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YEAR MAKE & MODEL is a Director's Choice selection of Black Maria Film +Video Festival.For over 30 years the Festival has been acclaimed for advocating, supporting and widely exhibiting fresh short works up to an hour in length by emerging as well as by veteran independent film and videomakers.This is the second consecutive year Renzi work has been selected for inclusion in Black Maria's touring

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The year 2011 was very good to me. Thanks to arts presenters in the fine state of Rhode Island I was essentially commissioned to make two dances - one shot in a car repair shop and one performed live in the woods.Also in 2011 YEAR MAKE & MODEL was screened in festivals in the US and abroad, along with last year's short AQUA BOOTY.And July 2011 saw a shoot of my latest dance film, with trio

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Tomorrow I head off to attend a dance film festival called Cinedans in Amsterdam, and then to In Shadow Festival in Lisbon, where both of my recent shorts - YEAR MAKE & MODEL and AQUA BOOTY - are being screened.Meanwhile, YEAR was also accepted to its first non-dance film festival: one in Duncan, Oklahoma, which showed PORCH STORIES in 2008. Even though it's called Trail Dance Film Festival, it's

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Can you pick out the iconic shot of Amos & Tina from NOBODY'S DARLING taken by Matthew Murphy?DARLING showed last month in at Rice University's Third Coast Film Festival in Dallas Texas. It will also be screened later this fall in Budapest, Hungary as part of EDIT 2011.And YEAR, MAKE & MODEL is starting to make the rounds - last month at Sans Souci and this coming November in Buenos Aires as

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Most recently, I concocted a real live dance in a yew forest in Newport, Rhode Island as part of Open for Dancing, a wonderful site-specific festival that is run biennially by Island Moving Company. I made new friends in the cast of 30, enjoyed hawk and owl in the bird sanctuary, and led a willing audience deep into...Tales Told in the Woods. Pictured at left is Janna Pederson, a most

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Last you heard it was spring with Mica in an apple tree. (Let's make this interactive: if you want to see APPLE TREE, write a comment below or send me an email and I'll post it on Vimeo.) Now it's full-on summer and I'm almost finished editing a project that was rehearsed and shot in a hot minute! I only had a month to cast, coordinate and rehearse with 3 busy, beautiful young men: Carlos

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Below is a slideshow of the solo I made with the ever-delightful Mica Bernas for a show last month at Dixon Place called Performance Mix. The music is NOT what played while Mica danced, but it suits the goofy spirit of her character as captured in the photographs by Matt Murphy. It turned out to be a throwaway piece - but this is how I'd like to remember it.Last year for Dixon Place, I made the

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Two Renzi events one on filmone live happening this weekend Lower East Side, NYCSaturday April 30 at 2:30WHERE THE DANCE IS, screened as part of the Black Maria Film Festivalat the New York Public Library, Seward Park Branch, 192 East Broadway at Jefferson StreetSunday, May 1 at 7:30Mica Bernas dances a brand new (never-to-be-repeated?) soloas part of Performance Mix Festival's "25x3" with 25

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Aqua-booty was shot last summer, and began being submitted to festivals in early 2011. I've just started hearing back from some of the international film festivals - dance-related and otherwise.The first acceptance is from danca em foco in Brazil - a country where, from all reports, booty is much beloved.The next acceptance - in a festival that takes place at the end of this month - just came

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By now you know about Vimeo - not to mention YouTube - as ways to have a Renzi festival right on your desktop.But two of my dance films are currently visible on websites NOT dedicated to lil' ol' me.My 2007 TEXAS PLATES to Patti Scialfa's "City Boys" is still up on her website, which pleases me no end. She can keep it up there as long as she likes, courtesy of me!And the president of Rhode

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At left is a screenshot from Year, Make & Model, an express-train of a videodance project I made during a week in January with 7 college dancers at Rhode Island College in Providence.I auditioned students, and began working with my wonderful cast that very afternoon, shooting 4 days later, in a local auto body shop.The "premiere" is February 25-27 at the RIC spring concert, the only dance/film on

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Hello Marta,I've just finished looking at your film "Where the Dance Is." There's a lot to recommend it as it's got great energy, insight, diversity, expands on the definition of "dance" (which of course would be expected of you) and is illuminating, positive, everything good!I'm selecting it as a Director's Choice piece which means we'd like to include it in our tour as one of about 60 films/

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We are pleased to inform you that your film "Texas Plates" has been accepted into the 2011 San Francisco Dance Film Festival. We received more than 100 entries from 25 countries and selected fewer than twenty films, so congratulations on a very strong entry.(Editor's Note: Both TEXAS PLATES and 3 SPEED, below, were projects made in summer workshops, with great teachers - a chance to collaborate

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3 SPEED is being shown this month as part of the International Festival of VideoDance of Chile. The programming theme that links these works is the idea of spaces: indoors, outdoors and in between.And for news of yet more screenings - of yet other Renzi titles - in March, don't neglect to click on "Older Posts" below, right.

