Evann Siebens - The Indexical, Alphabetized, Mediated, Archival Dance-a-Thon! - WAAP 2019

Referencing her archive of 16mm film and years of shooting dance, Siebens has created a personal manifesto and mediated lexicon of how to shoot dance, using film, collage, text and media. Influences include the choreographer William Forsythe, Yvonne Rainer and Judson Church artists such as Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs. In addition to the gallery installation at WAAP, Siebens has performed a live ‘Moving Camera Improv’ at her nearby studio and has invited dance artists Justine Chambers, James Gnam and the Plastic Orchid Factory to present work in March 2016.
Siebens has described her practice as mapping choreography through media, a result of her personal history with dance. Her concern with the moving body has resulted in her translating three-dimensional movement, memory and emotion to the still image and screen.
This publication was retrospectivly published by WAAP in a limited edition of 300 copies.