, hans-Peter Metzler of ARTE, Christina Galanopoulou of Videodance, the Norwegian Film Institute, Nuria Rodríguez, and Silvina Szperling of VideoDanzaBA.

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DIRECTOR Erin Brannigan PRODUCER Justine Shih Pearson CO-CURATOR Narelle Benjamin KIDREElS CO-CURATOR Janine Dijkmeijer FEATURE FIlM CURATOR James Nolen FINANCE OFFICER linda luke GRAPhIC DESIGN eskimo PRINTING Pettaras Press PUBlICIST Annette Smith, Ned & Co COVER IMAGE Dis-Oriental PhOTO By Suzy wood

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC Bookings www.acmi.net.au • 03 8663 2583 • Festival Pass (6 sessions) $60/48

ThU MAy 8 7:15PM GlOBAl ShORTS #01: ThIS DANCING lIFE $13/10 9:15PM BREAKIN’ $13/10FRI MAy 9 7:15PM CONTEMPORARy DANCE ON SCREEN $13/10SAT MAy 10 3:15PM GlOBAl ShORTS #03: ThE ART OF MOVING $13/10 7:15PM DANCE DOCUMENTARIES $13/10 9:30PM ThANK GOD IT’S FRIDAy $13/10SUN MAy 11 4PM KIDREElS $13/10 6PM REElDANCE AwARDS $13/10 8:30PM yAMAKAZI $13/10

Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC

MAy 9 1PM GlOBAl ShORTS #02: MUSIC: DANCE: IMAGE FREE 5PM GlOBAl ShORTS #02: MUSIC: DANCE: IMAGE FREE

campbelltown may 9–11IN ASSOCIATION wITh CAMPBEllTOwN ARTS CENTRECampbelltown Arts Centre, Cnr Camden & Appin Rds, Campbelltown, NSw Bookings www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/artscentre • 02 4645 4100 • Festival Pass $40/$35

SUN APR 6 1–4PM SENIORS SwING DANCE FREEFRI MAy 9 8PM GlOBAl ShORTS #01: ThIS DANCING lIFE $12/10SAT MAy 10 11AM KIDREElS $5 2:30PM CONTEMPORARy DANCE ON SCREEN $12/10 8PM GlOBAl ShORTS #02: MUSIC: DANCE: IMAGE $12/10SUN MAy 11 2:30PM REElDANCE AwARDS $12/10JUl 14–AUG 10 VENUE hRS MOVE-ME.COM BOOTh FREE

sydney may 11–18IN ASSOCIATION wITh PERFORMANCE SPACECarriageworks, 245 wilson St, Eveleigh NSw Bookings www.ticketmaster.com.au • 1300 723 038 • info 02 8571 9111 Festival Pass $40/$30 (Excl. ReelDance Awards)

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perth may 28–jun 1IN ASSOCIATION wITh PERTh INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARy ARTS, EDITh COwAN UNIVERSITy, AND STRUTPerth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge, wA Bookings www.pica.org.au • 08 9228 6300 • Festival Pass $40/$30 (Excl. Awards & Swing Club)

wED MAy 28 8PM CONTEMPORARy DANCE ON SCREEN $15/10ThU MAy 29 7PM GlOBAl ShORTS #03: ThE ART OF MOVING $15/10 9PM lOCAl DANCE FIlMS $15/10FRI MAy 30 7PM GlOBAl ShORTS #02: MUSIC: DANCE: IMAGE $15/10 DIGITAl ShORT CUTS (lOCAl) 9:30PM OPEN FORUM – DIGITAl IMAGE FREE*SAT MAy 31 11AM DANCE DOCUMENTARIES $15/10 1PM GlOBAl ShORTS #01: ThIS DANCING lIFE $15/10 6PM SwING ClUB $20/15SUN JUN 1 11AM wORKShOP By INVITE 2PM KIDREElS $10/5 4PM REElDANCE AwARDS $15/10

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hobart may 23–25IN ASSOCIATION wITh SAlAMANCA ARTS CENTREPeacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Pl, hobart, TAS Bookings www.theatreroyal.com.au • 03 6233 2299 • Festival Pass $30 (Four Sessions)

FRI MAy 23 5:30–7:30PM SwING ClUB FREE 8PM REElDANCE AwARDS $10 SAT MAy 24 2PM GlOBAl ShORTS #01: ThIS DANCING lIFE $10 3:30PM GlOBAl ShORTS #02: MUSIC: DANCE: IMAGE $10 5PM GlOBAl ShORTS #03: ThE ART OF MOVING $10 7:30PM CONTEMPORARy DANCE ON SCREEN $10 SUN MAy 25 2PM KIDREElS $10*

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adelaide aug 22–31IN ASSOCIATION wITh ANTISTATICMercury Cinema, 13 Morphett St, Adelaide, SA Bookings www.mrc.org.au • 08 8410 0979 Dates and session times are subject to confirmation

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