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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">UNSW Media
Film & Theatre Seminar</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">5 p.m.
Wednesday 4 October</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Webster
Building Cinema 327</font></div>
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color="#007700"><b>LIGHT MUSIC</b></font></div>
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color="#FFCC00">Thierry De Mey</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="+1" color="#000000">Thierry De Mey is
an award-winning, internationally-exhibited Belgian artist who works
collaboratively as a composer, percussionist and film-maker. He
has been the director of choreographic composition at the prestigious
PARTS school attached to the Rosas company in Belgium since its
establishment. Recent projects include directing a film in
autumn 2005 with choreographer William Forsythe and, in spring 2006,
composing an original score for the encounter between choreographer
Akram Khan (London/India) and Sylvie Guilhem (Paris). He is
currently in Sydney to facilitate a dance screen workshop for Critical
Path and ReelDance.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="+1" color="#000000">Movement is
central to all Thierry De Mey's work, and much of his music is
composed for dance and cinema. In this presentation, he
will discuss his recent live production<i> Light Music</i> and his
installation<i> Into the Woods</i>. <i> Light Music</i> is a work
for a conductor/soloist that explores the relationship between
movements producing sound and the movements of dance. Moving
hands cross a beam of light and trigger percussive sound, and the
movement is simultaneously given form as a projected visual
'trace'. <i> Deep in the Wood</i> is a three-screen
projection or hexagonal screen set-up accompanied by his own original
electro-acoustic score. The choreographic material was created by some
thirty artists (including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jonathan Burrows
and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) who were invited to choose a character from
a fairytale or myth and then to bring them to life in a forest where
the footage was shot. The result is an installation in which the
movement phrases across screens conjure up an immersive
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<div><tt><font size="-1" color="#000000">Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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