DWOW: Third Coast Dance Film Festival
The Third Coast Dance Film Festival, curated by Rosie Trump, Lydia Hance, Ashley Horn, and Rebecca Salazar, celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. The 2014 festival will screen nineteen film shorts, including thirteen international films from Canada, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Spain, and the UK. The program includes three world, six USA, and ten Texas premieres.
Opening night is at DiverseWorks, as part of DiverseWorks on Wednesdays. The Third Coast Dance Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Rosie Trump, and the 2011 and 2012 Festival toured to the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival, outside of Pittsburgh, PA.
Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, educator and Artistic Director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice of dance and video media. Trump’s choreography and films have been shown throughout California, Texas, and the northeastern United States, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Recently, her work was presented at the Prague Fring Festival, Dance New Amerstdam’s Frameworks (New York City), the Toothache Duets (London) and Your Move Dance Festival (New Jersey). Trump holds a MFA in Experimental Dance Choreography from the University of California Riverside, and a BA in dance from Slippery Rock University. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Lydia Hance is the Artist and Executive Director of Frame Dance Productions, founded in 2010. In the past four years her work has been performed at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Miller Outdoor Theater, Jones Plaza, the Pennzoil Place building, the Port Boliver ferry, Big Range Dance Festival, art galleries, claw foot bathtubs, and on screens internationally. Her works have also been performed in San Francisco, Times Square, and Malaysia. In 2012, Hance was named Dance/USA Emerging Leader through acceptance into the Dance/USA Institute of Leadership Training. She has been named a Top 100 Creative by The Houston Press, and Arts + Culture Magazine dubbed her Houston’s “Queen of Curious Locations.” Hance graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University (Dallas) with degrees in Dance Performance and English Literature. She has also trained at the Taylor School, Graham School, Tisch School of the Arts, and Limon Institute.
Ashley Horn is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, costume designer, and artist from the Houston area. She has presented choreography and films at The University of Houston, Big Range Dance Festival, The Texas Weekend of Contemporary Dance, Third Coast Dance Film Festival, The Houston Fringe Festival, and Dance Month at the ERJCC, among other venues. She has created costumes for FrenetiCore, Frame Dance Productions, Sol Y Luna Dance, and her own works. In 2012, Horn was a recipient of an individual artist grant from the Houston Arts Alliance to create an evening length dance film, Wanderland. In 2014 she was a recipient of a Hopewerks residency and the Dancer in Residence grant from Rice University.
Rebecca Salzer is a dancemaker whose works transcend disciplinary labels. Her varied collaborative projects and her work for Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater has been supported by the California Arts Council, the Berkeley Arts Council, Theatre Bay Area, and various private and corporate donors. Her work for the stage has been seen at Links Hall, Chicago; Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Los Angeles; and at the La Jolla Playhouse. Her films and videos have been programmed in national and international film festivals and on PBS-affiliate stations nationwide. Salzer is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and holds a MFA in Dance Theatre from the University of California, San Diego and a BA in Humanities from Yale University. From 2011-14 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI; she joined the faculty at the University of Alabama this fall.