A Conversation with: Steven Butler
10/07/20 • 35 min
Last year, we sat down with our friend Steven Butler, Dance & FIlm artist, in Vancouver, BC at Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival, and talked about his dynamic career.
Steven Butler is a multi-talented creative with an open mind, passion for storytelling and an aptitude for intersecting multiple art forms. He began his creative career as a dancer and choreographer with credits including Transformers 2, The Latin Grammy’s, Weeds, Good Morning America and artists including Ludacris, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter, Paulina Rubio, Cheat Codes and Macy Gray. He received a Bachelor of Arts in film from ArtCenter College of Design, graduating with distinction.
His directing credits include music videos for Precarious Records, Ultra Records, and Raid Records. He has also received recognition for his writing, directing, and producing from Slamdance, The Addy Awards, Zooppa, Los Angeles Dance Film Festival, Standard Vision and the Academy of Television & Sciences Blue Ribbon Panel. In addition to his creative work, Steven was a 2018 TEDx Speaker.
By intersecting his creative passions and vast practical experience in varying artistic fields, Steven aims to use art as a means of storytelling that both engages and inspires viewers and participants while simultaneously shaping a progressive and culturally relevant narrative.
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Steven’s Films
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Submissions
Salt Lake City, Utah
Regular deadline - Nov 30
Screenings
Dancinema 2020 : Quaranscreendance
Online
Free
4th Annual Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival
Live Event
Saturday October 10
DM @capitoldcfestival or email [email protected] to get on the list
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Last year, we sat down with our friend Steven Butler, Dance & FIlm artist, in Vancouver, BC at Cascadia Dance and Cinema Festival, and talked about his dynamic career.
Steven Butler is a multi-talented creative with an open mind, passion for storytelling and an aptitude for intersecting multiple art forms. He began his creative career as a dancer and choreographer with credits including Transformers 2, The Latin Grammy’s, Weeds, Good Morning America and artists including Ludacris, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter, Paulina Rubio, Cheat Codes and Macy Gray. He received a Bachelor of Arts in film from ArtCenter College of Design, graduating with distinction.
His directing credits include music videos for Precarious Records, Ultra Records, and Raid Records. He has also received recognition for his writing, directing, and producing from Slamdance, The Addy Awards, Zooppa, Los Angeles Dance Film Festival, Standard Vision and the Academy of Television & Sciences Blue Ribbon Panel. In addition to his creative work, Steven was a 2018 TEDx Speaker.
By intersecting his creative passions and vast practical experience in varying artistic fields, Steven aims to use art as a means of storytelling that both engages and inspires viewers and participants while simultaneously shaping a progressive and culturally relevant narrative.
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Steven’s Films
Follow Steven
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Submissions
Salt Lake City, Utah
Regular deadline - Nov 30
Screenings
Dancinema 2020 : Quaranscreendance
Online
Free
4th Annual Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival
Live Event
Saturday October 10
DM @capitoldcfestival or email [email protected] to get on the list
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Every once in a while, a new social app takes over and becomes massively popular, but something that makes TikTok unique from the others is the focus on dance. Today we’ll talk about what dance on this app looks like, how the global community is connecting on this application, and what are the potential personal and national security risks of using what seems to be an innocent video sharing platform.
With hard-core believers for and against, we’ll consider arguments on both sides. TikTok is one of the fastest growing and perhaps also one of the most controversial, with a tainted history of lawsuits under its former name Musical.ly. Especially with a possible ban in the U.S. and current bans in other countries, we wanted to have this conversation now, and we invited Leslie Scott Zanovich, cultural leader, change-maker, and founder of Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, to join the conversation.
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Follow Leslie @lesliescottsays
and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance @ypadnow
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Documentary Rec: The Social Dilemma
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Announcements
Screening
Dancinema’s online program “Quaranscreendance”
Starting: October 1st / Free
Submissions
Deadline: October 14th
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Pick of the Week
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Viewfinder: Through A Different Lens
Gender identity, expression and dynamics through the lens of dancefilms. We’ve highlighted just a few, but there is much great work being done exploring this intrinsic part of our beings and the ways in which we perceive and interact with the world.
Many traditional dance forms have examples of gender binaries, including costume, posture, movement, choreography, characters, and the roles they play in the dance. While we don’t intend to enforce rigid categories or labels, we discuss labels and ideas such as masculine and feminine, male and female, gender binary and fluidity.
Dance is not just aesthetic or entertainment, it’s social, cultural, political, personal, communal and there is much exciting work being made to explore gender, our experiences in these bodies and how they interact with the world.
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Topic Films
Dir. Eve McConnachie
Chor. Myles Thatcher
Dir. Wayne McGregor
Chor. Jordan James Bridge
Dir. Antoine Panie
Chor. Harold George
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Tremble
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Online
Final Deadline - October 15
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