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DCW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
Sunday, June 12, 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 19, 2:00 p.m.
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
Morleigh Steinberg, Ireland, 75 min, 2004
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.
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