2008

São Paulo Culture Center
November 22 – December 7, 2008
In partnership with dança em foco, the São Paulo Culture Centre (CCSP) displayed videodance works on ten plasma screens arranged throughout its facilities, in addition to hosting chats with event directors Paulo Caldas and Regina Levy.

II International Videodance Display - São Carlos
From November 21 to 23, works from the International Videodance Exhibition (MIV) were exhibited.  This event also featured a lecture by dança em foco director Paulo Caldas.

Touring Program
This is a special dança em foco program designed especially as a touring display of the best videos exhibited each year.  In 2008, this program was featured between November and December at the following international festivals: I Festival de Video Danza in Ecuador; and the 4è Rencontres de danses métisses in Cayenne, French Guyana.

Mercosur Videodance Circuit (CVM)
Between 2004 and 2007, dança em foco entered into an association with the Festival Internacional de Videodanza del Uruguay and the Festival Internacional de Video-Danza de Buenos Aires, forming the Mercosur Videodance Circuit.  In 2005, this partnership resulted in the first DVD compilation of Brazilian, Argentine and Uruguayan videodance works, becoming a global benchmark for Latin American output and drawing presentation invitations from festivals and culture centers all over the world, including Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, France, UK, Germany, Spain and the USA, among others.  The 2007 edition saw the launch of the second and last compilation of videos, featuring works from the three countries constituting this Circuit.

International Videodance Exhibition (MIV)
Today, the MIV is one of the world’s most important display platforms, gathering together works from a wide variety of esthetic and geographic fields.  Firming up its position as an extraordinary occasion for disseminating contemporary choreographic output, the MIV opens in Rio de Janeiro and extends through two tiers of activities: Brazilian festivals and exhibitions, displaying international programs all over Brazil; and videodance festivals elsewhere in the world – with which dança em foco has partnerships, through a touring selection that features Brazilian and Latin American works.  The International Videodance Exhibition (MIV) has partners in Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Uruguay and Turkey.

Keen interest in the MIV is reflected through its circulation in Brazil.  Since 2004, its touring version, with or without lectures and discussions, has been displayed in: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State; Curitiba, Parana State; Joinville and Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State; São Paulo, São Paulo State; Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State; Goiânia, Goias State; Brasília, Federal District; Fortaleza, Itapipoca, Paracuru and Trairi, Ceara State; Salvador, Bahia State; Recife, Pernambuco State; Teresina, Piaui State; Campina Grande, Paraiba State; Maceió, Alagoas State; and Macaé, Rio de Janeiro State.  In 2008, this list was extended through the addition of the Pará and Amazonas State capitals: Belém and Manaus.

Berlin
In 2006, the dança em foco took part in the Culture Cup held in Germany.  Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the support of the Halle Dance Theater, this event was designed specially to showcase Brazilian videodance output in the German capital.  Held at the Halle Dance Theaterin Berlin, this edition also featured the MIV, the launch of Volume I of dança em foco-dança e tecnologia, a lecture on Brazilian Videodance in the National and International Contexts and a videodance workshop on dança em foco, imagem e movimento.