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DCW AT REDCAT

631 West Second Street at Hope, Los Angeles
$15 for opening night $10 DCW members & CalArts
$10 for Saturday screenings $7 DCW members & CalArts

DCW members, please call or visit box office for discounted ticket price
Hours: Noon – 6pm and two hours prior to curtain, Tuesday - Saturday

213-237-2800 redcat.org
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Dance Camera West opens its festival at REDCAT Theater in downtown LA during the first weekend in June, with Screendance: A New Visual Language – An International Collection of Dance on Screen.  Opening night screening and party will be held on Friday evening, June 1st starting at 8:00pm followed by two different programs on Saturday, June 2nd at 6:00 and 8:00pm. Focusing on the collision of movement and cinema, these three programs showcase the most innovative examples of this new visual language of dance on screen from around the world.

Using the newest technology in media to push the boundaries of gravity and stretch our perception of dance and movement, the REDCAT programs present 21 of the latest experiments between movement-based art and audiovisual media from nine countries: Russia, France, Spain, Canada, Slovenia, Australia, UK, New Zealand and the US.

10 Exhalations (Russia, 2006) 2:30 mins.
Director: Roman Kornienko, Maria Sharafutdinova
Choreographer: Alexander Andriyashkin, Alexandra Elchaninova
10 snapshots of a couple’s relationship
Production by David Hinton’s Workshop, Kinodance Festival, St. Petersburg.

Corps et Instruments (Canada, 2006) 6:40 mins.
Director: Alex Geng
Choreographer: Danielle Desnoyers
Sound and movement are linked in this film of energetic elegance and high heels.
Screened at American Dance Festival, and Moving Pictures Festival Toronto.

Gun (Canada, 2006) 6:50 mins.
Director: Mark Adam
Choreographer: Bill Coleman
A Tragic Comedy exploring an age-old male fascination – ¬Guns Baby! Need ‘em, want ‘em, got ‘em. While this choreography has a sarcastic presentation, the underlying message is a tragic one, we (male humans) are enamored with our weapons. We codify, glorify and choreograph their use and love the power they give us. We feel cool, safe and empowered holding them. From the military drill, the Wild West, Al Capone, Rappers and Gangstas all are variations on a theme; Gun as Culture.
Funding: Bravo!FACT Canada

Bórrame Mucho (Spain, 2005) 10:00 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Gemma Graells and Merce Moreno
A metro station, a public transitioning space in constant flux where for one woman, time stands still, a moment of consciousness and freedom suspended in time.
Screened at Dance on Screen, London, TV3 Catalonia and Tensdanse.
Produced by NU2’s Associacio por la Creacio and TV3

Pavillon Noir (France/Switzerland, 2006) 24:00 mins.
Director: Pierre Coulibeuf
Choreographer: Angelin Preljocaj
In a constructivist manner and inspired by the spaces of architect Rudy Ricciott’s dance center the Pavillon Noir, a game of structural oppositions including transparency and opacity; interior and exterior are explored.
Production by Regards Productions (France), Fine Arts Unternehmen (Switzerland).

Minotaur-Ex (France, 2001) 9:00 mins.
Director: Bruno Aveillan
Choreographer: Philippe Combes
Inspired by the Greek myth the three faces of amonster who, forlorn inhis condition, tries to find a way out through a metamorphosis of his being.
Produced by Quad Production. Award: Projections d’Argile, France, 2004.

Flight (Canada, 2004) 5:20 mins.
Director: Guillaume Paquin-Boutin
Choreographer: Patrick Lamothe
As a moth's fatal attraction to a light bulb at night, Flight is the metaphor of man, drawn from darkness to the lights of knowledge and, eventually, to the knowledge of his own, inevitable death. Funding: Bravo!FACT Canada
Screened at Pas de danse, pas de vie! (Montreal) 2007

Les Souvenirs (France, 2005) 5:45 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Pipo Tafel
A young man wakens on the steps of a church and begins a journey down the seemingly endless stairway where memories of his past occur.
Screened at the International Videofestival, Bochum, Germany

Breathe Me (USA, 2006) 9:00 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Carmen Rozestraten
This exquisitely shot film takes us on the hypnotic voyage of a beautiful young woman through a playful collage of broken dreams.
Screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival, Dance on Camera, NYC.

