FF for DCW: Gabri Christa

04/05/23 • 21 min

In this episode, we are highlighting Gabri Christa, a core figure and throughline of Dance Camera West’s events we attended earlier this season.

“Gabri Christa makes work for stage, screen and everything in between. She hails from the Dutch Caribbean and lives in NYC. Christa is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College of Columbia University, where she teaches Screendance, Composition, Dance in Film lecture course, Contemporary Caribbean Dance and Yoga. She also directs the Movement Lab at Barnard and is the founding director of the social justice screendance festival Moving Body- Moving Image.

Gabri Christa's years of filmmaking, choreographing and teaching, have created a list of filmmakers who have studied and created work with her. A dedicated educator, her focus is on encouraging using what you have, uncovering and trusting your own vision, without letting need for high end equipment stand in your way.”
At DCW, Gabri offered a workshop on single-shot filmmaking that covered important fundamentals of making your creative visions a reality, no matter what your chosen format. Enjoy some clips from the workshop in this episode!

An evening was dedicated to highlighting selected works and she was presented with a much-deserved career achievement award from Dance Camera West. Congratulations!

Thank you to Dance Camera West and Kelly Hargraves for inviting Frameform to be part of their 2023 season! We loved attending the festival, highlighting some of your programs, and kicking off our fourth season of the podcast with you.

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Visit Gabri’s website here
Explore Gabri’s films here

Follow on IG @shaolinfilms

Learn more about Moving Body Moving Image Festival here

Follow on IG @movingbodymovingimage

Follow Dance Camera West

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Got a question? Email us at [email protected]

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In this episode, we are highlighting Gabri Christa, a core figure and throughline of Dance Camera West’s events we attended earlier this season.

An evening was dedicated to highlighting selected works and she was presented with a much-deserved career achievement award from Dance Camera West. Congratulations!

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Visit Gabri’s website here
Explore Gabri’s films here

Follow on IG @shaolinfilms

Learn more about Moving Body Moving Image Festival here

Follow on IG @movingbodymovingimage

Follow Dance Camera West

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Got a question? Email us at [email protected]

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Previous Episode

FF for DCW: David Rousséve

David Roussève is a renowned choreographer, writer, director and filmmaker, as well as a longtime board member and juror of Dance Camera West. Along with his many accomplishments as a professor at UCLA, and artistic director of the dance theater company REALITY, David has been a dance film practitioner for decades.

His films, such as Bittersweet & Two Seconds after Laughter, have screened worldwide and he was involved in the UCLA Dance/Media Project, which produced the anthology Envisioning Dance on Film and Video edited by Judy Mitoma.

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Visit David’s website here

Watch the Two Seconds After Laughter Trailer

Follow David Rousséve on IG

Purchase Envisioning Dance on Film and Video edited by Judy Mitoma

Follow Dance Camera West

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Got a question? Email us at [email protected]

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Next Episode

A Conversation with Rogue Dancer

In this episode, we are highlighting the wonderful Jennifer Scully-Thurston, also known as Rogue Dancer. Frameform listeners may already know this friend of the podcast and fellow panelist at last year’s Screendance Symposium. Enjoy this conversation with Scully and Jen Ray including experiences producing festivals online and in person, creative approaches to curation and the pursuit of solutions instead of obstacles.

Jennifer Scully-Thurston (Scully) is a choreographer, dance filmmaker, curator, journalist, and video installation artist. She is founder and director of FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, a monthly thematic on-line event devoted to dance. She has curated and adjudicated for EnCore: Dance on Film, James River Film Festival, and Screen Dance International.
Her dance films have been featured in Core Dance presents... REEL ART (commission), ADF Movies by Movers, Golden Earth Film Award (Best Female Director 2021), Direct Monthly Online Film Festival (Best Female Director 2019), DepicT! (Special Mention), and numerous other prestigious international festivals. She has been an administrator with Grasshorse (character animation studio), HOU & ATL Core Dance (performance company), and NC Arts in Action (in-school public dance program) and is currently Manager of Studio Programs and Community Engagement at the American Dance Festival.
More about Rogue Dancer: We believe dance exists outside the walls of a proscenium stage. It can exist in the wild with mischievous playfulness. A person or organization can create work anywhere that wanders and behaves in unusual ways. The creation and presentation of Dance Film is a great representation of these ideas. We are dancers who have gone off grid to create work in our own way, with our own rules.
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Thank you to Scully for being our first ever Frameform Fan and all of the wonderful support and engagement over the years. We are thrilled to share about your dynamic body of work and we’re looking forward to having Frameform be part of ADF’s Movies by Movers this season!

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Listen to Season 3 Screendance Symposium Panel Episode

Watch and Submit to FilmFest By Rogue Dancer

Become a Rogue Dancer Patreon Supporter

American Dance Festival’s Movies By Movers

Follow on IG @roguedance @amerdancefest

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