From May 27th to 30th 2021, the Dance Department of Theater Freiburg will be fully dedicated to the relationship between dance and camera. In the second edition of the INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL FREIBURG (ISDF), a large number of video dances by national and international choreographers will be presented in three online screenings outlining the variety of forms of this multi-faceted and now booming art form. The ISDF is a cooperation between the Dance Department of Theater Freiburg under the artistic direction of Adriana Almeida Pees as initiator and the two screen dance experts and founders of the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne Marisa C. Hayes and Franck Boulègue. The aim of the festival is to consolidate the highly international art form of Screendance not only in Freiburg and the federal state Baden-Württemberg, but also in the border triangle and throughout all Germany.

Due to the current pandemic situation, the second version of the festival will take place in a purely online form. It consists of a national category and, in addition, presents a special focus on current trends and developments in video dance in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. Artists from Germany could apply for the screening of the national screen dance films via an open call; the films from South America were selected by the artistic directors of the three most famous Screendance festivals in South America. In this context, we are particularly pleased about the cooperation with the Festival Dança em Foco in Brazil, the Festival VideoMovimiento in Colombia and the Festival Bestias Danzantes in Chile. Furthermore, the results of the numerous Screendance workshops at Theater Freiburg will be shown, in which over a hundred participants from all over the world took part in the past year alone.

The presentations of the Screendance films will again be accompanied by internationally known and renowned experts this year. The editor of the International Journal of Screendance and lecturer in performance and visual arts at the University of Brighton, Dr. Claudia Kappenberg, will present the selection of video films from Germany and will moderate the open discussion with the audience on Saturday evening following the screening. The festival will culminate in a joint talk on Sunday evening between the curator team and festival directors Leonel Brum (BR), Soraya Vargas (COL) and Mayo Rodriguez (CL).

Programm ISDF 2021

Thursay, 27/5
11am-12pm   Screendance Workshop Introductory level (part 1)
16pm-17pm   Screendance Workshop Introductory level (part 1)

Friday, 28/5
11am-12pm   Screendance Workshop Introductory level (part 2)
16pm-17pm   Screendance Workshop Introductory level (part2)
20pm-22pm   Opening of the festival: Welcome by the curators 
                     1° Screening: Category South America / Brazil 
                     Curated by Leonel Brum – Festival Dança em foco

                     LINK TO THE 1° SCREENING


Saturday, 29/5
14pm-16pm   Zoom-Session with former participants of the Screendance Workshops Online
20pm-22pm   2° Screening: German films
                    With an introduction by Dr. Claudia Kappenberg
                    Followed by an artist and audience discussion via Zoom
                    moderated by Dr. Claudia Kappenberg 

                    LINK TO THE 2° SCREENING


Sunday, 30/5
19pm-21pm  3° Screening: Catgory South America / Chile and Colombia
                    Curated by Mayo Rodriguez (Festival Bestias Danzantes) and Soraya Vargas &
                    Dixon Quitian (Festival VideoMovimiento)                

                    LINK TO THE 3° SCREENING

                    Final talk via Zoom with the curators and festival directors from South America
                    With translation Spanisch-Englisch

Franck Boulègue, MA
is a dance filmmaker, scientist and educator. He holds a master degree in Screendance Education at La Sorbonne in Paris. He is a regular contributor to film magazines such as LES CAHIERS DU CINÉMA, POSITIF and is the co-editor of ART IN MOTION: CURRENT RESEARCH IN SCREENDANCE (2015). As a Screendance teacher he has been invited to numerous international workshops, including at La Maison de la danse in France and at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain, as well as at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. The Screendance project GAFFE co-created with Marisa C. Hayes won the Susan Braun Award of the New York Dance Films Association. He co-founded the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne in France and the annual congress for the promotion of screendance art and research. He is currently working as a doctoral student at the University of Liège in Belgium on SCREENDANCE AND SPECTRALITY.


Marisa C. Hayes, MA
is an interdisciplinary artist, scientist and educator working at the interface of moving images and choreography. In addition to the co-directorate with Franck Boulègue at the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne she creates Screendance works, which have been honoured the Best Video Dance by Pentacle Movement Media in New York. She is a regular contributor to publications such as THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SCREENDANCE STUDIES (Oxford University Press, 2016) and has published ART IN MOTION: CURRENT RESEARCH IN SCREENDANCE (2015) with Franck Boulègue. Following her master's degree in Screendance Education at La Sorbonne in Paris, she regularly teaches Screendance workshops in France and abroad (Dance House Ireland, La Maison de la danse in France, etc.). She is editor-in-chief of the French National Dance Research Journal REPÈRES, CAHIER DE DANSE and Screendance-curator at La Briqueterie - Center de développement chorégraphique du val-de-marne. She is currently working on her dissertation CHOREOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES APPLIED TO FILMMAKING AND EDITING TECHNIQUES at La Sorbonne.


