1. Media Projects

  2. Chromatic Revelry
  3. Ferry
  4. IcarusCar
  5. Improv
  6. Legoland
  7. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  8. Portal: World of Awe
  9. Pothead
  10. Do Not Call it Fixity

  1. Curation

  2. ContainR

  1. Documentaries

  2. Nutcracker Nation
  3. Dancing Las Vegas
  4. Limón: Moving into the Future
  5. American Aloha

    Contact Info

    Evann Siebens

    778.960.8240
    evann at evannsiebens dot com

    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

Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions
2011
  • HotShoe Gallery, London, UK. With collaborator Keith H Doyle. IcarusCar
  • The Dance Centre, Vancouver, Canada. Presented by the plastic orchid factory. chromatic revelry
2010
  • Vivarium Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. chromatic revelry
2009
  • The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada. With collaborator Keith H Doyle. IcarusCar
  • Vivarium Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. With collaborator Keith H Doyle. IcarusCar
2008
  • The Point Gallery, Salt Spring Island, Canada. With collaborator Keith H Doyle. IcarusCar
Residencies
2011
  • ACME Studios, International Artist Residency, London, UK.
2008
  • National Film Board, Vancouver, Canada.
2007
  • Banff New Media Institute, Liminal Screen, Banff, Canada.
2006
  • Banff New Media Institute Co-Production, Banff, Canada.
  • Dance Theater Workshop ARM Media Lab Fellowship, New York, USA.
2004
  • Ballett Frankfurt Media Arts Residency, Frankfurt, Germany.
2000
  • NIPAD (National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance) Fellowship, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
Select Bibliography
  • Contemporary Arts Review ‘Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art’. 3/25/2007
  • Amdoc News ‘Emerging Filmmakers given powerful voice’. 10/29/2006
  • Leonardo Digital Reviews ‘Interactive Futures’ by Dene Grigar. 3/1/2005
  • The New York Times ‘A Video Game with Awe as its Quest’ by Elizabeth Bard. 21/3/2004
  • The Korea Herald ‘Film Festivals at the Speed of Light’ by Andrew Petty. 4/23/2004
  • San Francisco Chronicle ‘Kunst-Stoff Mixes Film’ by Rachel Howard. 5/15/2004
  • The Los Angeles Times ‘ A Film Fest Propelled by Movement’ by Lewis Segal. 5/30/2004
  • The Village Voice ‘New York Dances’ by Deborah Jowitt. 6/30/2004
  • ExploreDance.com ‘Limón Moving into the Future’ by Robert Abrams. 7/1/2004
  • Honolulu Star ‘Film Exhibits Hula’s Wide Appeal’ by Tim Ryan. 8/4/2003
  • Honolulu Advertiser ‘Hula Beyond the Islands’ by Yun Choi. 7/8/2003
  • Dance on Camera Journal ‘image/Word.not_a_pipe=’ by Maria Aoftsi. 3/2003
  • Turbulence.org/interviews ‘Interview about Portal: a net.dance’ by Helen Thorington. 22/2/2003
  • The Village Voice ‘ Dancers Make Movies’ by Elizabeth Zimmer. 4/23/2003
  • The Village Voice ‘The Body Artists’ by Elizabeth Zimmer. 1/9/2002
Publications
  • capturenet.org.uk UK based dance media commissioning body. Published IMPROV co-authored with Keith H Doyle. Portland Green, Editor, 2007.
  • Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. Essay, ‘Dancing with the Camera: The Dance Cinematographer.’ Judy Mitoma, Elizabeth Zimmer, Editors. Routledge Press, 2002.
  • Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos. Introductory Essay, ‘Choreography for Camera: A Historical Perspective.’ Louise Spain, Editor. Neal-Schuman Publisher, 1998.
Grants & Awards
2005
  • Indian Cultural Council Award: Travel Grant to India for DanzLenz Festival, Delhi, India.
  • Mediamatic: Travel Grant to The Netherlands to lecture and present at Cinedans, Amsterdam.
  • NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Grant to direct documentary Nutcracker Nation
2004
  • Golden Cine Television Award. Best documentary for American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i.
  • FILE: 04 Media Festival. 1st Place for PORTAL Best website. Buenos Aires, Brazil.
  • FILE: 04 Media Festival. 2nd Place for image/Word.not_a_pipe= Best experimental film. Brazil.
  • Moscow International Film Festival. 3rd Prize Cinema for image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • American Dance Festival, Durham, USA Certificate of Recognition for image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Coreografo Eletronico, Naples, Italy. Nomination for best dancefilm Limón Moving into the Future
  • Kaufmann Foundation Grant to complete Limón: Moving into the Future
2003
  • Packard Foundation Grant to produce Limón: Moving into the Future
