Canadian dance film wins international video award

>> by Cynthia Brett

The Greater the Weight, a dance film produced and directed by Mouvement Perpétuel's Marlene Millar and Phillip Szporer and featuring dancer/choreographer Dana Michel, received a jury award for best female performance at the first InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and Technology. Over sixty films from twenty-four countries were entered in the InShadow Festival, which took place from November 24th-26th, 2009 at the Sao Luiz Municipal Theatre in Lisbon, Portugal. The festival aims to raise awareness about the interdisciplinary connection between the body and new technologies. Mouvement Perpétuel is a video production company that specializes in arts documentaries.
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