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NOBODY'S DARLING is being screened as part of a collaboration between Trinity University and The Attic Repertory Theater in San Antonio, Texas and Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (which has shown Renzi work for 4 years running.)Check website for program details.And I just learned that DARLING is also showing in a sort of sidebar - as part of a compilation shown in the "open programme" as a

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In the past year I've had the pleasure of alternating between making work for live performance with work on video: a see saw that only seems to add to my job satisfaction. Too much time spent editing at the computer can drive a girl crazy. On the other hand, I have spent decades weighing the expense of rehearsal studios, dancers' pay and commuting time against the rewards of presenting live work

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It's appropriate that for this post - a 1990 Marta Renzi & Dancers newsletter scanned from the Archives - I've finally managed to upgrade the blogspot technology: note the improved image available via the YouTube video player below. A good thing too, because the viewer "plays" not images this time, but the original newsletter pages - complete with anachronisms like a defunct return address for

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For the month of September, I was in residency at an arts colony called The Yard (on Martha's Vineyard) making a new dance called THE GREAT WORLD SPINS. I got to spend the entire month in a beautiful place with free rehearsal space and wonderful dancers at my disposal. While there, I got an email inviting me to show something live in New York, on a mixed bill with a great collection of other

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My dance films are showing all over the place (see below) but I want to crow a little about one in particular:In Sao Carlos, Brazil on August 20, as part of the fourth edition of the Sao Carlos International Videodance Festival, there was a "Special Session," celebrating...ME! The program reads:Dedicated to another great partner, as a sign of gratitude for her constant and brilliant presence.It

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(posted from The Yard, where I'm working on a new dance...)BRICKTOWN, which was shot at Garnerville Arts & Industrial Complex in 2007 and edited to killer music by cellist/composer Erik Friedlander, will be screened at an opening reception this coming Sunday: September 12 from 1:00-4:00in the Media Project SpaceRockland Center for the ArtsCome if you can. It's only 8 minutes long, but it's on a

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In February I shot a screen version of the live duet NOBODY's DARLING while we prepared for its live showing at Dixon Place. I recently got word that the screen version of DARLING was shown in Barcelona on July 14th. The event was sponsored in conjunction with a Festival in Boulder Colorado: Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, which has presented my work for 3 - no, this makes 4! - years

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In 2008, between rehearsals for a live quartet, 4 wonderful dancers and I spent time at a dock on Martha's Vineyard. The footage we gathered became the videodance THOSE DAYS, which showed at the 92nd Street Y late last year. It can be seen on the small screen on your own computer. As I said in a Facebook posting, my work is not typical of what shows on the dancemedia.com site. But I take a

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And I still get to make - and show! - live dances. Arthur Aviles and Tina Vasquez are dancing NOBODY'S DARLING again, for one night only.Please come see it as part of DanceNOW in a showcase of short dances by a dozen choreographers.Saturday, September 11, 7:30 p.m.Dance Theater WorkshopI'll be slamming back to NYC that weekend myself, from a month-long residency at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard.

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Here are several ways to celebrate:Click here to savor swans in winter.THAW, a video dance I made in 2007 is back up online, as part of Dance on Camera on Hulu. Click here to view a short trailer ofWHERE THE DANCE IS, the doc following teacher/choreographer/ comedian Doug Elkins as he works with Beacon high school students, was selected by the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival August 18

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Wait, is that Arthur Aviles hovering over Tina Vasquez's body? No, but it might be, since those two gorgeous dancers are re-inventing NOBODY'S DARLING at BAAD! in the Bronx. Haven't been there yet? It's easier than you think. Friday, May 7@ 8:00 pmDUETS OF LOVE AND OTHER SIGNIFICANT MOTIONSThis exciting and beautiful evening features duets by Marta Renzi, Maria Bauman & Tere Parker, Arthur

