Schedule & Tickets
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE June 1-25, 2005
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DCW AT REDCAT (ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER)
IN THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL COMPLEX
Wednesday June 1, 8:00 p.m.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s VIEWS ON CAMERA
(Festival Premiere)
631 West Second Street at Hope, Los Angeles
Tickets $10 call 213-237-2800 www.redcat.org
DCW AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S MAX PALEVSKY THEATRE AT THE AERO
Sunday, June 5, 5:00 p.m.
WEST SIDE STORY with Special Guests
1328 Montana Ave at 14th St., Santa Monica, CA
Tickets General $9, Student/Senior $7, AC Member $6.
There are no presale tickets for this screening. Tickets can ONLY be
purchased on the day of the screening. The box office is open at noon at the
Aero Theatre.
www.americancinematheque.com
DCW AT FRIDAY NIGHTS AT THE GETTY
Friday June 10, 7:30 p.m. - SOLD OUT!
CARMEN & GEOFFREY with Carmen de Lavallade in attendance.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
DCW AT REDCAT (ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER)
Friday June 17, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday June 18, 6:00 & 8:00 p.m.
DANCE SCREEN, 3 experimental short film programs
631 West Second Street at Hope, Los Angeles
Tickets $10; call 213-237-2800 www.redcat.org
DCW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
FREE Admission, 310-443-7000 or www.hammer.ucla.edu
Sunday, June 12, 2:00 p.m.
HEIGHT OF SKY Oguri
Q&A with filmmaker Morleigh Steinberg and Oguri
Sunday, June 19, 2:00 p.m.
ALONZO KING GOES TO VENICE
BELATED PREMIER
DCW at JAPAN AMERICAN THEATER PLAZA
Friday June 24, 8:30 p.m.
EZTV with Loretta Livingston & Dancers in performance
Tickets: $20 General Admission/$15 JACCC & DRC Members/$10 Students & Seniors
For more info on tickets call the Box Office at 213-680-3700
DCW AT TREEPEOPLE
Saturday June 25, 8:30 p.m.
DANCE SCREENS, NEW ARCHITECTURE, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Tickets $10 and parking $5, children Free, 8:30 to 11:00 p.m.
TreePeople at Coldwater Canyon Park, 12601 Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills at Coldwater Canyon Blvd above Studio City, TreePeople directions and information available at www.treepeople.org Buy tickets online>
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS:
DCW AT REDCAT
ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER
IN THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL COMPLEX
Wednesday June 1, 8:00 p.m.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s VIEWS ON CAMERA
Director: Charles Atlas. Choreography: Merce Cunningham. Music: John Cage. Costumes: James Hall.
Merce Cunningham was one of the first choreographers to create dance originally for film, instead of adapting choreography first created for the stage. He had realized that film and television have a completely different use of space than the stage and decided to collaborate with a filmmaker, Charles Atlas, to create dances particularly for that kind of space. Since the 1970s, Merce created eleven (11) film dances with filmmakers-in-residence (Charles Atlas then Elliot Caplan) and the documentaries Cage/Cunningham (1991) and CRWDSPCR (1996) with Elliot Caplan. Merce has returned to film in the last few years and recently finished Views on Camera with collaborator Charles Atlas who also made the film Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2000). Their newest new work, Views On Camera, with music by John Cage and costumes by James Hall was created in two forms and was shot on location in New York City this past August. Also, on the program will be Channels/Inserts (1983 25 min) and a preview of work in progress Views on Video (9 mins.)
DCW AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE'S
MAX PALEVSKY THEATRE AT THE AERO
Sunday, June 5, 2005 5:00 p.m.
WEST SIDE STORY with Special Guests
What is it that makes West Side Story still so beloved and appealing to
generations of audiences after all these years? Many see it as showing
dance at it's ultimate "the way dance should be filmed" says Joanne DiVito,
Career Transitions Center for Dancers. DCW gives audiences another
opportunity to rediscover the magic of West Side Story and meet some of the
people who helped make it. Some of the original cast members from The
Sharks and The Jets including Bobby Banas, Carole D'Andrea, George Chakiris,
Maria Jimenez Henley, Russ Tamblyn, Gina Trikonis, Tony Mordente, and Jaime Rogerswill be
on hand to discuss the making of the film and its lasting impressions.
