Selection: Ida Hiršenfelder
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2011
Duration: 52′ 38”

The dance video as a genre of video art was very strongly present in Slovene cultural environment in the 90s when dancers e.g En-Knap and video artists e.g. Sašo Podgoršek or Ema Kugler had created some of the most known collaborations between performance and visual arts. In the 21. Century it seems that this collaborations had somewhat disappeared from video production. We have examined this assumption with an overview of video production of the past decade and found that dance video production of this period can be viewed with the following four very different approaches:

• Dance video that is made as an artistic (video) interpretation of an existing dance performance (Ana Čigon: Timelessness). It is also possible that such a performes would be specifically designed for video and not for the live audience (Apolonija Šušteršič: Entrance de Singel).

 

• Dance video would be the final product of the performance initiated by video artist him/herself. It could be a solo performance for one dancer (Maja Slavec: Revaluation; Evelin Stermitz: Inside the Outside) or a more ambitious dance project where the artist would play the role of a theatre director (Neven Korda: Echoes).

 

• Dance video in which the artist mixes found footages of a dance performance that are emphasised by the rhythm of music in connection to the rhythm of video picture (Maja Smrekar: Repeating Coincidence; Zemira Alajbegović: Vortex).

 

• Dance video where the video artist him/herself acts as an amateur dancer (Ana Čigon: One More Kick; Sašo Vrabič: Santa).

 

From the indicated four approaches we are able to conclude that in comparison to the video of the 90s with predominant large dance and video production we are speaking about gradual “intimising” of the dance video.

Ana Čigon, Timelessness, 20′
Ana Čigon, 2008

Apolonija Šušteršič, Kees van Zelst, Entrance de Singel, 5′ 50”
Apolonija Šušteršič, Kees van Zelst, 1997

Maja Slavec, Revaluation (short version), 5′
Maja Slavec, 2008

Evelin Stermitz, Inside the Outside, 5′ 33”
Evelin Stermitz, 2006

Neven Korda, Echoes, 5′
Aksioma – Zavod za sodobno umetnost, Ljubljana, 2009

Maja Smrekar, Repeating Coincidence, 3′ 42”
Maja Smrekar, 2009

Zemira Alajbegović, Vortex, 4′ 5”
TV Slovenija, 2000

Ana Čigon, One More Kick, 4′ 35”
Ana Čigon, 2009

Sašo Vrabič, Santa (short version), 3′ 32”
Sašo Vrabič, 2001