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I'm delighted to announce that my short video 3 SPEED has been accepted into Danca Em Foco, a dance for the camera festival in Brazil. But for those of you not flying down to Rio, you can see a mash-up of some of 3 SPEED + TEXAS PLATES as well as footage shot with my Flip from NYC's High Line, set to pretty great music by The Break. It's a competition, part of Genero TV, which makes no bones

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Thanks to your votes last month, WHERE THE DANCE IS has made the big time: from the Audience Choice screening to an "Official Selection" of the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival.Mark your calendar now for Monday, April 26th at 8:00 pm.Here's the info - tickets are cheaper if you reserve now. After party at the KGB Bar? And check out a post about WHERE by Eva Yaa Asantewaa on her

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My last post here ended with: "let's make art in the suburbs!" Well, it's already happening...The first Rockland Filmmakers screening happens tomorrow, pairing my work (and work-in-progress) with that of playwright/filmmaker Samuel B. Harps. Dynamos David Kaminski and Matthew Seig have started a Rockland Filmmakers page on Vimeo and a group on Facebook.And Sam is keeping the momentum going, with

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Many thanks to those of you who made it to Dixon Place last week to see the premiere of NOBODY'S DARLING, choreographed during a month of rehearsals with Amos Wolff and Tina Vasquez. Here are glowing words from friend Elena TaJohttp://OGReHome.com:You really know how to choreograph! said the dunce who knows nothing. I just loved the purposeful play, the mystery of their interaction, the

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Come on out and see stuff!February 14 @ 7 pm screening of MY FERAL VALENTINE MoviehouseFebruary 23 @ 8 pmscreening of WHERE THE DANCE IS (Trailer on Vimeo or below)NYC Downtown Short Film FestivalFebruary 24 @ 8 pmlive performance of NOBODY'S DARLING Dixon PlaceMarch 12 @ 6:30 screening of 3 SPEED and other films as part of Rockland Filmmakers New City

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Yikes! The shortest month of the year, and we're already a week into it. At left in a photo by the wonderful Matt Murphy are Amos Wolff and Tina Vasquez who are helping me make a new duet to be performed at:DIXON PLACEFebruary 24th @ 8:00 pmAnd, a week from now MY FERAL VALENTINEhas its New York premiere - in Brooklyn!MOVIEHOUSEFebruary 14th @ 7:00 pmBring a date, and be prepared for a mixed bag

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As I write, it's election day in Massachusetts - and the whole world is sending support to Haiti.If you still have a bit more time in your day, go to ShortsNonStop and cast your vote for my video: 3 SPEED. Click on a star 1-5 to vote. Here!

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Wait a minute. Harvest in January? Well, it seems that past projects are beginning to bear fruit, even during these chilly months.Be sure to read all 3 posts for details:WHERE THE DANCE IS will be shown at Beacon School on January 28 at 2:00 pm, during the 2010 Dance on Camera Festival, co-sponsored by Dance Films Association and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.Not just because I'm on the

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MY FERAL VALENTINE - which you somehow missed in its premiere in Buenos Aires last fall - is being shown as part of the 3rd Anniversary Party of Moviehouse on Sunday, February 14 at 7:00 pm in Brooklyn.Details...

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Click as you might on the above images, you won't get them to play as a video. (I know it's a tease, but I'm hoping you'll actually attend one of these screenings in person - or ante up with a donation, at which point I'll mail you a DVD for private viewing.) However, if you must have a dose of Renzi, and you missed the dialogue on this blog about COLD SPELL about a year ago, grab that mouse and

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In late 2009, I was on a hunt for music that would suit the video quartet that is Part II of THOSE DAYS, because the Chopin piano I was using was almost too beautifully liquid for the sunlight and splashing water. By chance I read an article about a composer who plays double bass and toy piano, which sparked my curiosity enough to poke around for this Jane Wang person on MySpace. A telephone

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You say you'd like to seemy most recent dance/films:WHERE THE DANCE IS, MY FERAL VALENTINE andTHOSE DAYS?Well, you'll just have to send me a year-end, tax-deductibledonation of any size.That's the "...looking forward" part!

