Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvina Szperling has choreographed since the ‘80s, both for the stage and site-specific pieces. In 1993 she made her first videodance Temblor, which received the “Best Editing” Prize in Argentina and is held at the New York Public Library’s Dance Collection.

In 1995 she founded the International Festival VideoDanzaBA and is founding member of Latin American Forum of Videodance. VideoDanzaBA will celebrate its 20th. Anniversary in 2015, and it’s the oldest screendance festival in Latin America.

Szperling currently teaches at the Arts Criticism Department at IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte), in Buenos Aires. She has been intensively teaching seminars and workshops through Argentina and Latin America for the last 10 years. Highlights are the Cinema School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and the Federal Program of Videodance, which has covered in 2014 the remote regions of Patagonia, NOA (North West) and NEA (North East), giving access to screendance tools to artists and students who live distant to the main cities of the country.

Silvina contributed articles to publications of the screendance field, such as Envisioning dance on Film and Video (UCLA/Routledge, NY-London) and The International Journal of Screendance (University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA/University of Brighton, UK), and is co-editor of Terpsícore en ceros y unos. Ensayos de Videodanza (Guadalquivir, Buenos Aires, 2010) the first book published in Spanish on this field.

She has also written as a dance critic for newspapers such as Página/12 (Buenos Aires), La Opinión (Los Angeles) and Dance Magazine (USA). Her videodance piece Chámame (2008) was awarded First Prize at “La mujer y el cine” contest, Third Prize at “La noche del cortometraje” (Buenos Aires), Best Performance Prize at festival Tápias (Rio de Janeiro), and First Prize in its category at “Cinedans/IMZ” (Amsterdam). It has been broadcast through TV Catalunya (Spain), NRK (Norway), ZDF (Germany), INCAAtv (Argentina) and the online channel Tendue TV (USA). Silvina is currently working on a feature documentary film about the experimental filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch (“Reflejo Narcisa / Narcisa Reflex”, working title).

Douglas Rosenberg combines multi-disciplinary practice and theory. His work for the screen has been continuously curated into the most significant exhibition venues in the field, both nationally and internationally and he has been recognized with numerous awards, grants and fellowships.

As a scholar, Professor Rosenberg has brought attention to the field of screendance and has been active in shaping the discourse of the field through his published writing, the organization of conferences, founding of a long-standing international screendance festival, the founding of the first international journal dedicated to screendance (for which he is the founding editor). And his book, from Oxford University Press, Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, is the first book of its kind, situating screendance in the wider discourse of the visual arts, performance and film studies. He is also the founding director of The Conney Project on Jewish Arts at UW’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.

Recent exhibition of his work (juried or curated) include: Lincoln Center, NY, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, Manipur, India, Findhorn, Scotland, Sao Paulo, Brazil, London, England, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and China. Recent peer reviewed publications and conference papers/presentations include TDR Journal from MIT Press, a lecture at National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, the Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Stanford, CA and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Forthcoming is an essay in an edited volume on screendance from Danca em Foco in Brazil. He has received the James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and funded by the James D. Phelan Trust an EMMY Nomination: (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), for Outstanding Achievement for Entertainment Program, Single Entertainment, Program or Series for his Five Dance Films About Place, two nominations and one Isadora Duncan Award (IZZY) for Singing Myself a Lullaby (with Ellen Bromberg), San Francisco Bay Area Dance Coalition.

Professor Rosenberg has received numerous prestigious national and international awards, grants and fellowships for his work and he has been cited in a variety of journals, books and other publications. His next book, The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Douglas Rosenberg is Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ellen Bromberg is a choreographer, filmmaker, media designer, curator and educator. A former dancer and choreographer with Utah’s Repertory Dance Theater, she has received numerous awards for her work including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bonnie Bird American Choreographer Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the George Soros Foundation, among others. She has also been honored with a Pew National Dance/Media Fellowship, a UC Berkeley Townsend Humanities Fellowship, and two UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence Awards.

Ellen’s screen works have been presented on public television stations, online channels, and at numerous national and international dance film festivals including Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, Cinedans Amsterdam, VideoDanza, Buenos Aires, and Dance Camera Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, to name just a few. Recent work focuses on the integration of media in performance and she has designed video for stage and installations in her own work and in collaboration with other choreographers and media artists including Della Davidson, Pat Graney, Zvi Gotheiner, Deborah Hay, Stephen Koester, Victoria Marks, Douglas Rosenberg, Doug Varone among others.

A frequent guest artist, Ms. Bromberg has been in residence at numerous colleges, universities and organizations throughout the country, Europe and Canada, and she has been of service to the field for state arts agencies and foundations, as well as providing essays and articles to print and online publications.

A Professor at the University of Utah, and recipient of a 2012 Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award, Ellen is the founding director of the International Dance Screendance Festival, which began in 1999. She was the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology and she has also designed the first Graduate Certificate in Screendance, in collaboration with the Department of Film and Media Arts.