The Jury Members

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Philippe Decouflé

was born in Paris in 1961. Following an unorthodox dance education in France and the USA, today he is the director and choreographer of the DCA company in Paris, Saint Denis. He gained international recognition for his staging of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 16th Winter Olympic Games in Albertville/Savoyen in 1992 and for his other large parades in Japan and France, in 1996 and 1997. His dance films and dance videos have been acknowledged with numerous international prizes.


About my desire to do film choreography

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Dirk Gryspeirt

Born in 1946 in Léopoldville (Kongo), Dirk Gryspeirt studied directing at RITCS, Brussels, and classical ballet at The Royal Conservatory La Monnaie. He was a
dancer at the Royal Opera in Gent and with Ballet Contemporain in Brussels. Since 1972, he works as a director with the Belgian VRT television (formerly BRT). He has directed nine transmissions of opera as well as numerous dance productions. Today, he teaches a/o, directing for television, at the Film Academy Brussels (RITCS)


Thoughts on the adaptation of choreographies for video

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Claudia Rosiny

Dr. Claudia Rosiny studied theatre, film and television, in Cologne and Amsterdam. Since 1991, she is a co-organiser of the Berner Tanztage. In the summer of 1997, having written her dissertation on video dance, she received a doctorate from the University of Bern's Institute for theatre sciences. At the beginning of 1998, she was appointed co-director of a new forum for media and design that will be opening, at the end of October, in the Berner Kornhaus.


My relationship to video dance and dancescreen

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Deirdre Towers

is since 1991, a committee member of the DFA - Dance Films Association, New York, and has directed their annual festival, Dance On Camera, since 1994. Her extensive career directions incorporate journalism, culture management, choreography and teaching. She is a producer and issuer of dance videos and a publisher of dance books. She has conducted lectures and workshops about American dance videos for, a/o, the Institute for Spanish Arts (New Mexico) and the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal).


Thoughts on dance video

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Rodney Wilson

Is at present an independent producer working on numerous projects for, a/o, the Arts Council of England (ACE), the BBC and for the fifth series of Dance for the Camera. Rodney Wilson studied painting and experimental film art at different colleges in Great Britain. In 1986, he established the Arts Council of England's department for film, video and broadcasting and was its director until 1998.
Concurrently, he was the Executive Producer for all of ACE's arts and cultural TV productions: a total of 17 television series, constituting more than 100 individual films. With colleagues from television, he has devised new TV programmes such as (a/o) Dance for the Camera, Sound on Film, Expanding Pictures and Picture House.


It isn't Dance, you can't see their feet
A personal view of television and dance

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In order to maintain the Jury's objectivity, the Jurors are obliged to observe the following jury procedures:

A juror is obliged to abstain from voting
- in case s/he directly participated - in whichever function - in the production;
- in case s/he is currently employed by the producer or co-producer, the entering organisation/company, The dance company
- in case s/he is a relative of a person directly involved in the production

In order to facilitate the jury's deliberations but to ensure its impartiality, a jury member who is obliged to abstain from voting on a production for the reasons outlined above may participate in the general discussions relating to that production until the shortlist is drawn up. During the jury's final deliberations as to the prize-winning programmes on the shortlist, a jury member who is obliged to abstain from voting for a specific production will leave the room during the discussion and voting on that production.