Movie meets dance

Coco Video builds from the Coco Dance festival, “an annual festival of contemporary dance and choreography that seeks to provide talented local choreographers with a platform for experimental and cutting edge choreography.

Coco also provides a space for dancers to showcase their post-modern forms of dance and innovative mosaics of body motion.” The Coco Dance Cinema will be shown at Little Carib Theatre, corner White and Robert Streets, Woodbrook.

Entitled KidVids and Big Vids a series of short films will be featured on both days running from 4 pm and 6.30 pm respectively on October 22 and 23.

The Coco Dance Festival was founded in 2009 by Sonja Dumas, Dave Williams, Nancy Herrera and Nicole Wesley.

The Coco Video is described as “a weekend of dance cinema, supported by workshops for film-makers, videographers and choreographers __ that celebrate the passion of dance and the intimacy of film.” The organisers said in a release that there’s something for everyone.

“There will be films and workshops for all ages, encouraging choreographers to enter the world of film-making, film-makers to discover and build the skills involved in capturing the rich world of dance and the audience to experience the marriage of the two.” Ana Baer, the Sans Souci Festival’s director, will be in Trinidad to conduct film production workshops that should be of interest to film-makers who incorporate dance into their films and videographers who shoot music videos that incorporate dance.

Two workshops entitled a “Brief History of Video Dance and how to create a Video Dance Piece” and “Creating a site-specific Dance Video” will be held.

“Participants are being asked to bring along a cellphone, or iPad and download a free application called “We Video”. If this is not possible, they can witness and collaborate with those who have a recording and editing device.

Baer will demonstrate and have hands-on exercises for all levels, so everyone is invited, including children.

Participants are asked to come early on the day to register as space is limited and available on a first-come basis.