Posts Tagged ‘screenings’

Opening May 18th, 2012 at the New York’s QUAD Cinema,  the award winning dance documentary NEVER STAND STILL starts its theatrical release.

This 74 minute documentary directed by Ron Honsa explores the pleasure, self-control, and courage one face’s when choosing a life in dance.  Live performances documented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, interviews with exceptional artists, rare archival footage, and behind the scenes footage brings the world of dance alive, as NEVER STAND STILL visits the iconic international nexus for dance: Jacob’s Pillow.  Winner of Best Documentary at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles, this remarkable dance film will be followed by openings in Los Angeles and additional cities.

Upfront and personal interviews offer an inside look at leading choreographers and dancers lives: Suzanne Farrell, one of the greatest ballerinas in the world; Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin; celebrated dancer Rasta Thomas; former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo star Frederic Franklin; creative and imaginative Mark Morris; and Merce Cunningham, in one of his last interviews.

Narrated by Bill T. Jones, NEVER STAND STILL Features Amazing Performance Footage
& Candid Conversations w/Luminaries of Dance
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On Sunday May 6th 2012, a crowd of 100+ people came out to The Wild Project in the East Village for a screening and dance extravaganza by the Girl Walk//All Day community.

Opening the show was a performance by the flex group Street’s Finest with a guest appearance by Anne Marsen (star of Girl Walk//All Day). Sporting new pink hair, Anne danced fiercely along side the six guys in the group, who popped, locked, and dropped it as soon as they walked onto the stage. In black preppy outfits with red sneakers, they danced to some of today’s hottest songs including Ellie Goulding, Starry Eyed. In between each song mix, a comedic voice would transition into the next song keeping the audience members on their toes. Throughout the performance were movements of slow motion, acrobatics, tutting, and freestyle clumps. One particular moment that stood out was when one male dancer supported all of his weight from his arms while being on top of another partner’s back. The audience embraced the high energy of this group with their comedic styles and facial gestures. At the end everyone got to their feet to applaud. Who knows maybe we will see them on America’s Best Dance Crew?! Read the rest of this entry »

Anthology Film Archives presents an event celebrating the book release of FLESH INTO LIGHT: THE FILMS OF AMY GREENFIELD by ROBERT HALLER on Monday, April 30th 2012 at 7pm.

The event includes a screening of Greenfield’s pioneering cine-dance and video-dance works that span 40 years and features the premiere of BODYSONGS, a work commissioned by WGBH TV in 1979 and made in collaboration with cinema verité filmmaker Richard Leacock. At the time Greenfield and Leacock shot a clothed version and a nude version of their film, but both ended up being banned from broadcast. When Leacock passed away in 2011, Greenfield revisited the nude video dance footage, restored it on today’s technology, and found in it a new concept of timeless nude duets as moving image art: BodySongs.

Other films on the program include MUSEic Of The BODy (2010), edited from Greenfield’s 1994 multimedia performance with video art pioneer Nam June Paik, the underground classic Element, and Wildfire from Greenfield’s acclaimed Club Midnight film cycle.

Greenfield and Haller will be present to answer questions and sign Flesh into Light at the reception following the screening.

In Flesh Into Light, Haller articulates the essential principles of cine-dance through Greenfield’s films, which re-invent dance as fundamental human motion not just for the camera, but as and inseparable from cinema. “For Greenfield, the body moving with and against the close-up camera can be the concrete image of inner human nature, an instrument for its expression and a vessel containing images and actions that crystalize the meanings and mysteries of experience: movement and memory, the past and the present moment.” – Robert Haller, Flesh Into Light

Admission is $9. No reservations required.

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. (@ 2nd Street)
Manhattan, New York.

Click here for more information on tickets.

Also of Note: Amy Greenfield will be present at Movement Media’s next Kinetic Cinema event on May 7th at Uniondocs, screening her film Wildfire and taking part in the discussion.

Girl Walk // All Day, a music video of epic proportions will be coming to New York, NY Sunday May 6th 2012 for a screening at The Wild Project in the East Village. There will also be a special dance performance by Flex group, Streets Finest.  Tickets are available here.

Additional screenings will be added to their website in the next few weeks, check the events page for a screening near you.

Check out one of their latest videos featuring  Flex group, Streets Finest.

The Dance Film Association (DFA) is inviting all members of DFA and Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) to submit films for their upcoming Dance Film Lab.* The next moderated screening is 7:30pm April 25, 2012 at Dance New Amsterdam Studio 5, 280 Broadway (entrance at 53 Chambers St.) New York, NY 10007 .

To submit:  Please e-mail brighid (at) dancefilms.org with DFL Screening in the subject line and include the following:

1) Artist(s) name
2) Contact E-mail
3) Title
4) Length
5) State of development (raw footage, rough-cut, final edits, etc.)
6) One sentence description

For futher questions please visit their website or call 212. 727. 0764

*Only DFA and DNA members may submit to screen their work. Screenings selected on a first come first served basis. Each Moderated Screening will include 4 works. All screeners must be on DVD and can not exceed 10 minutes.