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Reserve your tickets to see Doug Elkins' completely entertaining FRAULEIN MARIA at Dance Theater Workshop on December 10-12 & 17-19. In the DTW lobby, beginning at 5:00 each day of the show, you can also catch my recently-completed WHERE THE DANCE IS, a 16-minute documentary featuring Doug's work with 8 Beacon High School students.Read Ohad Naharin's advice to dance critics, upon receiving a

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A rare opportunity to see Renzi work live in New York, as part of the 92nd Street Y's 75th Anniversary year of events.Called THOSE DAYS, it's a work in progress, in two parts: June and November.In November a man and woman move within the invisible ties that have bound them to each other for years. Is June - the videodance that follows - their memory of those days in the past - full of sunshine

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I am delighted to announce that one of my recent videodances - MY FERAL VALENTINE - is having its premiere this month in Argentina as part of VideodanzaBA held in Buenos Aires. Featuring Leonides Arpon and Mica Bernas, with music by Lila Downs, it was shot about a year ago, but was only completed earlier this summer. Followers here saw an excerpt which is still visible here on the blogspot.If I

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Do you VODO? It stands for Volunteer Donation, and is a new way of sharing work - print or video - beyond traditional distribution. I was hipped to VODO through film producer Ted Hope's website called truly free film. I checked out its website, made a small donation to the cause, and was invited to share my work as well.Now my own THAW can be viewed on VODO. (You stalwart fans may be tiring of

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This is a reminder to stop everything and check out the First Annual UMove Online Videodance Festival (trailer below) produced by fellow dance film-makers Anna Brady Nuse and Kriota Willberg and me. For the month of October the festival will be viewable at Move the Frame.  We'll kick things off with a launch party in NYC featuring a unique selection of videos from the festival, live performance

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September 10-13 I attended a Dance for the Camera Workshop with award-winning Canadian filmmaker Laura Taler at the University of Utah, where two of my short films showed.  Laura was inspiring and encouraging - and proposed a wham bang production schedule : 2 hours to plan, 2 hours to shoot, and 2 hours to edit.  My collaborators were Ebrahim Ghaeini, a freshman in the film department,  and Erin

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"So, from our first rehearsals at The Egg to  the premiere at Fruitlands, from The Yard to the Natural Bridge, from rainy June to cool September, inspired by Joseph Wheelwright's Oracle and the Shakers, joined by other people's daughters and now our own, this third - and final! - adaptation of COME ROUND RIGHT settles here, in my home place."

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No, silly, not snow flurries!I'm referring to all the activity going on in September. Here's the skinny:2 more live performances of COME ROUND RIGHT in Massachusetts.(see "Short and Sweet" post below for details and links)A five-minute video excerpt of COME ROUND RIGHT as premiered at Fruitlands earlier this summer can be seen on line at DanceMedia.com. If you can't make the live shows, click

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The good news is: you readers do respond when I suggest you check out updates on this blogspot. I can tell because a week after I send one of my email reminders, the blog hit counter goes up by about the same number as the people in my email list...The bad news is: I have spoiled you!  I heard from several friends that they were clicking and clicking on the still photo of the piece I made in

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Rather than a long narrative of recent activities, here are just the headlines, with links to relevant sites for more info.Video Dance: In late June THAW won a weekly online video dance contest - on the theme of "summer or winter".  Click here to go see it - again! - and to read the accompanying appreciation of the work written by the folks at Movement Media.Above is a still from the Dance on

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Internet TV, that is. Click here to see it - preceded by ads for Bank of America and L'Oreal - now!And keep reading below for more video viewing...

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I've prepared a little something to be posted while I'm busy at a dance for the camera workshop in Canada June 1-10.  Click on About Marta Renzi at right - or here to see the new Archive of the Month (ok, it's actually every six months, but you get the idea.) If I get a chance, I'll post from the workshop: what I'm learning, maybe even some footage from it?Meanwhile, I have a favor to ask.  I've

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Come see David Strathairn and a motley cast of Project Co. irregularsdance in autumnal gloryat the Hoboken INTERNATIONAL Film Festival.It's Marta Renzi's INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK,showing on the big screen! Saturday, May 30th at 4:00Cedar Lane Cinemas, 503 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, New Jersey$9 gets you into an afternoon of shorts, including INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK.From NYC Port Authority, the

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Three chances to see Renzi dances - live and on video - in the coming month. Be sure to scroll down for all 3.I'M NOT VERY PRETTY, created in 1986 as part of SOFT SELL, will be performed by a 17-year-old from Warwick, New York. Rachel Sander has created a solo show as part of her graduation from high school and asked me to make a dance for her.  She learned the 4-minute dance from a DVD, and we

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COTTONWOOD, BAMBOO & POISON IVY is screening in the Rockland Short Film Festival on Wednesday, May 13th at 8:30 at Riverspace in Nyack.  This is the second video I've created from dancing first presented live at the annual festival at Gaga Arts & Industrial Complex, and it's the 4th consecutive year my video work has been shown with other Rockland artists. Come at 6:00 to see local student films.

