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DCW AT REDCAT
(ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER)
IN THE WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL COMPLEX

631 West Second Street at Hope, Los Angeles
Tickets $15 for opening night $10 DCW members & CalArts
$10 for Saturday screenings $7 DCW members & CalArts
DCW members, please call or visit the box office for discounted
ticket price
Hours: Noon - 6 pm and two hours prior to curtain, Tuesday-Saturday
213-237-2800 www.redcat.org

Opening the fifth annual dance film festival at REDCAT with a program entitled International Collection of Dance on Screen, Dance Camera West continues its tradition of bridging the unique mix of film and dance communities in Los Angeles and around the world with an exploration of a hybrid genre that innovatively merges the aesthetics of performance and cinema. Contemporary work that uses the camera to expand the possibilities of composition and structure, these films literally push beyond the boundaries of dance, motion, rhythm, form and gravity. In presenting some of the genre’s most exotic experiments, DCW secures its place at the leading edge of an artistic movement that is continually reshaping and reinventing itself.

In addition to the three Dance on Screen programs, the opening weekend includes Countdown: Reflections of a Life in Dance, director Rachel Perez-Bitan’s documentary on the life of dance pioneer Rudy Perez, and featuring a Q&A moderated by writer Victoria Looseleaf.

Montevideoaki
Spain 2005/5:00
Director: Octavio Iturbe
Choreographer: Hiroaki Umeda
Employing an astonishing gestural vocabulary, choreographer Hiroaki Umeda explores the nature of ambiguity through a series of movements – both fluid and syncopated – that respond to the repetitive hammer-strokes of the sounds, images and editing. Filmed in Montevideo, Uruguay by Mexican director Octavio Iturbe, who is best known for his work with Belgium’s Ultima Vez.

Scratch
UK 2003/3:00
Director/Choreographer: Shelly Love
In Scratch, director/choreographer Shelly Love finds a woman stuck in time and memories.
Best Screen Choreography Award 2005 IMZ Dance Screen Brighton Festival

Dos Ambientes
Argentina 2004/15:00
Director/Choreographer: Rodrigo Pardo
A testimony of the artists’ universe that traces the stories of the inhabitants of a Buenos Aires apartment (including an Argentine tango and a Batman & Robin fight scene), Rodrigo Pardo creates an eloquent statement about the need for an artistic point of view. Selected from the Circuito Videodanza Mercosur DVD, a compilation of films from the following South American festivals: Festival Internacional de Video-Danza de Buenos Aires. Festival Dança em Foco. Brazil, and Festival Internacional de Videodanza del Uruguay

Dust
UK 1998/8:00
Director: Anthony Atanasio Choreographer: Miriam King
In a Butoh-influenced dance piece that traces the solitary journey of a stranded, long distance swimmer within a waterless world, Atanasio and King present a woman searching for the sea of her dreams in a struggle that eventually brings rain, regeneration and hope.
Made possible in part by South East Dance, National Dance Agency.
Best Screen Choreography Award 1999 IMZ Dance Screen Festival

Your Lights Are Out or Burning Badly
USA 2005/9:00
Director/Choreographer: Gaelen Hanson bio>
This 35 mm film features an emotionally charged solo dance performed by Director/Choreographer Gaelen Hanson with a powerful score by Seattle band KINSKI. Co-produced by The Film Company and 33 Fainting Spells with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

in-(site) sight
Sweden 2005/10:00
Director/Choreographer: Cristina Caprioli
Performed inside of an observatory by Thomas Caley, Director/Choreographer Cristina Caprioli’s explores the nature of telescopic focus using sharpness, perfection, bending, and spirals as her movement motifs.

Burnt
Germany 1997/15:30
Director: Holger Gruss Choreographer: Vera Sander
Gruss and Sander construct a story that moves between between reality and fantasy inside the atrium of a cool, modern office building where power and subjection, self deception and self assertion, are played out through a series of impossible encounters.
Winner of the SK-Kultur Foundation Cologne German Video Dance Production Award

Mendiolaza/El Escape
Argentina 2005/6:30
Director: Marilen Breuker Choreographer: Grupo Krapp
A series of bizrre encounters in an auto body shop featuring whimsical characters and South American folk music. Selected from the Circuito Videodanza Mercosur DVD, a compilation of films from the Festival Internacional de Video-Danza de Buenos Aires. Festival Dance em Foco, Brasil, and Festival Internacional de Videodanza del Uruguay.