DCW AT THE GETTY
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT THE GETTY
Friday June 10, 7:30 p.m. - SOLD OUT
Carmen & Geoffrey, special guest Carmen de Lavallade will introduce the film. Filmmaker Linda Atkinson will attend.
This heartwarming documentary is full of wonderful archival footage. It traces the careers of Carmen de Lavallade, a Horton trained dancer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer who set New York on fire as set and costume designer, painter, and man about town with productions such as The Wiz. Features interviews and performance footage of friends and colleagues: dancers Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons, Jr., Dudley Williams, Ulysses Dove and Alvin Ailey.
DCW AT REDCAT
(ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER)
IN THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL COMPLEX
Friday June 17, 8 p.m.
DANCE SCREEN, 3 experimental short film programs
Jomfrutur (Maiden Voyage), Vivild Bergersen, Norway, 6 min., 2004
A playful and challenging little film about a woman and a very red strawberry. What starts out as a harmless game develops into a dramatic situation. How does she cope?
Tongue Bully, Annie Bradley, Learie McNicolls, Canada, 5 min., 2004
Movement meets spoken word in this videopoem by dancer, actor, choreographer, writer, spoken-word performer and composer, Learie McNicolls. Shot on location in Havana, Cuba.
Mile>0<, Katrin Oettli, Tamara Stuart Ewing, Germany, 12 min., 1999
An experimental video dance film that considers the themes of falling and gravity. In a nightmarish scenario a dancer discovers her undoing on a steep slope. Tamara Stuart Ewing and Katrin Oettli explore life’s never-ending struggle to achieve and, in so doing, enter into Sisyphus’s world of perpetuity.
Reimerswaal, Clara van Gool, Suzy Blok, Netherlands, 8 min., 2004
The poem Reimerswaal by Gerrit Achterberg is the point of departure of this film about a crime of passion: a young man and a woman dance a fatal duet in and under water.
Mirror, Pontus Lidberg, Sweden,7 min. 19 sec., 2003
What would happen if we met ourselves as another, distinctly physical person? What happens when it is then revealed that this person is not the one we might have imagined? In an empty space, a dancer meets his mirror image and in their following duet he reveals his true self.
The Cost of Living, Lloyd Newson, UK, 34 min., 2004
David and Eddie are street performers struggling to get by in a seaside town. The Cost of Living follows them as they work, argue, fail at romance and fall out with old friends.
Saturday June 18, 6:00 p.m.
Departure, Mark Adams, Allen Kaedja, Canada, 7 min. 2003
A couple struggles to come to terms with their imminent separation because of impending war.
A Delicate Battle, Mark Adams, Canada, 17 min. 2004
Choreographer Mastjash Mrozewski explores power struggles in romantic relationships in a series of three duets.
At the Door, Liam Clancy, USA, 5 min. 2004
Explores the everyday ritual of saying goodbye and the infinite potential for change that a single moment contains. With two dancers, a doorway, a coat full of keys and 48 stairs, the film reveals how much unspoken faith it requires to say “goodbye” at the door as if it is some kind of guarantee.
Knock Knock, USA,11 min. 30 sec., 2005 Monica Gillette, Company of Strangers
Two strangers wrestle with an inconvenient attraction.
Soaring Wings (Veien ut), Lise Eger, Norway, 12 min. 2004
A woman’s search through life: through security and boundness, connected with EARTH and morning; through fantasy and greed, connected with AIR and day: through feelings and lust, connected with WATER and dusk: through determination and degradation, connected with FIRE and night.
Sugar and Snails, Kathi Prosser, William Yong, Canada, 5 min. 2004
Choreographer William Yong collaborated with Kristy Kennedy to explore the duality of human sexuality and the inherent search for identity.
Past Bedtime, Kristin Hauksdottir, Mariano Frumboli, Eugenia Parrilla Norway, 6 min. 2004
The quiet tango of a couple struggling to find time to be together.
Saturday June 18, 8:00 p.m.
No Waiting on an Angel, Hans Beenhakker, Netherlands, 8 min. 2003
Water a symbol of a liberated life and the path of self-realization with all the choices and decisions that path entails.
