Evan Siebens (SEVEN), Canada Portal 2003, New York, USA

Portal (part 1 2 3) is an evolution of a previously conceived interactive net-dance work, commissioned by Turbulence.org and with funding from the Greenwall foundation. The project, which is collaboration between media artist Yael Kanarek and dance filmmaker/choreographer Evann Siebiens, follows a traveler passing from the physical world to a virtual world called the Sunset/Sunrise. The work touches on the spatial and aesthetic relationship between virtual and physical spaces, as well as the relationship between user and digital content. Cinematic and kinetic, the traveler uses dance as her main mode of communication and means to travel between worlds. This ambiguity between the real and unreal is reflected in the contents: analog footage is mixed with digital resolutions as the figure moves from a New York City street to a virtual box to a digitally created desert landscape. Traditional dance film techniques as seen as in kinesthetic editing and image creation are combined with interactive techniques and screen design.

b. in Canada. Lives and works in USA. She is a dance filmmaker. Ms. Siebens studied at Britain's Royal Ballet School and the National Ballet School of Canada before dancing and choreographing with the National Ballet of Canada and the Bonn Ballet in Germany. She has recently danced with DANZAISA in New York and KUNST-STOFF in San Francisco. Evan graduated from New York University's undergraduate film program, and was also one of the inaugural visiting artists to participate in the UCLA Dance/Media Fellowship. Ms. Siebens works as a dance cinematographer and videographer and has filmed dancers such as Mikhail Banyshnikov, Bill T. Jones, Jose Navas, Sara Rudner, Molissa Fenley, Peter Boal, Eiko, and Lucinda Childs.