SEPTEMBER 9 – 11, From 10:00
at THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST

Every year, Bucharest International Dance Film Festival invites renowned dance filmmakers in Bucharest to teach intensive workshops to contribute to the professional development of the local creative industry. In 2022, we have the pleasure of inviting Omari 'Motion' Carter, the founder of the award-winning screendance production company The Motion Dance Collective. This year, Omari is also part of the festival jury.

The workshop is dedicated to dancers, performers, choreographers, theatre and film directors, directors of photography, and visual artists who want to explore the dance film genre. Students from academies with a profile in dance, theatre, film, and visual arts are also encouraged to apply.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge and based on prior registration through email at contact@bidff.ro by no later than September 4, 2022. The content of the email must include the CV, biography, or portfolio of the participants, along with a paragraph in which the artists mention what type of video and sound equipment they can bring to the workshop (e.g. camera, tripod, other camera accessories, computer). Attending the workshop is not conditioned by the type of equipment the participants have, but it offers the organizers an overview of the sort of apparatus owned by the selected artists and the opportunity to complete it, if necessary. The BIDFF team reserves the right to select who attends the workshop.

ABOUT THE LAB

Within this workshop, participants will gain an insight into the production process of The Motion Dance Collective and explore exercises that look to develop a practice that bridges the gap between moving body and moving image. From mediation to idea, we will look at the choreography in front of the camera, the choreography of the camera, and the choreography developed in the edit, as participants aim to develop short digital-dance experiments throughout the three days. Together we will gain practical experience with tools that inject an essence of hybridity into our own on-going practices.

About OMARI 'MOTION' CARTER (UK)

Omari 'Motion' Carter is a screendance practitioner, hip-hop culture aficionado and body percussionist based in London, UK. 

A first-class BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University led Omari to perform for seven years in the West End and international touring productions of Stomp!. During this time, Omari choreographed, directed, performed, and produced a varied reel of dance-film with screendance production company, The Motion Dance Collective, which he founded in 2011. 

Omari is a graduate of the trailblazing Master's degree in Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School, where he currently works as a lecturer in dance. 

Most recently, Omari has created immersive-digital dance for Pavilion Dance South West (Bournemouth, UK), features twice in Vol. 12 of The International Journal of Screendance, and was a speaker and workshop leader at STATE OF THE ART: International Symposium on Screendance at UW-Madison (USA).

For more information about his work, please visit www.motiondancecollective.com.