REGARDS HYBRIDES Launch New Web Site And Review Of The First Edition Of November's International Forum

A few days before International Dance Day, Montreal-based company Mandoline Hybride is happy to unveil the new web site of REGARDS HYBRIDES, an online platform that gathers resources aiming at facilitating the development of screendance, and to have a look back at the first edition of Regards Hybrides' International Forum held in November 2017 at Tangente. (Espace Danse - WILDER).

Founded in mai 2012 as an extension of company Mandoline Hybride, REGARDS HYBRIDES' mandate is to facilitate the articulation and development of artistic practices in which dance and cinema are intertwined. Its web platform collects and share existing resources in screendance. The biennale project Regards Hybrides : An International Forum launched in 2017 is the core-event of REGARDS HYBRIDES. Produced by Mandoline Hybride, in collaboration with Tangente, the event is dedicated to the interaction between dance and cinema at a time of high interest for digital and new technologies, gathering International Artists and researchers. REGARDS HYBRIDES also offers professional and student workshops, as well as mentoring for artists, presenters and other cultural workers in order to facilitate the emerging of new initiatives in this hybrid field. Over the past six years, the project became a real incubator for diverse initiatives and has made its mark in the artistic milieu as a reference for research, creation, curation and pedagogy in screendance. Its recognition si spreading not only in Quebec, but also internationally, as one of the few, if not the only, francophone initiative in of that sort.

NEW WEB SITE : RESOURCES ET SERVICES
The new web site of REGARDS HYBRIDES has several aims:
1) News : announce activities upcoming held by REGARDS HYBRIDES (workshops, screenings, gatherings, conferences, etc.) and relays information about local and international collaborators;
2) Resources : list of screendance festivals in the world, edited annually and updated gradually + list of web sites and publications (online or printed) specialized in that field;
3) Services : list of services "à la carte" offered to artists and other professionals (workshops, mentoring, curation);
4) International Forum : announcement of each new edition and complete documentation.

OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Along with over 15 artists and international specialists, artist and curator Priscilla Guy has offered an eclectic program composed of over 35 films, 2 multidisciplinary performances, 1 video installation, 6 panels and round tables and 1 collective workshop. Today, REGARDS HYBRIDES releases the full bilingual video documentation (with subtitles) of the four major conferences held during the event, followed by discussions with the public :

Frontières entre les corps: incarcération, transmission et performance
Boundaries Between Bodies: Incarceration, Transmission and Performance

Reggie Daniels, Amie Dowling & Austin Forbord (USA / É-U)

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Filmé et capturé : la danse de rue des quartiers à l'écran

Shot and Captured: Streetdance from Hood to Screen

Naomi Macalalad Bragin (USA / É-U)

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Création partagée en milieu carcéral

Shared creation in prison

Camille Auburtin (FR)

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Potentialités créatives et art relationnel : le travail du festival itinérant de Agite Y Sirva

Creative potentialities and relational art: the work of Agite y Sirva Screendance Touring Festival

Paulina Ruiz Carballido (FR-MX) & Ximena Monroy (MX)

A SCREENDANCE BIENNALE IN MONTRÉAL

Following the success of the first edition of the International Forum, Mandoline Hybride and Tangente has engaged in making it a biennale. Thus, it is in the fall of 2019 that will be held the second edition of this thrilling event, touching upon current preoccupations about the intersection of dance and cinema, bodies and cameras.

SPONSORS OF THE FIRST EDITION: Tangente, Moving Image Research Laboratory de McGill (MIRL), La danse sur les routes du Québec, Circuit-Est, Agora de la danse, OFQJ, Consulat Général d'Italie

WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF: Conseil des arts du Canada (CAC), Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)

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