2002
  • Creative Excellence Award: ABC Television The Breach
  • ITVS (Independent TV Service) Award to direct American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • AMDOC (American Documentary) Grant to direct American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
2001
  • PIC (Pacific Islanders in Communications) Grant to direct American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
2000
  • NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Grant to direct American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Grant American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
1999
  • Canada Council Media Artist Travel Grant: Presentation Grant to attend IMZ film festival
  • $100 Film Festival: 2nd Place, Calgary, Canada. POTHEAD
  • Canadian International Film Festival: 2nd Place, Vancouver, Canada. POTHEAD
1998
  • NIPAD (National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance) grant to direct Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • SABAC Award: Grand Prix International Video Danse, Stockholm, Sweden. do not call it fixity…
  • Canadian International Film Festival: 3rd Place, Vancouver, Canada. do not call it fixity…
Education
1996
  • New York University, New York, USA
  • Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude. Film Production with a minor in Philosophy. Founders Award* for Academic Excellence. Student Speaker for Convocation. NYU Scholar.
1990
  • The National Ballet School of Canada, Toronto, Canada
  • Graduate with Honours. Apprentice with the National Ballet of Canada.
1988
  • The Royal Ballet School, London, England
  • White Lodge Lower School & Upper School. ‘O’ & ‘A’ Levels. Barbara Fewster award.
Dance
1998-04
  • Kunst-Stoff Dance Theatre. San Francisco. Director: Yannis Adoniou. Guest company dancer.
1998-01
  • Danzaisa. New York. Director: Gabri Christa. Company dancer, media artist.
1990-92
  • Bonn Ballet. Bonn, Germany. Director: Youri Vamos. Soloist & Corps de Ballet dancer.
  • National Ballet of Canada. Toronto, Canada. Director: Reid Anderson. Apprentice ballet dancer.
Selected Group Screenings/Exhibitions
2011
  • American Dance Festival, International Screendance Festival, North Carolina, USA. chromatic revelry
2009
  • P2p outdoor art videos: Upgrade! Paris & Skopje, Macedonia. IMPROV
2008
  • LOIKKA dance film festival, Helsinki, Finland. PORTAL
  • MAXXI: National Museum of 21st century arts, Rome, Italy. PORTAL
2007
  • Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. With collaborator Keith H Doyle. IMPROV
  • Mediated Bodies: Media Technologies in Dance, Dublin, Ireland. IMPROV, image/Word.not_a_pipe=, RAMA
  • Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Media Museum, Moscow, Russia. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • P2p outdoor art videos: Upgrade! Vancouver, Belgrade & Edinburgh. IMPROV
  • DanceLenz Indian Film Festival, Delhi, India. RAMA
2006
  • Screendance: The State of the Art, American Dance Festival, Durham, USA. IMPROV
  • Cinedans – Interactive Dance Film @ Mediamatic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IMPROV
  • Goethe Institute & Deutsches Tanz Archive, Krakow, Poland. IMPROV
  • Dance Theater Workshop, CAPTURED: Gallery Screening, New York, New York. IMPROV
  • Monkey Town Screening, Brooklyn, New York. IMPROV
  • DanceLenz Indian Film Festival, Delhi, India. IMPROV
2005
  • CYNETart_05nature, Dresden, Germany. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • IMZ Dance Screen, Brighton, England. IMPROV
  • Dance Theater Workshop, ARM Lab Public Screening, New York, USA. IMPROV
  • Interactive Futures, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
2004
  • PBS ‘Encore’ USA & Canada broadcast on POV or ‘Point of View’ – documentary American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i (Director & Co-producer of documentary on Hula & Hawai’i)
  • PBS broadcast on WNET/Thirteen New York ‘Reel New York’ Limón: Moving into the Future
  • NPS: Dutch National Public Television, The Netherlands. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • FILE:04 Festival, Buenos Aires, Brazil. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • SENEF: Seoul net and Film Festival, Seoul, Korea. image/Word.not_a_pipe= & PORTAL
