Live ASL Interpreted Event
In this workshop we use movement, photography, and storytelling to create narrative portraits.
Paired with our Off-the-Wall screening (5-6PM PDT), participants will meet at 3:30PM to workshop storyboard techniques as a springboard to learn how to develop dance portraits and characters for the screen. What is your story? How does framing portray your identity? How do you communicate to collaborators about a vision for a film?
Facilitator and dance artist Virginia Duivenvoorden will guide us in a peer learning session on storyboarding for dance artists and filmmakers alike. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to make their own storyboard portrait. As we learn together through inquiry, we will gather the results in a montage of our workshop findings.
Participants will reconnect post-screening to debrief, share and discuss the films, their discoveries, and learnings from the workshop.
Please note this workshop has a maximum of 15 participants. Passholders will be contacted before the festival to RSVP to limited-capacity events.
About Virginia Duivenvoorden
Virginia is a performing artist, choreographer and educator. She shares her artistic practice through performance, teaching, community engaged dance and arts education. Virginia is of Irish and English descent and born in the United Kingdom. She came to Coast Salish Territory with her family as a one year old. Educated in dance at Arts Umbrella and SFU, Virginia started her performing arts career by dancing with the Karen Jamieson Dance Company and interpreting solos by choreographers Serge Bennathan and Cornelius Fischer-Credo. Virginia’s choreography and movement practice began to develop while she was completing a BA in dance and performance at the European Dance Development Centre. The program in Arnhem, Netherlands later became Master of Choreography at ArtEZ University of the Arts. She danced in the Audio Visual Experimental Festival in Arnhem while living in the Netherlands, collaborating on dance, installation, video and multi-media works. On returning, Virginia is grateful for time spent learning with dance artists Margaret Grenier and Elder Margaret Harris from the Dancers of Damelahamid.
Virginia also worked with Dr Tod Pelly DC and her interest has grown in the field of arts, health and medicine. She designs art and dance programs for high school and elementary students. In 2020, VDCM dance collective was formed together with Kay Huang Barnes of Crossmaneuver. VDCM is supported by North Vancouver Recreation and Culture, PHT Creative Hub Cooperative, The Dance Centre, and New Works.
Photos by Brooke McAllister
Accessibility
This event will take place on Zoom. It will have live auto transcription as well as ASL interpretation. An edited copy of the transcript will be available for passholders between 12-48 hours after the event ends.
If you identify as Deaf or hard of hearing and are planning on attending, please email Kayla DeVos, Associate Producer, at kayla@f-o-r-m.ca so we can connect you with our interpreters, so they may best match their interpreting to your specific language use.