EXCHANGE CHOREOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

The Festival has come to a close, resting for the foreseeable future. Twelve years of exchanging dance ideas and dialogue with artists and audiences alike. Thank you, Tulsa, OK, for being our home for so many years and through so many light cues. It was truly an honor. While the festival has no current plans to resume, The Bell House has other ways to engage and connect. Feel free to stay a bit and look around at the projects created and the people who made them.

Even though the curtain has closed on Exchange Choreography Festival, we remember all the wonderful art that graced our Tulsa stages and all the artists who are working on so many edifying and cool dances. Keep dancing!

Until the next project…..

AND CURTAIN……Exchange Choreography Festival closed in 2021 but feel free to take a look at all the dance that was made and shared…

Dance should further people and relationships between people, therefore fueling the generative nature of ideas.

The flagship of The Bell House is EXCHANGE CHOREOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. This year the festival will center a weekend program of curated DANCE FOR CAMERA workshops and events. There are also networking events designed to foster dialogue pivoting around discussions to support, explore and inform the artists' process.

The Exchange Choreography Festival's mission to facilitate collaboration of ideas and people in the choreographic process. It is our belief that people furthering dance for dances’ sake is not enough.

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“I had a wonderful experience during Exchange, even before the event itself! The communication - through email - was efficient and timely and it was clear to me that the event was being produced by a team of knowledgeable and experienced professionals. During the event, there was an environment for genuine exchange and artists from different backgrounds, ages, histories found a space to show their work and improve together. The site-specific improvisation was one of my favorite moments, when we could dance and move together.”

— Rosely Conz | 2019 Exchange Choreography Festival Presenting Artist

2021 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Friday, July 23rd

DANCE + FRAME: Creative Context , a screen dance event
July 23 @ 6 pm
Circle Cinema
Curated by OkDFF founder, Jessica Vokoun
Tickets: circlecinema.org

Friday, July 30th

6-9 pm CDT Creative Ideas Workshop with Richard James Allen

Registration

Saturday, July 31st

9-11 am CDT Creative Camera I Workshop with Katrina McPherson
11 - 12 pm Lunch

12-2 pm CDT Creative Camera II Workshop with Katrina McPherson

6-9 pm CDT Creative Editing Workshop with Karen Pearlman

Registration

SPECIAL GUESTS

Jessica Vokoun has performed internationally with the dance-theatre company NC5, and across the US with Tulsa Modern Movement, Li Chiao Ping Dance, and the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. Ms.Vokoun completed her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at the Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee. Ms. Vokoun has served as an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Tulsa. As a video artist, she has worked with Alexandra Beller (NY), Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD), da:zain, Tulsa Ballet (OK), and Ko-Thi Dance Company (WI). Ms. Vokoun founded the Oklahoma Dance Film Festival (Tulsa, OK) and has curated film programs for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR) and the Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI). She has served on the Living Arts Dance Committee, the Board of Directors Bell House Arts and Choregus Productions Board of Directors.

Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits dancefilm, documentary, and drama. Her recent films have, between them, won 6 best editing awards, 3 best directing awards, and more than 20 other awards and citations from festivals internationally. Karen’s book ‘Cutting Rhythms’ is a widely used textbook on editing as a form of choreography, now in its 2nd edition. She is a senior lecturer in Screen Practice at Macquarie University in Sydney. http://www.karenpearlman.net/

A multi-award-winning Australian filmmaker and one of Australia's most versatile dance artists, who in his creative scope has been compared to Sir Robert Helpmann, Artistic Director of The Physical TV Company, Richard James Allen has combined a unique international career as a choreographer, director, writer, dancer, actor, artistic director, producer, festival director, scholar and educator, with work screened, broadcast, published, or performed in thirty countries, and nominated for or winning major prizes in dance, filmmaking, screenwriting, playwriting, poetry, digital media and scholarship. http://physicaltv.com.au

KATRINA MCPHERSON is an award-winning director, artist, scholar and educationalist whose research and practice has contributed to the evolution of screendance for more than 30 years. Since the early 1990s, Katrina has received commissions and public and private funding to make work, which includes single screen films, installations and interactive on-line productions, working with many international artists. Katrina is a much sought after teacher and workshop leader and the author of "Making Video Dance - a step by step guide to creating dance for the screen”.( Routledge, 2018). Most recently, Katrina has been adapting her teaching to the on-line environment and enjoying the new concepts and potential that this is offering in this work with students from across the globe. https://www.katrinamcpherson.com

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