Two women become immersed in their emotional responses to a combative world. Adopting the format of a band to encompass a range of activities, the film creates a sonic experience through movement and mayhem. SHOWTIMES Tuesday, February 16 6:00 PM Buy Tickets VENUE Walter Reade Theater...
A dance narrative set against the backdrop of New Zealand’s coastline, Loughlan Prior’s David features two parallel storylines that examine the title character’s young life and those he has come to share it with. SHOWTIMES Sunday, February 14 6:00 PM Buy Tickets VENUE Walter Reade Theater...
Martiality, Not Fighting follows a young Chinese dancer performing the role of conscientious objector. Moving through the pedestrian and the abstract, he reflects on the question “to fight or not to fight.” The choreography is infused with images drawn from postmodern dance as well as...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs style="horizontal_left"][vc_tab title="Synopsis" tab_id="1440525917-1-10"][vc_column_text]Centered on process and discussion, this year’s Work-In-Progress screening will feature The Other Side of Stillness by Alexx Shilling | alexx makes dances, the selected film from Dance Films Association’s Production Grant application pool. Moderated by Yara Travieso, an award-winning multimedia director,...
Part dance film, part documentary, Black Stains is a poignant and sobering meditation on what it means to be a black man in today’s society. Moving with uncompromising physicality, an all male ensemble destabilizes conventional assumptions of masculinity and racial stereotypes as they navigate through...
Courtesy of the artists and Kate Werble Gallery, New York Drawn from footage of a performance designed for the landmark historical rooms of the Park Avenue Armory, recently opened to the public at the time of the video’s making, Park Avenue...
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kym and laurel is a super 8mm film exploring personal narratives through body language. Featuring Laurel Atwell and Kym Chambers. Silent....
A Queer Venezuelan journeys through Williamsburg, Brooklyn experimenting with the body in this improvisation shot and edited in 24 hours....
niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience through live performance....
24 dancers embody the birth of neurons, activating the brain/body. Created in consultation with leading neuroscientists....
Akasha is the Sanskrit word for “aether," said to embody the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. This film uses the expressive movements of aerial and dance to explore one woman’s connection to the elements around her....
A film based on the lifelong experience of two women from birth to death....
An experimental dance film by Bertil Nilsson featuring dancer Michael-John Harper Music: “A Shadowy Figure Emerges” by Purse Candy"...
Company director, choreographer and dancer Daniel Gwirtzman collaborated with filmmaker Rafael Silva de Carvalho on this brief film, shot in a craggy clearing in Misericórdia, Bahia, a small town on the island of Itaparica. Daniel says, “Its landscape recalled the moon with its cratered surface.""...
Chainreaction is a collision of dance, animation and sound that juxtaposes the movements of live performers with the motion of animated projections, in a continuous interactive evolution of action reaction....
"Children and Art" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Dance artist Carmen de Lavallade dances Richard Daniels's choreography to Stephen Sondheim's song from his musical "Sunday in the...
This non-narrative video is a dance of puppet-like figures, and mesmerizing forms, accompanied by percussive rhythms. It is a magical spectacle portraying a mesmerizing world in which figures flow and drip in a universe of their own as they proceed to a greater void. The...
TAGGED features graffiti painted dancers who create a moving image on city streets and transform spaces viewed as sacred, private, or useless into a useful urban theater. It addresses how artists claim public and private space as a creative canvas and encourages communities to see...
"Every Day a Little Death" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Writer, critic, dancer Deborah Jowitt dances in choreography by Richard Daniels, to lyrics of the song from...
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...
The sound of a lone flutist practicing Debussy’s Syrinx heard while walking through a forest in 1948, inspired the American choreographer Jean Erdman to create Hamadryad, a vision of a passionate wood nymph. In this dance fantasy directors, Nancy Allison and Paul Allman follow Bessie...
A woman and a man share a suspended moment of intimacy sitting before a vast ocean. Here they muse on the enigmatic immensity of their own destiny, taking us into an ethereal fantasy that is compelled by ardent love, outside of time and the constraints...
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....
“Angsters” was originally choreographed as an upbeat display of movement inspired by the anxieties of modern life, where the performers embody concerns of the dancer, including time (or lack thereof), technique, criticism, and voice/perspective. The filmmakers decided to explore these concepts further by setting the...
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...
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." - Cicero A short film conceived and choreographed by Loughlan Prior, Memory House features Sir Jon Trimmer and artists of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in a dramatically framed and performed exploration of dance, time and nostalgia....
