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Monaco Dance Forum PrizesThe future of dance is digital From its very first edition, six years ago, the Monaco Dance Forum took on board the then emerging use of digital technology in choreography. Today, the biennial Forum is recognised as the most important event world-wide in digital dance. Indeed, the creativity showcased at the Forum persuaded the UN’s UNESCO to devote its 10,000 Euro Digital Arts Prize to dance for the first time this year. HRH Princess Caroline, who chaired the UNESCO jury of five international dance professionals, described the competing entries from professional and student choreographers as “recounting our lives and revealing our sentiments...visiting our memories and plunging us into the future...proposing experiences that immerse us in a living universe”. UNESCO winner The UNESCO prizewinner to emerge out of 50 contending projects from 22 countries was the young Brazilian Ivani Santana, creator of Man Made His Difference. As the title suggests, the ballet explores the aspects of man’s differences and similarities of race, gender, culture and economies. “Differences” are clearly a theorem close to the Brazilian choreographer’s heart. Arriving on stage to accept her award, she did not limit herself to expressing her gratitude in the handful of French words she had acquired in Monaco, notably merci bien. She called upon the help of a translator to impress upon the audience that although her country had problems of poverty, it had no less creative potential. Ivani Santana’s French vocabulary is bound to expand in the next month. The Brazilian was also the recipient of a second in the five digital prizes awarded at the Forum: a month’s residence at the Centre Choreographique National d’Aix. SACD winner The US/French team Hillary Goidell and Richard Siegal took the 5,000 Euro prize awarded by SACD (Sociétes des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) for their If/Then Open Source, a work in which the audience is the counterpart in an encounter between a sleeping person and a strange visitor. Sogeda ( Société de Gestion des Droits d’Auteurs de Monaco) made two awards of 5,000 Euro each to Rijjamalala Rakotuarimamama of Madagascar and Brisa Munoz Parra of Chile. Rakotuarimamama’s award came for his Dimgadingama, the name of a tropical plant, that multiplies according to its environment, which the choreographer used as a symbol for the evolution and metamorphosis of the individual, while it was the Ejecicios Electrocoreograficos of the Chilean choreographer that captured the jury’s attention. Brisa Munoz Parra’s work evolved out of the relationship between the movement of the body and electronic imagery. Scholarship The final award was a scholarship offered by an American institution at the cutting edge of digital dance, the University of Arizona, home of choreographer Trisha Brown and dancer/choreographer Bill T. It went to the Taiwanese Chi-min Hsieh for his Fuente, a study of the inner propagation of energy outward to material bone and muscle. The bourse, which offers a nine-month residence at the US university, is estimated to be worth 23,000 dollars. by Lois Bolton 18.12.2006
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