Dr. Adriana Almeida Pees,
German and Brazilian citizen, has been Head of the Dance Department and Curator at Theater Freiburg since the season2017/18. For more than 30 years she has been working professionally in the field of dance as a cultural producer and curator, solo dancer, choreographer, dance scholar and guest lecturer at various universities, dance centres and festivals in Europe and South America. As a dancer she worked at Ballet da Cidade de São Paulo, at Theater Bremen and at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. She studied psychology and holds a PhD in dance studies from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas-SP, Institute of Arts Department of Dance, with the research subject Technical-poetic foundations of the actor. As a guest lecturer, she taught at various universities between 2008 and 2015. She is a Certified Teacher in Body-Mind Centering and, as such, Program Director for Brazil and Uruguay. As the co-founder and co-managing director of the international production office prod.art.br in São Paulo she has been involved in the realization of more than 50 cultural exchange projects in Brazil, South America and Europe since 2004.

Leonel Brum - Festival Dança em Foco (Brazil)
PhD in Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ and artistic director of the Festival Dança em Foco. He conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Lisbon - Ulisboa (2017-2018). He is a professor and coordinator of dance courses at the Institute of Culture and Art at the Federal University of Ceará - ICA / UFC and coordinator of the Midiadance: Laboratory of Dance and Multimedia, at UFC. He also acts as coordinator of the Brazilian team of the TEPe project: Technologically Expanded Performance (2018-2020), a partnership between UFC and Ulisboa represented by prof. Dr. Daniel Tércio, in Portugal. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ibero-American Videodance Network for the production of the Bienal Corpo, Imagem e Movimento, Madrid / Spain (2019). He was dance coordinator at the National Foundation of Arts Funarte / Ministry of Culture. He also served as a dancer, choreographer and professional actor. He has published books and articles on dance, video dance, dance history and cultural production in the arts.

Soraya Vargas - Festival VideoMovimiento (Colombia)                                                             Co-founder and Co-Director of the Fundación Imagen en Movimiento. She pioneered the Videodanza in Colombia, with investigations since 1997. She has realized different projects at national and international levels and investigates the relationship between technology and dance, dance and other language. Professional dancer and choreographer, Degree in Artistic Education, Interdisciplinary Artist. She is the producer of the Videodanza Festival of Colombia VIDEOMOVIMIENTO, since the year 2004.  Teacher in Danza Contemporánea y Videodanza, Co-director of the Danza multimedia company SaLToAlTo since the year 2000. Documentary filmmaker in Danza. Coordinadora Centro Documentación de Videodanza Colombia. Active member of the REDIV Red Iberoamericana de Danza. Secretary of Culture of Mosquera - Colombia. Winner of several prizes as a dancer and choreographer, as a videodanza director. She relates in her scenic journey, her disciplinary approach and dialogue with new artistic trends.

Mayo Rodriguez - Festival Bestias Danzantes (Chile)
Chilean performer, dancer and environmental engineer. Creative activator and producer with a focus on dance, cross-disciplinary and connection. Curator on dance, film, dance cinema and Artistic Director of Bestias Danzantes Dance Film Festival; Chilean platform focused on the exhibition, circulation, training and experimentation of Dance Cinema. As a dancer – performer, she has been part of several pieces of renowned national choreographers, including large-format pieces with multicultural and civic casts, performed in relevant festivals in Chile, France, Germany and Holland. As a creative and executive producer, she has participated in the creation and production of several creative and dance projects in Chile and abroad (Germany, France, Holland, Colombia, Argentina, Sweden, Finland); including 4 international tours of the renowned Chilean dance company “Jose Vidal & Cia”, with large format works and with a mixed cast of Chilean, local and citizen dancers (Holland Festival, Netherlands; Marseille Festival, France; Fokus Tanz #4: FAUX PAS and LIVE ART #9, Kampnagel, Germany). As a curator, she has developed and collaborated in more than 20 special Dance Cinema programs for biennials, film festivals, dance festivals, screen dance festivals, universities and non-conventional spaces in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Romania and Sweden.