Cantique No. 1, Marie Chouinard, Canada, 15 min., 2003
Emerging from the depths of a black space, a man and a woman choose to meet. A dialogue of their breath and tongues, like strange, independent entities exiting from their mouths to engage in a dance of copulation. The faces of the man and woman, in profile, fill the entire screen, face to face in intense intimacy, without ever touching.
Bittersweet, David Rousseve USA, 16 min., 2005
Created in collaboration with Roberta Shaw. A dialogue on the word “bittersweet” - when the greatest of both joy and agony are experienced in a single moment - as a metaphor for the human condition.
Distemper, John Albanis, Canada, 5 min., 2004
Propelled by the grinding, distorted music of Amon Tobin, DISTEMPER relentlessly explores the concept of suffocation.
Ma Mere L’Oye, Theirry De Mey, Belgium, 28 min, 2005
Inspired by Charles Perrault’s famous fairy tales, the choreography was produced by choreographer-dancers invited to choose a character and create a dance sequence in the unusual setting of a forest. The plant world acts as an agent provocateur that helps inspire an original quality of movement in front of the camera. The film editing will use different formats: triptych, double screen, split screens, full screen...in order to link the dance sequences according to the musical motifs and orchestral moods.
DCW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
Sunday, June 12, 2:00 p.m.
HEIGHT OF SKY, Oguri
Morleigh Steinberg, Ireland, 2004, 75 min
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Morleigh Steinberg and dancer Oguri
After moving from the lush greenery of Japan to the arid city of Los Angeles, acclaimed Butoh dancer, Oguri, finds himself transplanted to a totally alien environment. Needing to find connection to this new place, Oguri embarks on a unique and personal journey, leading him into the stunning and unforgiving vastness of the California deserts. Having never seen a desert before, Oguri spends two years investigating his dance and his own identity as a Japanese dancer in America.
Sunday, June 19, 2:00 p.m.
ALONZO KING GOES TO VENICE
Dikayl, USA, 2004, 25 minutes
This moving and inspirational look at Alonzo King’s extraordinary dancers in their home rehearsal studio in San Francisco and as the Lines Contemporary Ballet Company goes on tour to perform in the prestigious Venice Bienniale festival of contemporary dance in 2004.
BELATED PREMIER
Victor Bocharov, Russia, 2003, 70 min. In Russian with English narration.
A film of great historic significance for both ballet and film animation,
Belated Premier tells a story that was unknown until 1995‹the story of
motion picture films made at the very beginning of the 20th century.
Director Victor Bocharov found a treasure trove of archival films made
almost a century ago by Alexander Shirayev (1867-1941), a well-known
character dancer at the Marinsky Theater and assistant to Marius Petipa.
Shirayev was an innovator whose attempts to film the ballets at the Theater
were officially denied. Shirayev was the first person in the world that
unified the previous experience of Russian character dance into a single
teaching system. He filmed documentaries, dances and play miniatures, and
animations and puppet productions, many of his film works are dated 1906 to
1908, all before the official birth of Russian cinematography.
DCW at the Artani/Japan America Theatre Plaza
June 24, 8:30 p.m.
EZTV with Loretta Livingston & Dancers
Premiere of June Moon (Dressed in White)
Celebrating the 25th year of EZTV’s video and digital art center, the 20th Anniversary of Loretta Livingston & Dancers and the 25th Anniversary of the JACCC.
Kate Johnson and Michael Masucci of EZTV collaborate with choreographer Loretta Livingston to create a site-specific dance, live music and video performance piece tailored to the specifics of the JACCC Plaza. Using her 7 company dancers and an extended cast of 17 women forming a "moon mudra" movement chorus,with video and projection designed to respond to the piece and environment, and live music composed by Alan Terricciano, Livingston utilizes various and existing structures and spaces in the JACCC Plaza, moving the performance events from place to place during the evening.
DCW AT TREEPEOPLE
Saturday June 25, 8:30 p.m.
DANCE SCREENS, NEW ARCHITECTURE, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT will be the theme behind this collection of twenty films shown in an outdoor screening experience. Displayed on surfaces integrated into the surrounding landscapes including the new sustainable architecture of TreePeople Center. This event features the famed installation piece from Bill T. Jones and Riverbed along with Thierry De Mey and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and other local and international artists. Supported in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
DCW gratefully receives funding in part through the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
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