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First dance festival entirely dedicated to animation, the event aims to stimulate and encourage creation where dance and animated image mingle.
Festival supported by the association Hangars Numériques, it contributes to the implementation a single platform exchange and encounter, a bridge between dancers, choreographers and moving image animators.
Criteria
- Participation -
No temporal selection criteria will be made for this second edition. All directors or their rights holders in connection with the subject are invited to participate. The digital platform set up by the association aims to constitute a new scene for animated dance and a new performance space for dance entertainment. This initiative responds to a lack of recognition for this form of expression in dance, which has been in place since the advent of cartoons.
Specificities
- Animated dance -
The festival, unique in its kind, wishes to highlight and promote creations where the imagination and the pictorial world take precedence over real shots. In this sense, are solicited the realizations presenting a work of choreographic animation (cartoons, animations of synthesis, stop motions, animations real time, etc.). The scenic forms or installations concerned are invited to send a video recording. The festival favors dance animation, and ranges from the most traditional to the most experimental.
Platform / Catalog
- Collective -
The project aims to unite the creators of this hybrid discipline, constantly renewed by technological advances, in order to better be able to represent, in a collection here carefully recueillie thanks to this annual call for participation.
Hangars Numériques constitutes a catalog of the selections of the festival, which serves as a research and study platform on the transition from the dancing body to the image. This collection constitutes the animated dance archives. Any dissemination outside this internet platform and the places of representation of this festival with cultural aim is not considered.