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Dear colleagues,
Would you like to support a crowdfunding campaign to support the production of unique anthropological resource that can be used to teach on the anthropology of the body and dance, visual anthropology, contemporary social movements and the politics of dance and movement?
We have just launched a campaign to ask the wider anthropological community and contact improvisation dance community to help us fund the post-production of our anthropological documentary on contact improvisation.
Please click on the below link if you'd like to know more and see a trailer and learn how the documentary developed:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/338886361/five-ways-in-a-documentary-on-contact-improvisatio
‘Five Ways In’ is the first anthropological documentary on a personally and societally challenging dance and improvisation form. Since it’s early development in the 1970s on the West Coast of the US, it has expanded to much of Europe. Germany has one of the most active communities of dancers. We focused on the personal and transformational journeys of five dancers at the biggest and first international festival, The Freiburg International Contact Festival in it's 13th year. Our documentary was initiated by an open invitation from the organising team to document the festival in which ever way we wanted, giving us total freedom for our project.
We chose five people to reveal a broad range of backgrounds, age and experience to explore the philosophical, political, community, technical, spiritual and professional meanings of the dance form. Our five protagonists explore what CI means to them, both in relation to the week of the festival and as it relates to their prior experience and future aspirations.
I was inspired to update in a visual anthropological way Cynthia Novack's classic ethnography 'Sharing the Dance' in the 1990 on the US, for the European context. We have used feedback extensively, and our plan is to create a webpage that will present the process of making the film as well as on the form itself.
I hope you can support us or pass on our request to others on social media or on email. There are many ways to contribute from £1 upwards. For £20 you will get an advanced HD version of the film to show as you wish, which you could give as a gift for Christmas.
Do not hesitate to email me with any questions.
Kind regards,
Mike
Dr Mike Poltorak
Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology
Director of Recruitment and Admissions
School of Anthropology and Conservation
Marlowe Building (Rm 14), University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff/poltorak_mike.html
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