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Dance Camera West Media Film Festival
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May 02, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA – Dance Camera West (DCW), internationally
recognized as one of the foremost dance film festivals devoted to the art of
“dance made for the screen,” announces its seventh annual month-long festival,
hitting venues throughout southern California in June 2008. This film festival,
which features dance media in all forms, is a unique cinematic experience that
focuses on the intersection of cinematography and choreography. The Los
Angeles Times named the DCW festival ‘Best of LA’ for both 2006 and 2007.
Partnering with some of our most prestigious venues in Los Angeles, the festival
offers a global perspective of a new visual language. The programming consists
of experimental shorts, documentaries, features, and symposiums with visiting
international artists. See the month long festival schedule
www.dancecamerawest.org.
The June festival opens at the REDCAT Theater in
downtown LA, with its legendary kick-off party on Friday, June 6, 2008. For one
of the many highlights of the festival, DCW will present two days of programming
at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theatre entitled “From B-boys to
Ballerinas.” The weekend of free events will kick off with Marcy
Garriott’s award-winning feature-length documentary Inside the Circle, about
break-dancing B-boys from Texas, screening on Saturday night the 14th at 7:00pm
with a lively DJ party immediately following. Then on Sunday the 15th two
programs - an afternoon and an evening one – will captivate viewers on Father’s
Day. The 2:00pm program features two wildly creative dance performances on film:
Jiri Kylián’s Sleepless from Netherlands Dance Theatre and bODY_rEMIX, Marie
Chouinard’s masterpiece from Montreal. For the 6:00pm program on Sunday, Dance
Like Your Old Man from Chunky Move, a contemporary dance company from Australia
will screen, followed by Here After, a film at the crossroads of fiction and
dance by Belgium director and choreographer Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima
Vez.
Sat. June 14 at Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater in
Westwood
“From B-boys to Ballerinas” – the program at
the Hammer this Father’s Day weekend
7:00pm with dance party to
follow
Inside the Circle – feature length film
screening
B-boying was an integral part of early hip-hop in the 70’s as
street corner DJs noticed that dancers were exploding with creative moves during
the breakdown sections (or breaks) of funk songs. Quickly labeled “breakdancing”
by the media, this grassroots art form was over-hyped in the early 80’s, and
then seemed to disappear from view. But rather than dying out, b-boying went
underground and it went global, and it has now evolved into an extraordinary
dance form with a remarkably interconnected worldwide culture. Inside the
Circle, an award winning documentary by Marcy Garriott, provides a unique
window into this world as it follows the intense and intertwined stories of
three Texas b-boys - Romeo Navarro (B-Boy City), Josh (MIND-180), and Omar
(Mighty Zulu Kingz) - across several years. 102 minutes
- With special guest
appearances by the filmmaker and featured dancers for a Q & A.
- With a
DJ dance party to follow in the Hammer Courtyard.
Sun. June 15 at
Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood
“From B-boys to Ballerinas”
(continues) – the program at the Hammer this Father’s Day weekend
2:00pm
Contemporary Ballet (at its finest!) (2 films = 73
minutes)
Sleepless –
Contemporary ballet
choreographer Jiri Kylián created Sleepless in 2005 featuring six
dancers from the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT). Sleepless presents a
hallucinating blend of body parts that unexpectedly appear and disappear through
a permeable back wall. NDT is superb, amusing and at times, leaves one gasping.
Composer Dirk Haubrich uses the glass harmonica and the slow passages of
Mozart’s Adagio and Rondo in C Minor to add a mysterious fragility. 23 min. Best
IMZ Dancescreen 2007
Festival
bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS –
If
director Stanley Kubrick made ballets this is what it would look like!
Choreographer Marie Chouinard from Montreal and her company of ten dancers
execute variations on the exercise of freedom in this stage production from 2005
filmed in 2007. Often, the dancers appear on pointe and as a ballet company that
is not unusual until those points become three or even four at a time. In
extreme deliberation of the gesture, Chouinard integrates crutches, rope,
prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses into her outrageously creative
choreography. These props that could fetter some gives this master of movement a
whole new vocabulary. Manipulations of Glenn Gould’s recording of the Goldberg
Variations by Bach adds to this aberrant ballet that looks at the age old story
of the beauty and the beast. 2007, 50 minutes
6:00pm Contemporary Dance
Theatre (viewer discretion) (2 films = 75 minutes)
Dance Like
Your Old Man –
Chunky Move, a contemporary dance company in
Australia founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, has earned an
enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of
genre-defying dance performance. Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine
what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian
culture. In Dance Like Your Old Man, six women imitate their dads’ dancing in a
film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters. These unseen men
come to life through the dances and reflections of their children.
2006, 10
minutes; Best Documentary short film Melbourne International Film
Festival
Here After – (viewer discretion)
At
the crossroads of fiction and dance, this film is an adaptation of Puur (2005),
by Belgium director and choreographer Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez. It
combines excerpts from the Super 8 short film that accompanied the performance
with 16 mm images from the studio and on location at Oye-Plage. The performers
dance to the sounds of Fausto Romitelli and David Eugene Edwards (Woven Hand),
and words of author P. F. Thomèse. Through flashbacks, Here After tells the
story of an isolated community in which a power-mad tyrant commands an
infanticide. In the danced sequences we see how the victims relive their
memories in the hereafter, as though their emotions and traumas had permeated
their bodies. Inspired by ancient biblical myths on the massacre of children,
the film indirectly denounces today's genocide, terrorism and war. Depicting
terror and its devastating effects on a community, the film explores such
existential questions as life/death, culpability/penance, identity/memory,
regret/negation and power/freedom. 2007, 65 minutes, 'Creativity Award' from the
National Film Board of Canada at the FIFA (Festival International du Film sur
l'Art) in Montreal.
Hammer Museum – Billy Wilder Theater
10899
Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310-443-7000; www.hammer.ucla.edu)
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FREE admission, no reservations required; seating is first come first served
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