DANCE MOVIE NIGHT facilitates public inquiry and socializing around ongoing polylogues between concert and social dance with other forms of labor. DANCE operates at the intersection of forms of movement MOVIES recapitulate that movement and NIGHT is when we often watch them both together.
In August 2017 we made a Youtube playlist of pop music videos, golden age musical numbers and experimental modern dance. For v1.0 we projected it in 44 North in Stonington and people had fun watching and talking about what they were seeing and hanging out.
In February 2020 we hosted v2.0 at the Chase Emerson Memorial Library in Deer Isle. We set up 7 monitors and added some of our own video works from the last 3-ish years into the mix. We rearranged the video windows such that at any given time there were 13 different videos playing. The original Youtube playlist was always visible. We took requests from audience. We shared unedited footage of us dancing together as well as some edited videos.
In November 2022 we hosted v3.0 in the Library at Mechanics’ Hall in Portland as part of First Friday. We had two projectors and six monitors playing a total of 8 different videos at one time.