BACKYARD DANCES is an on-line community dance that brings the ordinary and the local to global networks.

Help create a global community, an online neighbourhood of backyard ‘dancers’. Transform your backyard into a screen dance to be used in an online community dance project that responds to the question can remote connections become a truly rewarding experience in and of themselves?

WANTED - 30 sec - 3 minute videos transcribing the terrain of your backyard, the micro and the macro, the gritty and the serene, the discarded and the sculptured through the lens of a camera. Take us on a journey, offer a new perspective, strap your camera to your foot, your knee, your elbow or your head and make a recording of the path made by your dance in your own backyard.
Send us your recordings (no more than 3 minute qtvr/mp4) and these will be transcribed into a choreographic score for a performed series of solo dances from divergent places. This global ensemble facilitates a new community of backyard dancers who will perform live at the Electrosmog Festival.

The 'BACKYARD DANCES' performance will occur on Sunday morning, the 21 March at aprox. 10am (NZ time)

Send your images or enquiries to: backyardvideo@beccawood.co.nz

MP4’s and Quicktime movies accepted between 30 seconds and 3 min duration