The Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles Celebrates L.A. Dance with the Los Angeles Dance Festival & Dance Camera West: Dance From LA, Off the Stage & Onto the Screen In response to the cancellation of live events during the pandemic, the City of Los Angeles invited these two local dance organizations to create online programs that highlight the innovation of Los Angeles dance makers. Bringing together two programs, one both documenting and re-crafting the stage works of the Los Angeles Dance Festival produced : Brockus Dance Project, and a second a program featuring films presented at the 2020 Dance Camera West festival.
Dance Camera West 2020 – Los Angeles Films:
Cielo Short, Director: Will Johnston, 9:14
If I Sound Happy, That's Your Mistake Short, Director: Derrick Belcham, Choreographer/Performer: Matilda Sakamoto, 11:59
A woman feeling a growing disconnect from the world attempts to reach out with renewed vulnerability, but the rejection, comparison and confusion that ensue end up causing a greater sense of loneliness.
Family Portrait Short, Director/Choreographer: Jingqiu Guan, 10:44
Confronting conflicting values, a young woman returned to her home country to rediscover what has shaped her own beliefs : tracing different lessons bestowed to her from her grandmother, her father and her son.
Wounded, Not Conquered Experimental Short, Director, Troy Brieser, Performer/Choreographers Sally O’Grady, 2:49
An abstract dance performance film about the selves we reveal online, and what the true nature of authenticity means in an environment where words and images are robbed of their original meaning.
Save Your Self Narrative Short, Director: Craig Baurley, Choreographer: Lydia Purves-Ware, Perfomer: Anne-Marie Talmage, 5:30
After attempting a world flight, and ditching over the pacific, the lone female pilot finds herself amidst feral beings stalking her in the shadows of Bikini Atoll, a radioactive island. These beings telepathically manipulate her thoughts and movement; generating a deranged dance as she battles to gain control of her wits.
One Another Director: Kevin Frilet, Choreographer: Julie Bour, 7:54
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Los Angeles Dance Festival
The LADF films choreography highlighting the changes when a piece is seen live vs in edited were created in a pandemic at Brockus Project Studios as a tiny sample of LA choreography. Dances created with safety in mind as solos shot in studio with items on hand part of LADF choreography highlighting the changes when a piece is seen live vs in edited dance film. This Brockus Project Dance Company event is supported in part : The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Spirit Framed, Choreographer/Performer: Raymond Ejofor
Music : Bensound; Director of Photography : Patrick Mignano, Hurricane Deck Productions; Set Design : Partick Mignano; Costume : Patrick Mignano; Editor: Patrick Mignano
An essay on structural elements of design and how the physical world related to and influences each individual.
Drift, Inner Landscape, Choreographer: Deborah Brockus, Performer: Julienne Mackey,
Director of Photography: Patrick Mignano, Hurricane Deck Productions, Set Design and Costume: Deborah Brockus, Editor: Patrick Mignano, Hurricane Deck Prodcutions
A section of a work contemplating the inner space of our minds and memory. Events and emotions that we often cover up in dusty attics to revisit later. Emotions and events that leave traces and scars that we work with every day.
Refesh, Choreography/Performer : Olivia Perez
Music: I like Summertime : Gregg Young, Performed : Gregg Young & the 2nd Street Band, Shore Records, Gregg Young Music ASCAP ©℗®, Director of Photography : Patrick Mignano, Hurricane Deck Productions, Set Design : Deborah Brockus, Costume : Olivia Perez, Editor: Deborah Brockus
A work about joy and happiness through movement set to Long Beach’s well know musician, Gregg Young and the 2nd Street Band.
Perspective, Choreographer/performer: Charlotte Smith
Director of Photography: Glyn Gray Stir Studios, Set design: Charlotte Smith, Music: Zac Greenberg, Editor: Glyn Gray,,Stir Studios, Costume: Charlotte Smith