WANDERLUST IN SCREENDANCE
WECreate ICE (2016-2019)
WECreate ICE has been developed during a two-week long expedition travelling through Iceland’s extreme landscapes using the Wanderlust approach.
Pictures of the journey, in summer 2015.
WECreate ICE (2016)
Solo performance with multiple video projections
WECreate ICE is a live Solo performance with multiscreen video projection. It combines the physical live body with screendance projection in a black box theatre space.
Sep 9, 2016
Performed an extract as part of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company concert during the Engagement: Symposium for Philosophy of Dance and Performance
Texas State Performing Arts Center - Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre, San Marcos, TX (United States) (int.)
Dance: Heike Salzer
Choreography: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Video Production: WECreate Productions
Video Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Camera and Editing: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Locations and Logistics: Ingi Jensson
Costume Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Sound Editing: Heike Salzer
Light Design: Scott Vandenberg
Production: Heike Salzer, Ana Baer, Ingi Jensson
Poster - Engagement: Symposium of Philosophy and Dance
Sep 16 +17, 2016
Atlas Institute-Center for Media, Arts and Performance, University of Colorado, CO, (United States)
Dance: Heike Salzer
Choreography: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Video Production: WECreate Productions
Video Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Camera and Editing: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Locations and Logistics: Ingi Jensson
Costume Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Sound Editing: Heike Salzer
Light Design: Gary Mc Crumb
Production: Heike Salzer, Ana Baer, Ingi Jensson
A liminal space - programme notes
WECreate ICE
Espacios Latentes / Latent Spaces (2018)
Installation, multiple video projections
October 24 - November 16, 2018
Installed as part of the exhibition, Espacios Latentes - Latent Spaces, an installation of site-specific screendance works by Ana Baer and artistic collaborators curated by Margo Handwerker for TXST Galleries.The exhibit consisted of five works co-directed, co-produced, filmed and edited by Ana Baer.
WECreate ICE was installed with a projection of a single frame full size film and the other was a triptych landscape version, presented on two adjoining walls.
The exhibition was launched with a live performance on 24th October, 2018.
Dance: Heike Salzer
Choreography: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Video Production: WECreate Productions
Camera and Editing: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Locations and Logistics: Ingi Jensson
Costume Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Installation: Ana Baer
Sound: Richard Hall
Production: Heike Salzer, Ana Baer, Ingi Jensson, Margo Handwerker
Photos of installation and performance at the opening evening.
Documentation video of the installation
Single frame full size installation at right wall
Triptych landscape version on left wall
Espacios Latentes / Latent Spaces
Exhibition handout
WECreate ICE
Thule - Beyond the borders of the known world (2019)
Screendance, cinematic edition
Presented in the context of screendance festivals.
Versions include:
Thule - 11 minute long version including all locations.
Short films of individual locations,
Direction: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Dance: Heike Salzer
Camera and Editing: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Music:
Richard D. Hall
Filled Valley - Golden Width
Vapour Vision
Whisking Tales
Luke Bramford & James Ryan
Sleeping Summit
Brendan Pillay
Whisking Tales
Environmental Sounds: Fieldrecording.net
Costume Design: Ana Baer & Heike Salzer
Locations and Logistics: Ingi Jensson
Filmed on locations in Iceland
Dalarfylli • Gullbreiða
Filled Valley • Golden Width
Jökulsárlón And Rauðisandur
Hnjúkalúr
Sleeping Summit
Möðrudalsleið
Öldusvorfið • Fangað Rennsli
Shaping Waves • Frozen Flow
Kálfshamar
Eimsýn
Vapour Vision
Hverarönd
Braghviða
Whisking Tales
Flatey
Production: WECreate Productions
Publication details
Screening records
Title: Hnjúkalúr - Sleeping summit
June 18, 2020
Screened during keynote, Baer A. & Salzer H. (2019) WECreate Productions - The Subject of Landscape, at the 1st edition of the Encuentro Internacional de Artes Escénicas - Alternativas para la Enseñanza y la Creacipon en el Ambiente Universitario / International Congress of Performing Arts - Alternatives for Teaching and Creation in the University Environment.
Taking place at Popular School of Fine Arts (FPBA), Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Morelia (Mexico) in collaboration with Texas State University (United States); the University of Roehampton (United Kingdom); National University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica); the company La Tempestad (Mexico); Hope College Hollanvd (United States); Stanford University (United States).
February 27, 2019
Screened during International lecture series research presentation, Salzer H. (2019)
Romanticism in Screendance - the Body in Landscape, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC (United States)
April 16, 2018
Screened during keynote, Salzer H. (2018) Screendance as an embodied research method, as part of Screendance Landscapes Symposium, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice (Italy)
February 21 + 22, 2018
Screened during public guest lecture, Salzer H. (2018) Aestheticizing Environments through Arts and Technology, Texas State University Department of Dance and Theatre, San Marcos (United States).
September 23, 2017
Screened during presentation, Salzer H. (2017) The Wanderlust methods-Screendance in Landscapes, [UN]W.R.A.P.: Dance Cinema Panel - Screendance from around the globe, a symposium at Colorado University, Boulder (United States); in collaboration with the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema.
Title: Thule - Beyond the border of the known world
July 2020
Screening invited as part of the official selection at the video dance section, Dance Days Chania 10, Chania (Crete)
June-July 2020
Official selection American Dance Festival's Movies by Movers (United States)
February 2020
Official selection Frostbite International Online Film Festival, and winner of Best Original Score, Colorado Springs, CO (United States)
September 2019
Screened at the Official selection of the Geofilm Festival 3rd Edition,
October 12-27, 2019
IScreened at Corpo e Câmera: Composição Coreográfica na Viodedança at SESC Campinas (Brazil)
May 6-8, 2019
Screened during the Artist Presentation at Screen.Dance, Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen 2019, Perth Dance Festival (United Kingdom)
WECreate Productions is the transcontinental company of screendance artists Ana Baer and Heike Salzer. Committed to exploring the possibilities of digital technology in service of collaborative art creation, they produce site-specific interdisciplinary works inspired by their shared fascination of extreme landscapes, place and narratives of sites.