From the 14th to the 17th of January, the first edition of Chile’s International Videodance Festival FIVC 09 will take place in Valparaiso. Its program will include workshops, visual exhibitions and artwork from different countries. The entrance is free of charge.

Brisa MP, Festival’s Director, defines videodance as ‘an interdisciplinary language that originates where cinema, dance and visual arts cross’. In simple words, videodance is a choreographic creation that is projected in video format, ‘it is as if you wanted to make a movie, but instead of acting through speech, you danced’, Brisa explains. In Chile, this is an incipient discipline, emerged at the end of the nineties and the beginning of the year 2000, that has the body as its central axis and where the choreographer becomes an editor, since editing gives the choreography its last details.

On its first edition, the Festival will carry out intensive videodance workshops, as well as visual exhibitions of national creations and more than 50 artworks from Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Uruguay, and Cuba, among others.

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