Screendance at the core of French Cultural Ambassadors' work:
Franck Boulègue & Marisa C. Hayes, artistic directors of Company Body Cinema and the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, have recently been named Cultural Ambassadors to Hong Kong. They will travel as part of the French Delegation in October 2011 during Hong Kong's “Burgundy Week” festivities, October 24-30. The artist-ambassadors will present two lecture presentations at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. On October 24, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m., the lecture will focus on contemporary practices in screendance, featuring a screening of selected works from the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy. The second lecture at the HKAPA on October 29, 11 am.- noon, will address The Rite of Spring as a phenomenon in contemporary dance, from Nijinsky to the present, based on Marisa Hayes and Franck Boulègue's recent residency at Tanzhaus nrw (Dusseldorf) during which the pair was commissed to create a new version of The Rite of Spring and conducted research, mentored by Milicient Hodson (Nijinsky reconstruction). An evening presentation of the artist-ambassador's own dance films will be screened at the Paulée Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on October 26, 8 p.m.
All events are sponsored by the Regional Government of Burgundy. The two lecture presentations are generously supported by partnerships with the Hong Kong Dance Alliance and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Performing Arts Education Center and Graduate Education Center): http://www.hkdanceall.org/ & http://www.hkapa.edu/
From Hong Kong, Franck Boulègue and Marisa C. Hayes will travel on to Vietnam at the invitation of the Hanoi Cinematheque where they will present two evenings of dance film lectures and screenings on November 3rd and 4th.