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DCW AT CHEVIOT HILLS RECREATION CENTER
In the park – Outdoor screening
2551 Motor Ave, Los Angeles 90064
FREE Admission No reservations required 310-837-4233
Saturday, June 9, 8 pm
Local Makers – LA Choreographers and Directors
Come celebrate our local LA Makers!
Even though all the films have one thing in common - they were all created by Los Angeles-based choreographers and directors – they’re as diverse as the southern California landscape itself. The program presents everything under the sun (or moon in this case) during this family-friendly evening: From commercial work, to introspective artistic fare; internationally known cultural icons to emerging young artists; Academy Award winning films to academic offerings – this program alone represents more diversity in one night than the entire month’s festival. The park behind the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center will be transformed into a cinematic cross-cultural display with four different screening areas.
A perfect community event for family and friends on a summer evening, bring a flashlight and something to sit on and join in the fun at this FREE event for everyone. This project is supported in part, by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs with additional support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
Large Screen 1:
- Musical Loop:
West Bank Story (USA, 2006) 22:00
Director: Ari Sandel
Choreographer: Ramon Del Barrio
A musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands in the West Bank, David, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with the beautiful Palestinian cashier, Fatima, despite the animosity between their families' dueling restaurants. Can the couple's love withstand a 2000-year old conflict and their families' desire to control the future of the chic pea in the Middle East? ***Received Oscar for “Best Live Action Short Film” at 2007 Academy Awards ceremony.
I Hate Musicals (USA, 2006) 20:00
Director: Stewart Schill
Choreographer: Cate Caplin
Brad hates musicals. He really, really, really hates musicals. But his fiancé Melissa lives for them. His contempt for musicals threatens to tear them apart, until one night Melissa makes a wish, and Brad is horrified to discover that whenever he opens his mouth, he bursts into song! Produced by Eve Annenberg.
Large Screen 2:
- Urban Dance Loop:
Within (USA, 2007) 5:00
Director/Choreographer: Wade Robson
At the point of self-destruction, a young woman allows herself to experience an awakening.
 Krumped (USA, 2004) 20:00
Director: David La Chapelle
Choreographer: Rich and Tone Talauega
Inner city Los Angeles youth find a positive and creative outlet to keep them out of gangs and off the streets. Principal Dancer(s): Lil C, Miss Prissy, Dragon, Tight-Eyez, Baby Tight-Eyez, Larry, Tommy the Clown, Lil Tommy, Matrix, Swoops, Big X, Daisy, Quinnesha. The short film has screened at festivals all over the world including: Sundance, Telluride, Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, South by Southwest, Cinequest, Slamdance, Gineart, Tribecca, Aspen Film Fest, New York Film Fest, World Fest, Docfest, DOXA, Hotdocs, Int’l Doc. Amsterdam, Infact, Queerdoc and more.
(Arthur Pewty describes)The disclaimer at the start of the film states that none of the footage was sped up or altered. At first it seems ludicrously unnecessary, but soon it seems more like a lie... how can anybody move that fast?
The Paperboy (USA, 2004) 6:55
Director/Choreographer: Daniel Cloud Campos
The spirit of a young boy is trapped within the place of his death. He fights to find a way out of a second chance at life.
Sense of Place Loop
Shelter (USA, 2007) 27:00
Director: Kevin Kane
Choreographers: Kevin Kane, Jackelyn Lopez
The film explores displacement and survival through movement, gestural and abstract narrative. Features a multi-generational, multi-cultural cast of 22 performers.
 Solara (USA, 2007) 13:05
Director: Barry Walker
Choreographer: Shauna Walker
A group of people, from different walks of life are interrupted from their day-to-day life by their desires to make a difference. Slowly they are all drawn to the exact same location in the hot, Mojave desert. Once there, it becomes clear what they must do. With dynamic, languid movement and with an intense determination to connect with their environment and with each other, they collectively take a journey. As the energy builds, the winds pick up, the day slowly begins to pass, and the sweet reward of rain is showered. Solara is about the passions that move us, the energies that flow from us, and about the changes that occur thereafter.
Ascent (USA, 2006) 8:45
Director: Mariel McEwan
Choreographer: Maya Gingery and Mariel McEwan
Ascent explores a force opposite of gravity, opposite of complacency, a universal pull onward, forward, upward. The dancer represents our human resistance to this inevitable flow, her contortions complicating and slowing her progress as she resists an obvious pathway.
Art Gallery Loop 1:
restroom (USA, 2006) 5:04
Director/Choreographer: Lauren Thompson
“restroom” explores public restroom behaviors and rituals. Irritated women wait endlessly for an open stall. Two men form a relationship based on similar bathroom schedules. An eccentric woman wanders from restroom to restroom looking for the perfect stall. Everyone must have strange moments in the privacy of their own stall. “restroom” exposes these rarely seen occurrences.
This film was selected for the Beijing International Film Festival.
Subtle Dance (USA, 2006) 5:20
Director/Choreographer: Sebastian Peters-Lazaro
“Subtle Dance” is a piece created through improvisation on site at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Walking through crowded spaces, blinders on, aware of little past our arranged social sphere, muttering excuses with maybe the smallest look back, expecting nothing more than the mundane, someone begins a shift to a new awareness.
Delicious Tree (USA, 2006) 5:15
Director: Cari Ann Shim Sham
Choreographer: Jia Wu
A trio of spirits emerge from a tree, explore the living world, dance with trees and return back to the tree from which they came. Inspired by Eiko & Koma.
Art Gallery Loop 2:
Bleu (USA, 2006) 4:00
Director/Choreographer: Cari Ann Shim Sham
The naked body is seen as a moving art form using organic movement that brings to mind tensions and struggle. Post-it notes fly onto the dancer’s body to cover her up and act as armor, thus commenting on the overwhelming sense of to-do tasks that have become a social norm of our workaholic society. The film addresses how the heavy American workload and pace of life can literally affect, take over and cover the physical being. Produced by EyeStorm Productions
Saliendo (USA, 2006) 6:57
Director: Maria Gillespie, Kristy Tully
 Choreographer: Maria Gillespie
The movement language of this work winds its way through the physical and psychological mechanics of leaving. Saliendo is part memory, part dream-state; part prophecy; all tumbling together in a kinetic passage through moments of separation. It encapsulates the tranquility and catalytic nature of attachment and departure.
The Way (USA, 2005) 4:14
Director: Sarah Elgart
Choreographers: Oguri, Sarah Elgart
Plug Research recording artist Mia Doi Todd performs “The Way” from her newest album “Manzanita.” Performed against the historic urban backdrop of the LA River, with internationally renowned Butoh dance Oguri, “The Way” evokes a sense of hope amidst a post-apocalyptic world.
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