FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
- Be There Design Festival, film screening, Hong Kong, 2019
- Toronto Metro Convention Centre, Main entrance and Bridge displays, Canada, 2018-2019
- International Festival of Animated Dance, Réunion Island, France, 2018
- PAF Olomouc Festival, AniScreen Long Story Short Special Screening, Czech Republic, 2018
- CBC Arts TV, Exhibitionists S03 E10, 2017
- Open Space Gallery, Phased of Dance Solo Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 2017
- GradEx Annual Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, 2017
AWARDS
- Winner - 2D animation category, International Festival of Animated Dance, Réunion Island, France
- Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media honorable mention, The Society for Animation Studies (SAS)
- Emru Townsend Award, The Society for Animation Studies (SAS)
- Award for Interdisciplinary Excellence, OCAD University, Toronto
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Hand-drawn animated short film Phases of Dance (2017) consists of 2,100 individual drawings documenting embodied technique of bachata dance through rotoscoping. The 4-month production led to a solo exhibition at Open Space Gallery in Toronto.
Using real-life footage as a base for animation, the production began with choreographing and filming of a bachata sequence performed by Pavlo Farmakidis and I to the song "Lo Dice La Gente" by Daniel Santacruz.In the subsequent process of frame by frame interpretation of movement at 12 frames per second, as an animator I analyzed aspects of visual expression, performance and technique in my dance practice with attention to bodily motion, gesture and anatomy.
Hand drawn in two months, the 3:40 min film is also a documentation of my technique in traditional animation as I drew sequentially on a daily basis and the chronological order of each frame represents my progress in drawing, painting, and understanding of motion.
Using my practices as methods of research, this film explored the affordances of traditional animation rotoscoping as a record ofembodied technique as well as the epistemic structure of embodied practices - what knowledge is generated through our bodies.
Phases of Dance was released in support and special thanks to Daniel Santacruz for the use of his song "Lo Dice La Gente" (© 2014 Trebol Music), now featured on his Official Youtube Channel as an animated music video.
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CREDITS
Director, Animation and Editing: Iveta Karpathyova
Choreography: Pavlo Farmakidis
Dancers: Pavlo Farmakidis and Iveta Karpathyova
Music: "Lo Dice La Gente" by Daniel Santacruz
Produced at OCAD University © Iveta Karpathyova 2017