  • Napolidanza – Il Coreografo Elettronico, Napoli, Italy. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Kinodance – St. Petersberg Dancefilm Festival, St. Petersberg, Russia. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • FIVU 2004 – Body, Image, Movement, Montevideo, Uruguay. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • SZIGET Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • American Dance Festival, Durham, USA. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Redcat Theater, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, USA. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Hammer Museum, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, USA. Limón Moving into the Future
  • Dance Theatre Workshop – Captured, New York, USA. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Motion Pictures: Film at the Prince, Philadelphia, USA. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • CYNETart_04areale, Dresden, Germany. PORTAL
  • Israel Video Zone Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel. PORTAL
  • New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada. PORTAL
  • Netizens new media exhibition, Rome, Italy. PORTAL
  • Moscow International Film Festival – Conversion Art, Moscow, Russia. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
2003
  • PBS national broadcast on POV American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i Over 3.5 million viewers
  • VideoDansa Barcelona 9A Mostra, Barcelona, Spain. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Dance on Camera Festival, New York, USA. image/Word.not_a_pipe=
  • Smithsonian Institute, Festival of the American Indian, Washington, DC, USA. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • Hawai’i Film Festival, Honolulu, Hawai’i. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • Pacifika: The New York Hawaiian Film Festival, New York, USA. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
  • Holland Dance Festival, The Hague, Netherlands Limón Moving into the Future
2002
  • Monaco Dance Forum, Monte Carlo, Monaco. PORTAL, The Breach
  • Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, USA. The Breach
2000
  • MOMA: Museum of Modern Art. DocLab Screening, New York, USA. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
1999
  • Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, USA. POTHEAD
  • Dance Screen 99, Cologne, Germany. POTHEAD
  • Media Dance International Grand Prix Carina Ari, Paris, France. POTHEAD
  • Il Choreografo Elettronico, Naples, Italy. POTHEAD
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA. POTHEAD
  • Moving Pictures Film Festival of Dance on Film, Toronto, Canada. POTHEAD
  • Prairie Tales: Canadian Media Tour of Western Canadian Artists. POTHEAD
1997
  • KUNSTKANAAL: Dutch Arts Cable Network, The Netherlands. do not call it fixity…
  • Centre Georges Pompidou: Videodanse Retrospective. Paris, France. do not call it fixity…
  • Dance Screen, Lyon, France. do not call it fixity…
  • Vi Mostra Video Dansa Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. do not call it fixity…
  • Dance on Camera Festival, New York, USA. do not call it fixity…
  • Moving Pictures Film Festival of Dance on Film, Toronto, Canada. do not call it fixity…
  • Mostra de Video Independent, Barcelona, Spain. do not call it fixity…
  • Mondial de la Video, Brussels, Belgium. do not call it fixity…
  • $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Canada. do not call it fixity…
  • Cine(E) Poetry Festival, San Francisco, USA. do not call it fixity…
Professional Service
2011-2012
  • The Western Front. Vancouver, Canada. Board Member.
2008-2010
  • containR – Cultural Olympiad. Artistic Director & Curator for film festival of dance and performance films screened in recycled shipping containers. Co-presented by VANOC for 2009 Cultural Olympiad.
2007
  • Workshop teacher for dance cinematography at Mediated Bodies, Dublin, Ireland.
2006
  • Lecturer and curator for DanzLenz: Dance Film in India, Delhi, India.
  • Public Lecture on Dance and Media. Mediamatic at Cinedans, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Public Lecture and Presenter. Screendance: State of the Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2005
  • Jury member for American Dance Festival: Screendance, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2004
  • Jury member for Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film, Toronto, Canada.
  • Panelist for Dance Critics Association Annual Meeting. Dancefilm Artist. Philadelphia, USA.
2000-02
  • Teacher of Dance Cinematography at American Ballet Theatre School. New York, USA.
1999
  • Panelist at IMZ Dance Screen, Cologne, Germany.
1997-02
  • Board Member of Dance Films Association, New York, USA.
1995-97
  • Jury Member for Dance on Camera Festival, New York, USA.