DANCE on CAMERA Film Screening OCT 11
VCU Department of Dance and Choreography will present the DANCE on CAMERA film screening, Tuesday, October 11, 2011, at 8:00 pm at the Grace Street Theater, 934 West Grace Street, in Richmond. Tickets are $8/$5 students and are available at the door. More information at 804-828-2020.
This year's screening will feature Restaging "Shelter", a documentary that follows the distinct creative process of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the Urban Bush Women in setting the master work Shelter on VCU Dance majors. "Shelter", created by Urban Bush Women founder Zollar in 1988, is considered an "American Masterpiece" by the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded in part the re-creation of the work at VCU Dance last year. This documentary, directed by Bruce Berryhill and VCU Dance Professor Martha Curtis, features rehearsal and performance footage and interviews with Zollar, as well as Urban Bush Women company members and the students themselves.
The program also includes six short films from five countries, selected from the New York Dance Films Association Dance on Camera Festival 2011 and representing a wide range of approaches to the hybrid art form of screen dance.
From Canada comes Marites Carinos' HOOP. Everyone carries a hula-hooping memory. In Hoop, the viewer's perspective of the childhood toy shifts when the floor is pulled away. Made with the support of Bravo!FACT and EMPAC.
Carmen Rozestraten directs AFTER THE WATER THE CLOUDS from the Netherlands, which depicts the playful and poetic voyage of a young Catalan woman whose world becomes surreal as she encounters mythical and unusual characters.
Nominated for a Jury Prize, Rannvá Káradóttir's BOW, from the Faroe Islands, emerged after artists from the UK, Belgium, Faroe Islands/Denmark, China, and Malaysia participated in a cross cultural exchange project motivated by notions of bowing; metaphorically, culturally and physically. The shadows, light and repetition in this short attempt to capture the birthing of movement ideas about folding and origami, rhythmic patterns and ritual during the studio process.
In Joe Cobden's SLOW DANCE (Canada), a young man and woman search for love, setting off a barroom brawl of balletic proportions. Made with the support of Bravo!FACT.
From the USA, Nadia Lesy directed FROM ROOSEVELT TO BROOKLYN featuring bullettrunners and freerunners climbing, jumping, diving and tumbling in their quest for beauty and adventure.
In Morleigh Steinberg's UNSUNG (Ireland), a pub session in Ireland, an unexpected guest, and the beauty of a Sean Nos song bring magic to an otherwise ordinary night out.
Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes's THERE IS A PLACE soloist Sang Jijia, a stunning ethnic Tibetan born in Gansu, who studied choreography under William Forsythe and became the Resident Artist of Beijing Dance and Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 2007.
Dance on Camera is the second event in the 2011-2012 VCU Dance season. The presenting program of VCU Dance is committed to building and engaging dance audiences in the University and Richmond community while providing opportunities for artists to present and create work. Funding for the 2011-2012 season is graciously provided in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; and the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project.
The restaging of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's "Shelter" at VCU Dance during 2010-2011 was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, which is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts sponsors performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across different art forms that reach large and small communities in all 50 states. In dance, this initiative supports the reconstruction or restaging of works that are artistically, historically, and culturally significant.