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INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK is an official selection of the Hoboken International Film Festival which runs from May 29 to June 4th.  CHEKHOV will be showing on Saturday May 30th at 4:00 at the Cedar Lane Cinemas in Teaneck, New Jersey.  more info

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It's almost summertime, traditionally for me a time for a site-specific something or other. Last summer it was a magical time at The Yard, making Cartoon Love.  After one of our performances there, a new fan named Bob Eiland started chatting with me about how great it would be to bring some Renzi dancing to the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massaschusetts. Poor guy, his innocent invitation has

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I'm happy to report that Considering an Exhibition screened  last month at Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Boulder Colorado and will be shown in May at Il Coreografo Elettronico in Naples.  Since as you read this, those options may be distant in time and geography, you can view it right now via YouTube.  Speaking of the distant past, I didn't get to attend last fall's showing of Incident

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Wine's in the fridge, corkscrew is in the second drawer down, PayPal is the button at right. Thanks to the recent generous contributions of Dave Marsh, Elena Tajo, and David White I've gotten this far.  Want to get me a little farther? It's tax-deductible - and it's a new tax year!And, by the way, thanks to all of you for comments on Cold Spell last month, new and improved thanks to your input! 

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A friend recently asked me if this is a blog or a website. I guess the answer is a little of both. It actually evolved from a newsletter I used to mail out a couple of times a year, reporting on where I'd been, and trying to make sense of where I was headed.The tone of this electronic version is similarly somewhere between self-promotion and artistic travelogue. In this format, I now have the

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A little PINK to snap you out of your holiday doldrums...Two new posts below, plus a reminder to poke around.  To view the new archive, click on "About Marta Renzi" at right.  (And when you get there, notice the neat new FILMOGRAPHY which has links to videos of almost all the recent oeuvre.)

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'Tis the season to discuss how we survive in these hard times.  As 2008 comes to a close, I look back on the three projects I made this year and try to assess their cost and their value.  The former is easier to assess.  Here's what it cost (with no hourly wage or fee for the director/editor: me)CONSIDERING AN EXHIBITION 5-minute video made in a friend's atticPrice tag   $2500COTTONWOOD, BAMBOO &

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And then there are other ways to give.For a long time, I have been largely at a remove from the dance community. Now I'm back in action, working on two projects.Burt Supree was a dance critic for the VILLAGE VOICE for many years, whose writing supported the dance community and the very idea of making dances. I've been working with a wonderful group of people who were touched by Burt to create a

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Up for an adventure? Click here Dancemedia.comYou'll see a quartet we made at The Yard earlier this year - and get a sneak preview of a cut from Steve Elson's new CD, "Mott and Broome."Register - vote - comment.Come on, you're the people who elected Barack Obama!

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A new color, access to some other websites, a link to purchasing videos...this old dog is learning a few new tricks! Feel free to use the DONATE button at right to send a tax-deductible contribution to And Dancers, Inc. before the end-of-2008 fund-raising onslaught.If you're in a nostalgic frame of mind, archives of past postings can be found at the bottom of the page. Be sure to poke around -

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This month 4 of my videodances are showing on 2 coasts and 3 countries:THAWPerformance Seminar:Screen Dance SeriesManhattanville CollegePurchase, New YorkNovember 12INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEKPoppy Jasper Film FestivalMorgan Hill, CaliforniaNovember 14-16COTTONWOOD, BAMBOO AND POISON IVYFRAME 7th EditionPorto, PortugalNovember 13-18TEXAS PLATESMADance Screen SalonToronto, OntarioNovember 27

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...when I put YOU LITTLE WILD HEART in the DVD player and saw what you had done, I was both mesmerized and transported...I loved, loved, loved seeing such beauty in such an industrial, gritty setting. You helped me see the music - your dancers' beautiful bodies and movements helped me experience something new about that old time.And with MOUNTAINVIEW...I related a lot more to the late-80's

