In Motion

The third film of our #InMotion18 screendance film series is released today! Watch Edinburgh-based Palestinian dance artist Farah Saleh on creating her dance film ‘Cells of Illegal Education’.

Cells of Illegal Education looks at gestures of civil disobedience carried out during the First Intifada in Occupied Palestine. These gestures were taken by Birzeit University students between 1988 and 1992 when the Israeli military shut down schools and universities, restricting access to education. Young people organised illegal classes and meetings in protest, some of which were documented providing archival resources that Farah worked from.

The piece has previously been exhibited at Somerset House CCA Glasgow HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival so our interview with Farah is an opportunity to learn more about the making and process of creating this powerful work.

C.I.E. features an original soundtrack by Muqata'a - مُقاطعة

As well as being a member of The Work Room, Farah is Associate Artist at Dance Base

Here is our second film for screendance series #InMotion18. This is dance artists Aniela Piasecka, Isabel Palmstierna and filmmaker Daniel Cook (Stasis on creating ‘Faux Pas’, a gutsy music video about women reclaiming the streets at night, shot for electronic music record label Nautilus Rising (Sub Club Glasgow).

Faux Pas subverts preconceived ideas of women dancing in music videos, pushing back against stereotypes and assumptions to create a dance film that refuses to conform.

In Motion is a new screendance film series commissioned by The Space Arts that highlights how Scotland’s choreographers and dance artists are combining film and dance to make powerful creative expressions about the world we live in. A new film is released on our Facebook and YouTube each Monday.

Here it is, the first film of #InMotion18, our new series of dance films and artist interviews all about screendance! Award-winning Director and The Work Room member Katrina McPherson talks to Taiwanese filmmaker Lucas Chih-Peng Kao and dance artist Kai Wen Chuang (London Contemporary Dance School graduate The Place) on their film Movement in Progress.

Kai moved house twelve times in the space of two years when she lived in Glasgow, so their piece fuses documentary film and dance to communicate her experience. A must-see for anyone who has travelled a lot and understands how it feels to live out of boxes:

One week to go until The Work Room's #InMotion18 new dance film series launches! They’ll be talking to artists about the process of making screendance and the many incredible possibilities when choreographers and filmmakers collaborate.

Later this month we will launch a new online screendance film series showcasing Scotland’s dance artists making work for screen. We have been commissioned by digital arts platform The Space to produce a new film series called ‘In Motion’. It builds on the Unveiling Choreographies screenings we hosted at the CCA last autumn.

The pilot project involves Work Room members Katrina McPherson, Monika Smekot, Owa in developing and filming along with Aniela P/ Stasis, Lucas , Kai, Bridie Gane and Farah Saleh.