Screener for Is This Art? - Volume 1: Elevate and re-define Contemporary Dance DVD available online from http://www.artfilms.com.au.

Blurring the boundaries between the fine and applied arts.

Is This Art? is a fascinating new 12 Volume DVD series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art music and sound.

Each episode presents a series of interviews with contemporary artists intercut with images and recent footage of their work. The interviews provide insight to why, how and for whom these artists create their work, and where their passion and artistic inquiries originate from. Where are the boundaries between science, technology, politics, popular culture and art? Viewers are challenged with the question while witnessing the freeflow of imagination.

VOLUME 1

LUCY GUERIN
Born and graduated in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere OConnor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner. Now based in Melbourne, Guerin has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Ros Warby, Woo Co (Denmark), Ricochet (UK) Dance Works Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Mikhail Baryshnikovs White Oak Dance Project (USA) among others. Her works have toured throughout Europe including France, Holland, UK, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and Switzerland, and the US including New York, Portland, Miami, Seattle, Houston, and Durham. Guerin has received the Prix dauteur (France), a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award), the 2000 Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award for an individual, and a Green Room Award (Victorian Arts Centre).

GIDEON OBARZANEK
Melbourne-based Chunky Move was founded by artistic director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995 and has been the State of Victorias flagship contemporary dance company since 1998. Chunky Moves work constantly seeks to redefine contemporary dance within an ever evolving Australian culture. Gideon Obarzanek studied at the Australian Ballet School and danced with the Queensland Ballet and the Sydney Dance Company. His international choreographic credits include commissions for Graz Opera Ballet (Austria), Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Israel), Nederlands Dans Theater (Holland), and the Repertory Dance Theatre (USA).

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