January 7, 2015A Juice Box Afternoon

This is the first in a new series Lily conceived as The Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship between a reader, words and imagination. Episode #1 is a romantic and jarring dream. A JUICE…

January 7, 2015Stella & Tom

ABT members Stella Abrera and Thomas Forster perform to “Depuis le jour” from the Gustave Charpentier opera Louise at the window-filled Ailey studios.

January 7, 2015Ghost line

An experimental dance film by filmmaker Shona Masarin and choreographer/performer Cori Olinghouse, “Ghost line” brings together the absurdist impulses of Dada and Surrealism with the kinetics of vaudeville, eccentric dance, and silent film to ask: how do we capture and reimagine—in a parlous age of…

January 7, 2015Escualo

After their sensational Dance Scene “Chant Et Fugue” The Lombard Twins are back with a new powerful piece “ESCUALO”. Another Dance Scene from the Piazzolla Suite.

January 7, 2015Well Contested Sites

Well Contested Sites is a 13- minute dance/theater film that explores the issue of mass incarceration and the complexity of experiences faced by those who are in prison. The films cast is comprised of Bay Area performing artists, some of who were previously incarcerated. The…

January 7, 2015Det Skal Danses Vaek

A boy walks through school seeing visions of his classmates dancing in hallways, staircases, and in restrooms. He starts to doubt what is real, but when the girl he likes invites him to dance, he too starts to move. The film was made in collaboration…

January 7, 2015Washed

A recounting of violent event through the integration of narrative film and dance: A female laundry worker desperately attempts to abort the fruit of a violent encounter. When the consequences of her action are reveled, the memories she has repressed re-emerge.