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Many thanks to those of you who, prompted by my email reminders, manage to navigate to this site, and take time to view the postage-stamp-sized videos I post here. I am proud to announce that INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK has been accepted in another film festival - Poppy Jasper in California - and will screen there more or less in life-size!Acquiring permission to use some of the wonderful music

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Regular visitors to this site are aware that these days there is no "repertory" of live dances performed by the "Marta Renzi Company". But, honored to be invited by the legendary Martha Myers to be part of an evening on Martha's Vineyard called "Through the Eyes of a Choreographer", I felt that just projecting a recent videodance wouldn't do.So, with only 4 days of rehearsal to create a dance

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Great Performances? Well, it sports fabulous costumes, is performed to classical music, skews plenty of ballet steps, and is shot by a Japanese national television station - with a little Shakespeare thrown in! If it all sounds too elite for you, not to worry: it's just CADENZA CARTOONS, performed at Central Park Summerstage in 1989.With mis-matched fantasy costumes from the Costume Collection,

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INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK is showing this week in Naples, Italy, as part of the 15th edition of a dance/film festival called Il Coreogafo Elettronico.I toyed with the idea of attending...but decided to spend my time and money on MORE PROJECTS instead of airfare.If you happen to be in Naples, or know anyone there, spread the word.And if you want a screening in the privacy of your air-conditioned

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LIVE & LOCAL:(and very soon!)the 2nd annual appearance ofMarta Renzi & The Project Co.at Gaga.with:Mica Bernas, Chris Daftsios,Alberto Denis, Caitlin Granados,Michael Granados, Chisa Hidaka,Alethea Pace and Robert SorrentinoSaturday (only) June 7th 1-4.Please come tour the grounds, visit the galleries and studios, and watch some wonderful - mostly improvised - dancing in the greenest part of

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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! BRICKTOWN has been selected to show in two film festivals this month: Wednesday, May 14 at 8:30 at Riverspace in Nyack as part of the Rockland Short Film Festival and Saturday, May 10th in "Dancing Outside of the Box" as part of the Dogwood Festival of Fine arts in Dowagiac, Michigan. BRICKTOWN was designed for and shot at the Gaga Arts Festival

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Since it was performed at Central Park Summerstage in 2005, you could argue that REUNION is a not-so-dusty Archive of the Month. But it was stitched together from dances made as long ago as 25 years, so it qualifies. It also boasts an all-star cast of past and current veterans, as well as special guests Arthur Aviles, Doug Elkins, Deborah Jowitt and Vicky Shick.Obviously, REUNION was not

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A few of you saw this one up already...a boy, a girl and a convertible, racing the sunset...then it was down, pending permission.And now - a fan's dream come true - it's back up, both here and on Patti Scialfa's website. It's part of a long story I promise to write about soon. But meanwhile, check it out. Or go to Patti Scialfa's official site and hear more of and about her moving and soulful

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A teaser/trailer for the recently completed 25-minute dance video we shot last fall. INCIDENT AT CHEKHOV CREEK is just now being submitted to film festivals. Maybe in my next posting I'll give you a little insight into the history of these projects - through my eyes - from inception to completion. And, with any luck, "completion" should include some screenings of the finished piece. But don't

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Can you believe I'm participating in a performance about a week from now??!! Secretly, I've been sneaking back to dance class about once a week with the wonderful Alexandra Bellar at Dance New Amsterdam - for the first time in 10 years - and have been enjoying sweating with a posse. (NB: Late that same month...I recommend another modern teacher at DNA: Oliver Steele, whose classes make me want

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"Someday we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny." Bruce SpringsteenThanks for the comments, donations and suggestions in response to the last blogalert. Now that you've proved that you love me, I'm more than ever willing to show you the real - old - me, in this archive from almost 25 years ago.It was in an era when I made dances about making

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Here, finally, is one of the two projects I started this past summer at Dance for the Camera (at Media Net in Victoria, British Columbia - "video camp".) This 3-minute study was made with no rehearsal, two cameras and the lovely Monica Campbell. Those who know me well won't be surprised to see a video celebration of a woman's evening bath...IS there such thing as a room of one's own?I'm sharing

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Dear Collaborators -Yes, I miss YOU too!Check out my blogspot (the poor man's website) for a quick slide show I made of Gary Tacon's still photographs of our November shoothttp://martarenzi.blogspot.comI'm just getting the hang of my new Mac, but I'll begin editing our footage soon. I hope to have my own little film festival - some rough version of CHEKHOV and the newly-finished BRICKTOWN -

