“The Dance Film Project” | Minneapolis, MN | December 12 & 13
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Cinema Revolution presents
The Dance Film Project
an evening of choreography for the camera
Image from “throne/thrown” by Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13 at 7 PM
FEATURING NEW ORIGINAL SHORT FILMS BY
Mad King Thomas and Katinka Galanos
Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
Justin Jones and Kevin Obsatz
Mandy Herrick and Dustin Nelson
Katie Ritchey and Garrett Tiedemann
Erica Pinigis
Megan Mayer and Kevin Obsatz
FILMS INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY
Laurie Van Wieren
Sally Rousse of James Sewell Ballet
Anna Marie Shogren
Charles Campbell of Skewed Visions
Kristin Van Loon of Hijack
Elliott Durko-Lynch
…among others.
The evenings’ events will also include:
April Sellers’ multi-media duet “Women Bathing”
and musical group To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie will perform after the screenings Saturday Dec. 13.
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
http://www.intermediaarts.org
For map and directions click here
Parking is available in the Intermedia Arts lot on the north side of the building
Tickets: $8 – $12 sliding scale
(available at the door) General Admission
Show a Cinema Revolution store receipt at the door and get $2 off ticket price.
Parental Advisory: This performance contains nudity and may not be suitable for children
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In anticipation and celebration of Cinema Revolution’s fifth anniversary, store owner and filmmaker John Koch hosted an open call last April for filmmakers and choreographers to come together and create original short works for the camera or for live performance and camera. Koch proposed that the participants explore the expressiveness of dance through a cinematic language placing themselves in site-specific contexts and focusing on the various structures of time.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
April Sellers (Sage Award honoree for Outstanding Performance 2005) will restage her multi-media duet, “Women Bathing,” which reveals the female form in 17-gallon metal washtubs. “Women Bathing,” originally created with support by the Minnesota State Arts Board, will feature video by Kelly Radermacher, original music composition by Michael O’Brien, and performances by Kelly Radermacher and Pam Plagge.
DANCE FILM DESCRIPTIONS
“Reverb“ by director Katie Ritchey and filmmaker Garrett Tiedemann. Four women search the echoes of space and time. While compelled forward through programmed behaviors and a maintenance of group dynamics an underlying curiosity keeps them tracing peripheries of unknown origin. Photo by Garrett Tiedemann.
“4-Frame Dance Project“ by choreographer Justin Jones and filmmaker Kevin Obsatz. Obsatz runs four digital cameras simultaneously, each facing in toward the center of a square to capture a single choreography and displayed on the screen simultaneously in a four-square layout. The dance relates to the placement of the cameras, resulting in disorienting and surprising effects produced by this particular method of capturing and displaying choreography. The technique is repeated by 8 different dancers each giving their unique take on the perspective. Featuring performances by Justin Jones, Anna Shogren, Laurie Van Wieren, Mad King Thomas (Theresa Madaus, Tara King, Monica Thomas), Charles Campbell, Kristin Van Loon, Elliott Durko-Lynch and Megan Mayer. Photo by Kevin Obsatz.
“Coarse Confluence“ by choreographer Megan Mayer and filmmaker Kevin Obsatz. Megan Mayer, a dance artist/choreographer and photographer based in Minneapolis, is the solo performer in this site-based dance film, which is the result of an interest in the intersection between movement and film. Megan performs in an array of natural landscapes, her dance interacting with and reflecting upon her surroundings. Photo by Kevin Obsatz.
“throne/thrown“ conceptualized by choreographer/director Vanessa Voskuil and filmmaker John Koch. Taking its impetus from W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” “throne/thrown” explores the search for the position in one’s life by which to conduct one’s authority over it. Directed and conceived by Vanessa Voskuil (2006 Sage Award for Outstanding Design) and John Koch (Cinema Revolution store owner and filmmaker), “throne/thrown” strives to create a frenetic, visually compelling, and cinematically moving experience. Photo by John Koch.
“Alongside Sympathetic Neurons“ by choreographer Mandy Herrick and filmmaker Dustin Nelson. Herrick and Nelson explore site-based dance, investigating particular locations and how they can be perceived differently through changing the typical movement, behavior, time, and perspective of each site. The exploration and movement inspired by the body-site, within the context of a geographical-site, illustrates a parallel in both body and place. Photo by Dustin Luke Nelson.
“Cuddle“ by choreographer/filmmaker Erica Pinigis. Stop-motion is used to show the dance of two lovers lying together, suspended in black space and bound by a single bed sheet, as their bodies intertwine, merging, coming apart and back again, exploring the movement and gesture of romantic love.
“I’ll be on the dock in a minute“ choreographed and conceived by Mad King Thomas and filmmaker Katinka Galanos. Sally Rousse, co-founder of James Sewell Ballet, stars in this semi-biographical dance, filled with both truths and fictions about her life. Sally tells a story about being run over by a truck when she was a small girl, featuring peculiar and fantastic interview footage mixed with live-action reenactments/re-interpretations of the events. The following themes are informing the work: the scale of human bodies (over time and between individuals), rewriting history, investigating the function of truth vs. fiction, and the dynamics of tangential conversations.
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