Curated by Susannah Newman, the Dance on Camera Tour Returns to Cape May, New Jersey to bring dance film to their annual film festival. Please visit their website for more specific screening information. Below is the program to be screened.
DUET TWO WAYS: A WORKSHOP
Susannah Newman, US, 4m
Ms. Newman conducted a one day dance-on-camera workshop
with beginning students for The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company. The
objective was to introduce the students to basic shooting and editing
considerations utilizing the duet section from Dorfman’s work “Tikkun”.
The result is a student product which examines artistic choices through
two renditions of the same material. This film was designed to help orient a new audience as to how to look
at screen dance.
THERE IS A PLACE
Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, 2010; UK, 7m
Soloist Sang Jijia, a stunning ethnic Tibetan born in Gansu, studied choreography under William Forsythe and became the Resident Artist of Beijing Dance and Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 2007.
ON THE SOUND
Fred Baker, 1963; USA, 8.5m
Three celebrated Martha Graham dancers– Donald McKayle, Mary Hinkson and Matt Turney– took dance into the woods and onto the beach in this romp to the jazzy Gryce suite titled “The Rat Race.”
BLUES
William Moulton
THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA
Inna Sahakyan, Arman Yeritsyan, 2009; Armenia, 55m
Two septuagenarians, the most celebrated tightrope dancers in Armenia, share the same dream–that their only remaining student will keep their daring heritage alive. An elegy to a vanishing art form.Introduction by directors, made possible through The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and with the participation of the Zohrab Center.
