‘Jumping Frames — Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival’ is presented by City Contemporary Dance Company and aims to provide a platform for the convergence of film and dance. The festival's curator, Elysa Wendi, devotes continuous effort to the curation of a diverse program that showcases the hybridity of film and dance, catering to both dance enthusiasts and film lovers. Through ‘Jumping Frames’, we explore movement, choreography, and the human body within the frame.

The dialogue will cover the programming trajectory and strategy of ‘Jumping Frames’, to discuss how the Festival be curated for its goal to present a range of hybridity with varying degrees of manifestation, bringing two kinds of audiences together, while dance audiences focus on the content, craft and representation of bodies in space, and film audiences usually consider the choreography of all elements in the mise en scène.

Through this talk, participating students will be provided with a comprehensive understanding of the collaborative process behind the creation, distribution, and programming for a festival. The conversation would be an insightful one and to inspire students to explore new opportunities and experiment between both the two art forms.

Speaker:
Elysa Wendi, Filmmaker, Dance Artist and Curator

Moderator:
Prof. Anna CY Chan, Dean of the School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

About Elysa Wendi
Elysa Wendi is a filmmaker, dance artist, and curator based in Hong Kong. A dancer and choreographer by training, Wendi's practice investigates the possibilities of expressing choreographic ideas through the media of film, curatorial projects, and other performance-based interventions. In 2015, She co-founded Cinemovement, a platform facilitating trans-disciplinary creations between cinema and performance through a residential laboratory, with Singaporean film producer Jeremy Chua. Her artistic accolades include winning Best Experimental Film at the 2018 South Taiwan Film Festival, Best Documentary at Hong Kong ArtHouse Film Festival 2020 and the recent Gold Award from IFVA Hong Kong 2023 open category with her film As I Imagine My Body Moving.

Wendi was working as the guest curator for ‘Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Video Dance Festival’, presented by the City Contemporary Dance Company, from 2018 onwards, before being appointed Festival Director from its 2022 edition when the Festival rebranded its name to ‘Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival’ in 2022. As festival director, Wendi hopes to re-examine the framework for considering performance from an audio-visual perspective and its fluidities. Drawing from this, she aims to further Jumping Frames' future possibilities as a platform to develop emerging voices in the fields of expanded media between somatic practices and image-making, cine-choreographic notions and the moving image, as well as digital performance and technology.

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