Galerie Michel Journiac
presents
Dance on camera

March 31 - April 18, 2008

Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Curated by Mélanie Perrier

PROGRAM 1« Hors scène : Danse en architecture »

PAVILLON NOIR
Pierre Coulibeuf, France, 2006; 24m
Pierre Coulibeuf adapts contemporary artistic universes. His films invent
a marginal language, are critical of established forms and question the
ways of presentation. Pavillion Noir highlights the virtual relations
between the choreography of Angelin Prejlocaj, the architecture, the urban space and the landscape.

FLYING LESSON
Phil Harder, Rosanne Chamecki, Andrea Lerner, USA, 2007; 4'37m
A sweet sail one foot above Brooklyn, accomplished by Rosanne Chamecki and Andrea Lerner who are old friends from their native Brazil. Winner of DFA's 2008 Jury Prize

THE COST OF LIVING
Lloyd Newson , England, 2004, 34m
Choreographer/Director Lloyd Newson of London's famed DV8 takes us to a faded seaside town where street performers David and Eddie struggle to find work and romance. A film that hurls provocations and scalding humor at notions of how the fit and unfit are supposed to act. Winner of DFA's 2005 Jury Prize

CARBON MINOXIDE
Kaori Ito (France) 2004, 6.48m
A girl travels through the city adopting the movements of the odd characters she encounters. Set to the music of singer-songwriter Regina Spektor.

PANORAMA ROMA
Anna de Manincor, Italy, 2005, 12m
Panorama_Roma is an original crossing of visal arts and cinema experimentations (starting from the earliest panoramas by Lumière, Edison, Alber Khan). Piazza del Popolo in Rome was chosen as a perfect example of imperfect symmetry and as a pedestrian junction of employees, clerks, tourists, artists and priests. In this naturally elliptic set, the camera, as if it were a watch, completes a 360° round in 60 minutes. Among unaware passer-bys, the camera discovers little by little strange narcoleptic beings who live, move, watch, and sleep in the architecture and launch encoded signals to the spectator. Performers act in a parallel temporal landscape in the condition of permanence.

PROGRAM 2 « Histoires de danse(s) : Films dansés »

BABEL
Peter Sparling, USA, 2005, 7:22m
A former member of Martha Graham Dance Company returns in a solo that would only be possible on screen. Mirroring the voices in Arvo Part’s score, he reveals four physical personalities. He transcends boundaries of gender and character while charting a man’s struggle to embody his own metamorphosis.

HERE AFTER
Wim Vandekeybus, Belgium, 2007; 65m
Through flashbacks, Here After tells the story of an isolated community in
which a power-mad tyrant commands an infanticide. In the danced scenes wesee how the characters relive their memories in the here-after; as if
their emotions and traumas were captured in the memory of their bodies.
The film shows terror and its destroying effect on a community and
questions existential themes such as life/death, culpability/penance,
identity/memory, regret/negation and power/freedom.

FRAGMENTATION
Suzon Fuks, Australia, 2007; 5.8m
Two guys, James Cunningham, Rob Tannion, absorbed in their morning paper
and their personal space, manage to find a disjointed connection with one
another.

APROP
Aitor Echeverria, Spain, 2007; 6m
Sleep interrupted by the brush of a familiar touch. The sigh of that voice
inviting you to play. The most everyday gestures become, at close range,
an extraordinary dance.

FOLIES D'ESPAGNE
Philip Buiser, USA, 2007; 7m
A mysterious woman appears at court where manner and reputation are essential for survival. She breaks all the rules publicly and is ultimately put back in her place as a subject of the court. This work contrasts the formality of the Baroque aesthetic with contemporary issues of sexuality andclass. Created in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Austin McCormick, winner of DFA's 2007 Young Choreographers Initiative.

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This program was made possible through DFA's touring program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the members of DFA, and the Susan Braun Trust.

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