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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT A GLANCEWeekend at the Hammer
three programs over two days at the Hammer
June 12, 2010 4:30 & 7:00pm
June 13, 2010 7:00pm
Hammer Museum
Dancing Dreams (Photo credit: Ursula Kaufman)
Saturday - "Pina Bausch Celebration"
Pina Bausch, a master of transformative theater, surreal stagings and an incomparable brand of neo-expressionist dance, was one of the greatest dance artists of the last 40 years. Join us for a celebration with three West Coast film premieres taking an indepth look at the work and life of Pina Bausch.
Co-presented by the Goethe Institute.
SATURDAY JUNE 12, 4:30PM
Pina Bausch
From confused and irritated audiences to standing ovations worldwide, Pina Bausch shares stories of her journey in this documentary starting with forming her company Tanztheather Wuppertal in the early 1970’s to creating over 30 astonishing works. Directed by Anne Linsel. (Germany, 2006, 45 min.)
A Breath with Pina Bausch
Award-winning director Huseyin Karabey's high-caliber documentary provides unprecedented access into the creative process of one of modern dance's most compelling minds. A Breath with Pina Bausch was inspired by the city of Istanbul, the cosmopolitan centre that the Byzantine, Roman and the Ottoman Empires all called home. (Turkey, 2004, 45 min.)
** The Hammer Cafe will remain open until 7pm
Saturday June 12, 7:00pm
Dancing Dreams
The documentary centers around a group of high school students rehearsing for a performance of one of Pina Bausch's signature pieces, Kontakthof (Comfort Zone) a stylized presentation of the entanglements of the sexes. It is a dance about love, tenderness and feelings – always a huge challenge especially for a group of young untrained dancers. Bausch gently encourages the teenagers ‘to be themselves’ as they slowly transform their clumsy self-conscious attempts at body expression to graceful self-empowered movement. The year-long project chronicles a group of 40 teens as they face issues of self-esteem, cultural differences and emerging sexuality all the while in front of a camera or during the culminating stage performance.
(Germany, 2010, 89 min. director Anne Linsel)
SundayJune13, 7pM
SurREEL Moves Weird & Wonderful Experimental Dance Shorts
From poetic to peculiar, this collection of recent award-winning international dance shorts presents both kinetic and immobile bodies in space, defying traditional notions of dance. Sushi, reindeer, and a bright pink wig prevail in this evening of smart, cool and LOL ridiculous dance media. 6 Films 85 mins
Body Trail (Austria, 2009) 8 mins
Director: Michael Palm
Choreographer: Willi Dorner
Human bodies as sculptural forms, in orderly stacks and tangled knots, assimilate into the black and white urban landscape of Vienna at night.
The Geometry of Separation (Germany/France, 2009) 14 mins
Director: Mareike Engelhardt
Choreographer: Friedrike Plajke
A woman's inability to engage with the world outside drives her into the surreal spaces of her psyche translating on screen to a profusion of clever visual design.
Pink Navigator (Canada, 2008) 6 mins
Director: Naomi Stikeman
Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Provocative imagery explores the themes of birth, death, redemption, and the freedom found in connecting to one's body.
Running Sushi (Austria, 2008) 28 mins
DCW 2010 MOST INNOVATIVE AWARD
Director/ Choreographer: Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring
The naked chaos of human relationships, with extreme video game action, is viewed through an aquarium where everything is inside and everybody is at his or her own mercy.
- Winner of Dioraphte Jury Award 2009 Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam
Untitled Partner (Sweden, 2007) 7 mins
Director/ Choreographer: Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley
Through the use of hyperfast seemingly lightspeed video clips, airborne bodies depict the overlapping of the conscious and unconscious.
- Winner of 2009 VideoDansa, Barcelona International Prize
North Horizon (Finland, 2010) 22 mins
Director/ Choreographer: Thomas Freundlich and
Valtteri Raekallio
Against the seemingly still expanses of the Arctic tundra, bodies in motion echo forgotten dreams at the edge of the world.