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(Because this is a hard sell, you'll get the pitch first, followed by the rationale.)The Pitch: For any contribution of $25 or more, you will receive a handsome box of greeting cards, with a dozen color images from past and future dance videos: BRICKTOWN, CHEKHOV, THE WELCOME TABLE, TENDERNESS, and PORCH STORIES. (Click on the button at the end of this post to preview these images drawn from 2

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OK, ok, Archive of the Season, if not of the month. Apologies for not having posted the second in this series sooner. I was kind of busy creating new work...new being a relative concept, from an archivist's point of view.THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER, is of slightly more recent vintage than the 1986 SOFT SELL. It was created in 1995 as part of an ongoing collaboration with Slovak dance artist Anna

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Here is the second project I shot in Canada last summer, and finished editing only recently. It was shot by Alejandro Valbuena, racing the setting sun on the last day of the workshop, with two wonderful Canadian dancers, Jane Osborne and Matthew Waldie. A convertible. Sunset. A man and a woman. I had a hard time finding music I thought would suit it - sexy but not too pop, female but not too

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Months ago, an image of swans from a recent videodance - THAW - was posted here, but I haven't made the video itself available on the blog yet. Now you have two chances to see it:1. Log on to www.digifestival.nettake a look at some of the entries in this online international festival, and see if THAW doesn't hold up pretty well in the Movies category. If you like what you see, go ahead and

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I recently transferred several ancient works to DVD, to preserve them for posterity. In case we're not around when posterity comes, rather than leave them in a box in my attic, I thought I'd also occasionally post them here. Relic of the Month of is SOFT SELL, which was made while I was pregnant with my son Amos, who turned 21 in August.To read more and view SOFT SELL click here...

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In the past 3 years (of the 30 that I've been a choreographer) my focus has been making videos that include some element of dance. The short dances performed by 10 dancers in RED at Gaga Arts Festival a month ago were a great hit with the live audience. But the idea to develop those site-specific bits was primarily an excuse to shoot some footage of a wonderful location. Happily, the long hours

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Remember PROM NIGHT?In January I wrote about Marta Miller and Kathy Wildberger,"glamorous gypsies in fur", presenting a sketch for PROM NIGHT AT CHEKHOV HIGH at the Cool New York 2007 Dance Festival. Months later, here's a slide show of some images from their duet,soon to be part of a minor motion picture, shot later this fall. Grab the popcorn and have a seat! Photos by Yi-Chun Wu.

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MY DOUBLE LIFEI call them "my families". The heads of household range from a teenage mom who got her GED just as her daughter turned two, to a hard-working couple working at different fast food chains, to a stay-at-home mother of one. I see each of them twice a week for only about half an hour. But because we meet in their homes - and because the visits commence when a child turns two, it's a

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REJECTIONThat dirty word. After more than 3 decades of putting myself out there, I'm an expert in the fine gradations of the R-word. Now check this out. Months after receiving word that PORCH STORIES was NOT chosen for a festival called A FLICKERING IMAGE, I received the following....(cont.)To read entire article on THE R WORD: CLICK HERE

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Sans Souci is a niche film festival specializing in dance cinema, incorporating live performance, and including museum installations. This year showing the works of artists from Canada, France, Spain, and all over the US.

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Those of you who have read my (printed) newsletters over the past several years will be wondering if that chatty, introspective, self-deprecating voice will appear on the blog. Here is an exchange of emails between Marta Renzi (choreographer and professional Doubting Thomas) and Marta Jo Miller (long-time friend, able assistant, confessor) during the making of NOT ABOUT PARIS.....(cont.)TO Read

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an excerpt from PORCH STORIES,a film by Marta Renzi. Joe Manning Interviews Marta about PORCH STORIES

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During a fall residency at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, I created an evening-length dance/theater piece, made in collaboration with 6 student choreographers.Entitled NOT ABOUT PARIS HILTON, it was premiered October 27-28th at the small theater at the '62 Center for Theater & Dance. It would have been impossible to pull off in such a short time without the able assistance of

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A fantasy in light and dark with a runaway bride...waiting.Choreography & Direction: Marta Renzi.Featuring Tina Vasquez

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The finale of THE WELCOME TABLE. Music by Dave Bass.

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