VideoDanzaBA Festival: Almost Three Decades of Pioneering the Field in Latin American
Abstract
Created in 1995 by director Silvina Szperling, VideoDanzaBA is the first festival in Latin America dedicated to the promotion, dialogue and education in the field of screendance. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Festival has shown in its 28 years of existence hundreds of works from most corners of the planet, where Latin America has grown as a specific force in the field, gaining representation on screen as a diverse multicultural scope, both artistically and as a production and circulation network, such as REDIV (Red Iberoamericana de Videodanza/Ibero American Network of Screendance). In addition to its screendance competition, VideoDanzaBA has welcomed artists from all over the world to participate in its Education Program and academic Symposium. Some of these scholars' writings were included in the book “Terpsícore en ceros y unos. Ensayos de Videodanza” (Terpsichore in zeroes and ones. Essays on Screendance; Szperling, Temperley comp., Guadalquivir, Buenos Aires, 2010).
Through its history, VideoDanzaBA has depicted materials that document the artistic and political production of underrepresented communities in the field (women, indigenous people, LGBT+), comprising a wide scope of dance styles (contemporary, classical, hip hop, folklore, regional dances, tango). This paper will be an attempt to reconstruct this history in connection with the genealogy of the field of dance and technology in Argentina.
How to Cite:
Szperling, S., Cacciatore, M. & Leibovich, M., (2025) “VideoDanzaBA Festival: Almost Three Decades of Pioneering the Field in Latin American”, The International Journal of Screendance 15(1), 163-179. doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/screendance.7005
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