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Created as a development project for interfaces between the dance and video, dança em foco is today one of the world’s leading videodance festivals. Although its themes encompass the widest possible variety of esthetic possibilities that arise from the meeting of new technologies (above all, images) and contemporary dance, dança em foco is specifically engaged with videodance. For example, the English terms screen dance, video, dance for the camera, camera choreography, with a variety of nuances, describe practices and events within this art form produced only on video and for video, simultaneously embodying the choreographic and videographic dimensions. Flourishing in several countries, videodance offers an extraordinary opportunity to disseminate contemporary choreographic output. The International Videodance Exhibition (MIV) of dança em foco gathers together works reflecting a broad esthetic and geographical diversity, presenting a program each year that includes hundreds of Brazilian and international works. In 2009, this festival is held in Rio de Janeiro, as well as five other Brazilian State Capitals: Belém, Goiânia, Manaus, São Paulo and Teresina. While showcasing recent global production in Brazil, dança em foco introduces Brazilian and Latin American output to several videodance festivals: over the past few years, MIV has exchanged programs with partners in Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Cuba, French Guyana, Ecuador, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Uruguay and Turkey. Set up in 2003 as a trail-blazing project in Brazil, dança em foco made its mark not so much as a specific event but rather as a major platform for disseminating, shaping and producing the many different possibilities for association between the body, movement and image. This is why the universe of interest for this project includes, in addition to videodance, interactive performances, choreographic installations, multimedia spectacles and everything that – in the broadest sense – problematizes the body and the image. Each year, workshops, round tables, lectures and courses supplement the program drawn up for this festival. Published annually since 2006, a trilingual book extends the scope of this project by gathering together essays written by international and Brazilian researchers; dança em foco’s book has helped build up a body of critical thought on this new form of audiovisual production, particularly within the Latin American context, as well as several other types of dance and video crossroads. The essays presented in this year’s book - entitled dança em foco – A Dança na Tela (Dance on Screen)- present this affective flow between the poetics of the body and the image, both in movement. Once again, this is mainly a way of prompting and publicizing thoughts that, despite their very different backgrounds, address what we see emerging from the meeting of the human body with new technologies. Stressing the underlying theme of this meeting, dança em foco has been firming up its position right from the start as a project that is really up to the minute in many different ways: by extending boundaries and exploring niches, this project is linked to the main issues running through art today. We offer our thanks to the Rio de Janeiro chapter of the Social Service for Commerce (SESC-RJ) for its annual renewals of the partnership that launched this project, and above all to Oi Futuro, an institution honored for its firm support for art and technology that has offered such a wonderful welcome to our dança em foco – International Video and Dance Festival. We also wish to record the renewal of the partnership with the São Paulo chapter of SESC in 2008 and with the Caixa Cultural in 2009, as the institution underwriting the dança em foco tour to four Brazilian State Capitals: Belém, Manaus, Teresina and Goiânia.
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