Gold (UK, 2004) 10:00 mins.
Director: Rachel Davies
Choreographer: Hanna Gillgren
Set in an ordinary London suburb, GOLD creates a surreal and sensual world, a celebration of motion, energy and the rich elegance of human movement, evoking the promise of freedom and power of adrenaline of two young Olympic gymnasts.
Voted ‘Most Popular Overall Film’ at the 2004 Portobello Film Festival, and winner of the Grand Priz Award at the IMZ International Dance Screen Festival.
Commissioned by Arts Council England and produced by Polly Nash, Spectacle Productions.

Unfed (Australia, 2005) 6:30 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Jason Lam
…the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Elliot
Through textual, spatial and temporal fractures, this film physically and imaginatively evokes the hidden, inner landscape of our longing for connection, meaning and love.
Screened on ABC TV Australia, Berlin Interfilm, Jumping Frames, Hong Kong, and was a winner of the Competition Finals Zebra Poetry Film Award, Berlin, 2006.

Auto Erotica (Canada, 2006) 4:00 mins.
Director: Kenneth Sherman
Choreographer: Noam Gagnon
A pas-de-deux for man and machine. A tongue-in-check commentary on the sexualized relationships we have with cars, looks at the joy and irony of our on-going love affair with our vehicles. Funding: Bravo!FACT Canada
Top ten Short Film finalists at the Cannes Film Festival, and screened on Bravo FACT! Canada, 2006 Vancouver Queer Film Festival, WSFF 2006, 2006 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and Nouveau cinema 2006.

Afternoon of the Chimeras (Canada, 2006) 16:00 mins.
Director: Daniel Conrad
Choreographer: Aszure Barton
This visually lush 35 mm film, built like a fugue in ten movements, explores the theme of human transformation, as dancers transform into various chimeras (like mythological creatures such as minotaurs or centaurs). It was shot in the extreme isolation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, where the cast and crew survival-camped for a month. Screened at Montréal World, Valladolid, Bilbao, New York Dance on Camera, Bravo, CBC, ZDF (Germany), SCN, and TVE.

Break (UK, 2005) 4:45 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie
In the wilderness of Dungeness, where the natural and the nuclear meet for small talk, Master Thomas is taking the air. As he rambles he spies something unusual and decides to investigate.
Produced by Caroline Freeman for MJW Productions and commissioned by Channel 4 and Arts Council England. Broadcast on Channel 4 UK, and screened at Festivals in 2006 including Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche; ADF Screendance, North Carolina; Kinodance, St. Petersburg; Livescreen, London; Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester; Kinesthetic Kino, Minneapolis; Moving Pictures, Toronto.

Bleu (USA, 2006) 4:00 mins.
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.

Flying Days (Canada, 2006) 5:50 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Pablo Diconca
A businessman on an elevator transforms under the watchful eye of the guard behind a security camera.
Produced and distributed by Productions Meakulpa. Screened at the festival du Noveau Cinema Montreal and the Festival Videodanza Buenos Aires.

Will Time Tell? (Australia/Japan, 2006) 12:30 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Sue Healey
When traveling, the perception of time is invariably altered. This is a short story of an Australian in Japan. Every frame is choreographed with rhythm and duration in mind.

Together (Australia, 2003) 7:00 mins.
Director: Madeleine Hetherton
Choreographer: Rowan Marchingo
A man enters a house and is confronted by memories from the past and eventually of what he needs to leave behind.
Screened at: American Dance Festival, Il Coreografo Electronico, Naples, Reeldance Sydney, Video Dance, Greece, Monaco Dance Festival, Woodford Film Festival,

Sporting Life (Canada, 1999) 6 mins.
Director: Michael Downing
Choreographer: Julia Sasso
A unique hallucinatory vision of contemporary society rooted in rich Faulknerian darkness and comic confusion this work for five dancers explores issues of aggression and violence. Funding: Bravo!FACT Canada
Outstanding New Choreography Nomination, Dora Mavor Moore Awards 1997

Break (New Zealand, 2005) 14:00 mins.
Director/Choreographer: Shona McCullagh
Set in rural New Zealand, a depressed mother makes the difficult decision to leave her son and partner. Awards: Dance on Camera (NYC), and Reeldance, Australia).

Dom Svobode (Slovenia, 2000) 30:00 mins.
Director: Saso Podgorsek
Choreographer: Iztok Kovac
Composer: Thierry DeMey
In the post-industrial Slovenian town of Trbovlje, a company of dancers set out to overcome the gravity of a vertical stone wall. The camera joins in this impossible task, and the result is an act of breathtaking defiance against the banalities of life.

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