The International Dance Critique Seminar is an annual international 5 day event which takes place in Monterrey, Mexico. It includes lectures, seminars and master classes by many of the most important Mexican and International dance critics. One of the Seminar’s principal objectives is to nurture critical reflection as it relates to the creation and public image of dance.
The Seminar is a reunion of some of the most important Mexican and international dance critics which discusses many issues of importance to the dance critique. Throughout 5 days of workshops and conferences, the Seminar provides a space where outstanding national and international dance critics discuss the history, problems, and current situation of dance. 
The Seminar also includes among its activities the award for best critique created during the Seminar, which represents the only award for dance criticism in the country.
The Seminar is supported by the Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. The objective of 2008’s seminar is to bring together journalists, students, and dance teachers of Nuevo Leon and other Mexican states and to become a national and international dance criticism event. With this in mind, we are working to offer different courses, workshops and conferences with the most prominent national and international dance critics, having as our foundation the professionalization of dance in our country.
Seminar Coordinator: Seme Jatib
On this occasion, we are honored with the participation of Hayde Lanchino and Mariana Arteaga who will impart the “Creating Video Dance Workshop”. This workshop is a new way of approaching the image in movement and the movement of the image, as well as a new way of creating dance and its interrelation with other media. This provides an update on dance and the use of new technologies, stimulating the creation of interdisciplinary works that link the performing arts with electronic media.
The objective is to observe, perceive, create, and record dance for the camera and identify characteristics that lead to define what is a video of dance, differentiating it from mere stage registration.
The student, through a teaching method that is constructivism, will build their knowledge in such a way that at the end of this lesson will be gain an understanding that will be able to be applied to practical experience. A critical attitude will be developed in the student towards the creative processes that allow them to perceive the work with sufficient perspective to evaluate properly the work created.
HAYDE LANCHINO Mexico. Graduate of the INBA Center for Choreographic Research and The Principles of Choreography Seminar organized by CENART and CONACULTA. She has developed herself as theatre director, television, cinema, and rock producer, as well as having an outstanding career as a choreographer and filmmaker. She created and directed the International Week of Video Dance in Mexico (2000, 2002, and 2004), which allowed the exhibition of works by Mexican and Latin American artists.
 As a filmmaker, she has participated in several international festivals and Mexican video art shows, among them being Murcia, Spain; Out in Rancho Grande, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Free Art Salon of Queen Sofia’s Museum, Madrid Spain; in addition to the 1st International Video Dance Festival of Uruguay, the 1st Video Dance International Festival in La Havana, Cuba and New York City.
She created the documentary to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the College Cultural Center of the UNAM. The video “Ventanitas”, done in collaboration with the Irene Martinez, participated in the official section of the 2nd National Indigenous Film Festival. She created the documentary “Papeles de Guerra” based on the creative process of Mexican choreographer Lidia Romero’s staging of “Papeles de Guerra”. She has co-produced several multimedia shows in addition to participating in them as a video artist, of which AQUA and Last Dance were outstanding, this latter nominated for the LUNAS of the Auditorium 2006. She currently writes for the “Tiempo Libre” weekly, and works permanently for other publications specialized in dance such as the South American Dance Net newsletter.
MARIANA ARTEAGA Mexico. Since 1995, Mariana Arteaga has combined her work in communications with dance, working as a dancer with prominent Mexican choreographers. In 1999 she joined the multimedia department of the University of Arts and Sciences Museum of the UNAM when she began research and development in videodance, scheduling the first Mexican exhibition in the gallery of MUCA, Rome. Once outside of MUCA, in 2002 she obtained the support of several institutions to schedule the exhibition of Dance Screen on Tour in the Center for Cinematographic Training. In 2004, with the support of the Artistic Education National Program, she presented the second successful exhibition of Dance Screen on Tour.
 Her research on dance on the screen precedes the creative process of her first videodance entitled Destierro which was shown with great success in dance for screen festivals in Barcelona, Russia, Japan, Australia, and Greece; that same year, she participated as a dancer in the choreography La Puerta by Erika Mendez, winner of the second place in the 25th Choreographic Composition Award of the INBA UAM.
From 2001 to 2004, she worked as Director of Production for the Festival of Mexico in the Historic Center coordinating the logistics of the event. In 2006, along with Hayde Lachino, she co-founded the International Festival of Dance and Electronic media (FEDAME), only festival in its kind in Mexico, aiming to promote dance in relation with new technologies. She is currently forms part of MITROVICA Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Andrea Chirinos.
Currently she continues her contemporary dance research work with MITROVICA Contemporary Dance Company and in the creation of new videodance. She is the official contemporary dance programming consultant for the Festival of Mexico in the Historic Center.
The International Seminar of Dance Critique, in its 5th edition, is supported by the participation of the International Festival of Dance and Electronic Media (FEDAME), which was created to promote dance with its relation with film, video and other technological media. Its intention is to take to an extended audience the art of choreography in a new and more attractive way, besides stimulating dancers, video artists, film makers, and Mexican choreographers to incorporate in their creative processes these new tools of expression.
For its official opening, the FEDAME presented in December 2006 “Como la Vida Misma” which consisted in the exhibitions of short and feature films, winners of various international dance festivals by companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, La, la, la Human Steps and Ultima Vez, among others, all displayed in 3 public plazas in Mexico City.
Such was the success of these exhibitions, that the International Seminar of Dance Critique invited FEDAME to share a specific selection of short video format: ordinary bodies in extraordinary moments: some daily and simple, others powerful and motivating.
The following videodances will be shown as part of this year's Seminar:
HUMAN RADIO Country: England. Direction and Choreography: Miranda Pennell Performers: 2001 London inhabitants. Year: 2001 Duration: 9’
LE P’TIT BAL PERDU Country: France. Direction and Choreography: Philippe Decouflé. Performers: Philippe Decouflé, Pascale Houbine and Annie Lacour. Year: 1994 Duration: 4’
MONTEVIDEOAKI Country: Spain. Direction: Octavio Iturbe. Choreography and performance: Hiroaki Umeda. Year: 2004 Duration: 5’ 17’’
ERÈ MÈLA MÈLA Country: France Direction: Daniel Wiroth Coreografía: Lionel Hoche. Performers: Lionel Hoche and David Drouad. Year: 2002 Duration: 5’
DESTIERRO Country: Mexico. Direction and Choreography: Mariana Arteaga. Performers: Tania Solomonoff and Gustavo Muñoz. Year: 2004 Duration: 3’ 30’’
MINOU Country: England. Direction: Magali Charrier. Choreography: María Lloyd. Performers: Maria Lloyd, Benjamin Lord. Year: 2002 Duration: 7’
CODEX (FRAGMENT) Country: France. Direction and Choreography: Philippe Decouflé. Performers: Cía. DCA. Year: 1994 Duration: 4’
UM MOVIMENTO QUASE QUALQUER Country: Brazil/France. Direction: Cecilia Lang. Choreography: Dominique Mercy and Malu Airaldo. Performers: Inhabitants of Río de Janeiro. Workshop by Carolyn Carson. Year: 2003 Duration: 13’
The International Dance Critique Seminar also includes other activities within its scheduling. Some other activities include:
• INTENSIVE COURSES Duration: 3 hrs. Instructors: Margarita Tortajada, Deborah Jowitt, and Critic to be confirmed.
• CONFERENCES Duration: 1 hr. aprox. Conferences given by invited Critics.
• ROUND TABLE All participating Critics united for discussing the subject of "Dance in its relation to and challenges with technology".
• PRESENTATION OF THE MAGAZINE: “Danza, Pasión y Movimiento”.
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