Countdown: Reflections of a Life in Dance
USA
2005/60:00
Producer: Severo Perez
Director: Rachel Perez-Bitan
Choreographer: Rudy Perez
The one-hour documentary interweaves the re-staging of Rudy Perez’s signature work, “Countdown” (featuring Victor Quijada, a former student and Perez company member) with photographs, home movies, rare stock footage of New York and experimental films of the 1960’s to tell the story of the choreographer’s life and career. As interviews with dance critics, former dancers and collaborators give a context to Perez’s impact on the East and West Coast dance scenes, and archival videos showcasing significant selections from his extensive body of work, the film culminates with Quijada’s emotionally charged performance of “Countdown.”

Q & A Moderator Victoria Looseleaf is an arts journalist and regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Reuters and Performances Magazine. She is this year's recipient of a special achievement Lester Horton award, “Furthering the Visibility of Dance.”

Tremor
UK 2005/4:00
Director: Ravi Deepres
Choreographer: Wayne McGregor
A fusion of sound, space and physical control set in a wind tunnel, Tremor is a sound-driven film where a dancer becomes physically charged by bass and low frequency noise. In response to the sounds, the dancer’s movement intensifies until it reaches a frenetic state in which the body can no longer sustain itself.
Produced by MJW Productions for Channel 4 and Arts Council England

Cartographie 3/Interface
Switzerland 2004/14:00
Director: Pierre-Yves Borgeud Choreographer: Philippe Saire
One part of a six 6 part series of choreographic investigations in the urban landscape of the city of Lausanne, Cartographie searches for new ways of printing bodies on landscapes as it creates fresh identities for urban spaces.
Sections 2 and 5 will screen June 10th in the Hammer Museum Courtyard.

LineAge
USA 2005/7:00
Director/Choreographer: Jody Oberfelder
Contrasting the lines of the body with lines in the landscape – the imprints of time in nature and human nature -- LineAge is shot by Bessie Award winning cinematographer Ronald K. Gray, and features 80 year old Martha Myers, a renowned dance educator who breathes with the lineage of the dance community.

Another
Iceland 2005/25:00
Director: Rene Vilbre Choreographer: Helena Jonsdottir
Shot on location in Estonia’s Tartu Prison where, since opening in November 2001, at least four intimate relationships have developed between guards and prisoners. Director Rene Vilbre and Choreographer Helena Jonsdottir ask “Who is the real prisoner? The one who is locked in a cell, or the guard who, despite all the possibilities to shape one’s own destiny, constantly hesitates to make a necessary decision?”
Produced by Estonian Television, Mypocket Production and Estinfilm with support from EBU TV Development Foundation and Estonian Film Foundation.

Coldspot
Canada 2005/6:00
Director/Choreographer: Naomi Stikeman
In Coldspot, Naomi Stikeman presents the sublime versus the mundane as one woman rebels against the tedium of her daily routine. After an apologetic boyfriend leaves a phone message pleading for them to “talk things over” and then returns home later that night, Claire becomes completely bored with talking and dances for him instead. Dramatic at heart, she makes her entrance and exit from a refrigerator.
Produced by 48Media Inc., funding support by BravoFACT, Canada

NOTE: This program contains adult content and is not suitable for children under 13.

No Man’s Land
Canada 2005/7:00
Director: Alex Oktan Choreographer: Peter Chin
Torn between two voices, a man struggles to find inner peace through a movement conversation.
Funding support by BravoFACT, Canada and ACIC (Aid to Canadian Independent Cinema)



POD
UK 2005/3:00
Director/Choreographer: Shelly Love
In Shelly Love’s POD, four people investigate an odd black substance that drips from a hole in the wall. A strange and disturbing sound comes from a hole in the wall of a hospital waiting room. Building in intensity, it drives the residents and staff crazy as one of the characters attempts to block it as a very bizarre event unfolds.

Astragalus
Spain 2004/10:00
Director: Toni Vidaecha Choreographer: Olga Sasplugas
Astragalus presents a world within a world, a never-ending loop that takes you back to the very place you are trying to escape with nowhere to hide, and where the first thing you pack when you try to leave is yourself. Winner of VideoDansa 2004, Spain

Blush
Belgium 2005/52:00
Director/Choreographer: Wim Vandekeybus
Executive Producer: Bart van Langendonck
Performed by Vandenkeybus and Ultima Vez, Blush mixes confrontational, intensely physical dance, theatre, text and music in an explosion of visual imagery and sound. Love in all its states - lust, temptation, exhilaration and shame - is its subject as the performers transform into wild animals, lost Eurydices and raging Furies. Music by Denver's David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand. Festival de Cannes 2005 Acid selection.

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