Evann Siebens

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Evann Siebens

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Bio

Evann Siebens specializes in making media about movement. Her short films, documentaries and media installations have been shown at venues such as Eyebeam, Centre Pompidou, MOMA, The Hammer Museum, Lincoln Centre and on PBS. A former dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the Bonn Ballet in Germany, Evann graduated from NYU. She has attended residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, at UCLA, DTW in New York and with the former Frankfurt Ballett. Now based in Vancouver, Evann recently co-curated and shared artistic direction for ContainR, featured during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Evann recently attended a residency in London, England at Acme and, along with her partner Keith H Doyle exhibited a media installation at the HotShoe Gallery, London. View CV

Chromatic Revelry

2010 / 15:45 mins / Super 8

A series of 10 short films, Chromatic Revelry connects the ordered harmonic scale of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with the chaos of rave culture. Shot on Super 8 film in clubs and at raves from 1998 – 2000, the piece suggests a timelessness to parties, celebration and dance.

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“A synthesis of my experimental dancefilm work with traditional documentary filmmaking, the piece reflects a personal journey, revealing my fascination with street and club movement (and featuring some of my own dancing). Yet by choosing to edit the documentary footage to the preludes and fugues of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations, the films transcend regular 90s rave culture.

The chaos is married to the musical chromatic scale, and stitches it to my older, classical dance training and aesthetic. With its archival Super 8 footage and formal Baroque music, the film becomes trans-historical, lost in time, and commenting on the nature of revelry, celebration and the human form rather than a particular moment in history.”