A short film featuring Mohiniyattam dancer Vijyalakshmi and actor Michael Irby. Featuring opera singer Peabody Southwell and Flamenco singer Jesus Montoya. Cinematograpy Joost Van Starrenburg. Original music composed by Yuval Ron. Shot on location at and made possible by the generous support of the Metabolic Studio and...
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....
Sucked into a choreographic time warp, conceptual hip-hop dancers intersect, collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity. By the film’s end, viewers slowly realize things are not as they seem...
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...
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 with...
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....
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...
ABT members Stella Abrera and Thomas Forster perform to “Depuis le jour” from the Gustave Charpentier opera Louise at the window-filled Ailey studios....
More than a legacy project, Ze’eva Cohen Creating A Life In Dance is a model of how an artist can survive in the dance world by carving out an independent path for herself. Primarily narrated by Cohen, the documentary spans 70 years, encompassing her life...
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 BOX...
Buy Tickets: Monday February 4, 6:00pm Circling is a meditation on place, the passing of time and the cyclical nature of life. Featuring renowned choreographer/dancer Sally Gross and shot at locations including architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Circling is a poetic rendering of what it...
