Archive for the ‘Kinetic Cinema’ Category
Kinetic Cinema Starts up Feb 4th with Dance On Camera Extended
Kinetic Cinema at CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
“Dance On Camera Extended”
presented in conjunction with CRS and the Dance Films Association
Saturday February 4th, 7pm
$10 Reservations
Every year, the Dance Films Association’s Dance on Camera Festival showcases films that highlight the relationship between movement and cinema. Hundreds of submissions are received, but only a few are able to be screened. For this special program we have selected some of our favorites that were not able to be shown this year, and will screen them as part of our first Kinetic Cinema event of 2012.
Program:
Let’s Dance, dir. Malia Bruker & Oscar Mollina
Let’s Dance is a sensual black and white film that captures the relief that art provides in everyday life. The couple’s physicality changes, senses are heightened, and passion aroused when leaving the mundane and joining one another in dance.
Head First, dir. & chor. Jody Oberfelder
Jody Oberfelder uses physical imagination and wit in Head First, showcasing a playful, colorful and acrobatic crash helmet brigade under the Manhattan Bridge.
For Water, dir. Natalie Metzger
A collaboration between dancers from Indonesia and America, For Water is inspired by the importance of water to the islands of Indonesia and to water-starved California. The film follows a pilgrimage of five spirits to a sacred place to perform their ritual for water.
Chromatic Revelry, dir. Evann Siebens
Chromatic Revelry juxtaposes the harmonic scale of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with the chaos of rave culture. Shot on Super 8 film in clubs and at raves, the piece is transhistorical, suggesting a timelessness to parties, celebration and dance.
Country Club, dir. Noa Shadur
Israeli choreographer Noa Shadur creates a modern musical parody in Country Club, capturing the possibility of adventure on what could be the most ordinary of days.
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
123 4th Ave, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10003 (map)
Two Sundays of Kinetic Cinema
Kinetic Cinema is back!
This Sunday choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke will present a screening and discussion at Moviehouse on the ways artists form relationships and navigate their personal lives and their art. The following Sunday dance filmmaker Zena Bibler will teach a down and dirty DIY dance film-making workshop at Green Space Studio in Long Island City.
Exploring Artistic Relationships
A screening and discussion with Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Moviehouse @ 3rd Ward
Sunday November 13th, 7pm Doors and Food, 8pm Screening
$5 suggested donation
In research for her new piece, Vandenbroucke’s program will examine artists’ relationships between personal partnership and artistic practice. From documentaries and films featuring New York based artists like Patti Smith and John Cage, freedom and commitment, presence and absence, public and private, mobility and stability will be questioned and the debate will be recorded.
3rd Ward (map)
195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
718.715.4961
events@3rdward.com
The One-person Crew: Techniques and strategies for getting it all done yourself
Kinetic Cinema Workshop with Zena Bibler
Green Space
Sunday November 20th, 3-6pm
$30 in advance, $35 at the door
Want to make a dance film but don’t know where to start? In this workshop filmmaker and choreographer, Zena Bibler will teach strategies for making dynamic films through use of camera positioning, perspective, rhythm, and movement composition. This workshop is especially geared towards dance filmmakers interested in filming and editing themselves. Register Now!
Green Space (directions)
37-24 24th St. Suite 301
Long Island City, NY 11101
718.956.3037
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Premieres BOUND and Curates Kinetic Cinema
Movement Media is proud to announce that on December 3rd, Kinetic Cinema will be curated by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a New York-based contemporary dance theatre company that has developed a unique process using Skype to create new work during the temporary relocation of Artistic Director Samar Haddad King to Palestine.
On October 21 & 22 the company will premiere their latest performance project, Bound at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, examining the lives of nine individuals living under occupation. For Kinetic Cinema, they will provide a demonstration of their unique working technique with Samar Haddad King live on Skype, along with a curated selection of videos related to Bound.
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre has been hailed as “awesomely athletic” by Chicago Stage Style, and “Like a ray of light coming out of the arid desert…leaving the audience mesmerized in their seats” by Hussein Daaseh, Al Rai. You can more about their long distance creative process in this article by Jennifer Edwards for the Huffington Post.
Here is a video about the making of Bound.
http://www.vimeo.com/29074203BOUND
October 21-22, 2011 at 7:30pm
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Mainstage Theater
31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City
7 Train to 33 St/ Rawson St
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 at the door / $10 Students
www.ysdt.org
Kinetic Cinema with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Saturday December 3rd, 4:30pm
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
123 4th Ave, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10003
212.677.8621
info@crsny.org
$10 suggested donation
Choreography for the Camera Workshop with Zach Morris
Good news!
We have extended the discounted early registration deadline for Zach Morris’s workshop, “Moving with Objects and Architecture: Choreography for the Camera and Site-Specific Dance”.
Information about the workshop and associated screening, as well as how to register is available on the Kinetic Cinema Page on the Pentacle Website, and below!
Kinetic Cinema @ Green Space
Workshop and Screening: Moving with Objects and Architecture
with Zach Morris
Choreography for the Camera Workshop
Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm
In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artist Zach Morris will lead participants through a process of creating site-specific movement works for the camera. A grab-bag of choreographic tactics focus on working with the architecture of a site to pull images and meaning from its components. Techniques for researching a site and exploring its possibilities in movement; finding hidden meaning in a space and developing methods to amplify it; and issues of staging, storyboarding, and choreographing for the camera will be introduced through a series of focused exercises.
$35 if registered by May 1st / $40 at door
Register here
Film Screening: Moving with Objects and Architecture
Tuesday May 17th 8-10pm
Join us for an evening of Dance for Camera curated by Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects and The Dance Film Lab. Films to be screened include Dirty Ho (Lan tou He); (Dir. Lau Kar-Leung, Contrecoup (Dir. Pascal Magnin), Rest in Peace (Chor. Hans Hof Ensemble; Dir. Annick Vroom), as well as footage from Casino Royale (Dir. Martin Campbell), Touch of Evil (Dir. Orson Wells) and Singing in the Rain (Dirs: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen).
$7 online / $10 at door
Reservations
Zach Morris is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer whose work includes site-specific performances, installation art, video and multi-media projects, and immersive performance environments. He is particularly interested in creating projects that place contemporary art and performance in non-traditional contexts.
Zach’s work has been seen internationally, at several theaters around the U.S. and at numerous venues in New York City. He is Co-Director of Third Rail Projects, an NYC arts organization dedicated to bringing art to the public through an array of media; organizer and moderator of the NYC Dance Film Lab; creator of the annual Steampunk Haunted House in New York City; and serves as adjunct faculty for Florida State University. Zach has a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.
Green Space, 37-24 24th St. Suite 301
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: 718-956-3037
Info@GreenSpaceStudio.org
Weekly Webdance: Duplicity
A Framework For New Habits (2010) Click this Image to view video
We had a great evening of multiplicity and duplication at Jillian Peña’s Kinetic Cinema Screening. Citing a background in competitive dance, Jillian described a desire to form a corps or chorus of herself. In her screening, The Double, we screened and discussed works that have inspired her, and that treat multiplicity in a variety of forms. I’d like to highlight one of the filmmakers, Josh Mannis, for our Weekly Webdance and ask the question – What does this duplicity achieve? Heinrich von Kleist described grace and self-consciousness in human movement as being mutually exclusive, unless the dancer is all-powerful.
Grace appears most purely in that human form which either has no consciousness or an infinite consciousness. That is, in the puppet or in the god. (On the Marionette Theater as translated by Idris Parry).
Where do these shorts stand on that spectrum? What does duplication reveal or obscure?
A Framework for New Habits (2010) is available for view on joshmannis.com
