Dance on Camera Film Festival NYC 2011

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Published on Friday, 28 January 2011 03:33

Written by Lynne Shannon

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the 39th annual Dance on Camera Film Festival running January 28 - February 1, 2011 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City, co-presented by Dance Films Association.

The Opening Night presentation is Claude Bessy, Lignes d’Une Vie / Traces of a Life, directed by Fabrice Herrault. “Described as the “Golden Silhouette” by Serge Lifar, French ballerina Claude Bessy was an admired etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet and ran its prestigious school for decades.” The screening is followed by a Q&A with Claude Bessy and Fabrice Herrault.

Claude Bessy also introduces the short film Reflections of the Dance / Les Reflets de la danse, directed by Nicolas Ribowski, which shows former students of Bessy, including Sylvie Guillem and Elisabeth Maurin, at the Paris Opera Ballet School.

Other screenings include:

Bödälä: Dance the Rhythm
dir. Gitta Gsell, who introduces the film.
A journey through tap dance, flamenco and Irish dance, Bödälä is a strictly Swiss rhythm, and the dancers re-imagine and re-invent various traditional dance forms.

All the Ladies Say
dir. Rokafella & Kwikstep
A showcase of female break-dancers Vendetta, Severe, Lady Champ, Aiko Shirakawa, Baby Love, and Rokafella, illuminating the triumphs and challenges of hip-hop culture.  Q&A follows with both directors.

Dancing Chaplin
dir. Masayuki Suo
Tamiyo Kusakari co-stars with internationally renowned dancer Luigi Bonino in an adaptation of Roland Petit’s ballet Chaplin Dances. The challenges of a three-way collaboration are filmed in this ballet inspired by Chaplin’s classic films.

Dancing Dreams / Tanz Traume
dirs. Anne Linsel & Rainer Hoffman
One of Bausch’s final projects was Kontakthof, for which Bausch selected 40 teenagers who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece. For ten months through opening night, filmmaker Anne Linsel, a longtime Bausch collaborator, followed the young dancers. A First Run Features release. Q&A with Linsel.

Flamenco Flamenco
dir. Carlos Saura
A thrilling performance by the flamenco masters Paco de Lucía, Manolo Sanlúcar, Tomatito and José Mercé, joined by newer talents Estrella Morente, Sara Baras, Miguel Poveda, Israel Galván, Rocío Molina, Eva Yerbabuena, Farruquito and Niña Pastori. With exquisite cinematography by the great Vittorio Storaro, under the direction of Spain’s foremost interpreter of the dance, Carlos Saura. Q&A with producers Carlos Saura Medrano & Javier Sanchez Garcia follow.

A New Dance for America
dir. Ina Hahn
A portrait of Doris Humphrey, the modern dance pioneer from Illinois. Humphrey created distinctly “American” dances and wrote an indispensable book on choreography, The Art of Making Dances. This documentary includes vintage archival footage and biographical material. Followed by a Q&A with the director.

Passion: Last Stop Kinshasa
dirs. Joerg Jeshel & Brigitte Kramer
Famed Belgian dance company Les ballets C de la B brought their dance opera Pitié! to the Congo, with Kinshasa as the final stop on their tour. The choreography is by Alain Platel, to a score by Fabrizio Cassol, who uses a contemporary adaptation of Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion.

Shall We Dance?
dir. Masayuki Suo
Koji Yakusho stars in this internationally acclaimed hit from 1997 as the successful but unhappy accountant who discovers the secret pleasures of ballroom dance with a beautiful dance instructor (Tamiyo Kusakari).

The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia
Inna Sahakyan & Arman Yeritsyan
Two 70-somethings, the most celebrated tightrope dancers in Armenia, hope that their only remaining student will keep their daring heritage alive.

Also screening are several excellent short films, introduced by their directors:

Ase
dir. Nicola Brooks
A celebration of the lives of African slaves in the Caribbean who managed to preserve their religious worship rituals.

Bow
dir. Rannvá Káradóttir
Five artists from the U.K., Belgium, Denmark, China, and USA/Malaysia created this short during the Asia Europe Dance Forum.

Hoop
dir. Marites Carino
Everyone has a a hula-hoop memory.

On the Sound
dir. Fred Baker
Three celebrated Martha Graham dancers take dance into the woods and onto the beach, to the jazzy Gryce suite titled The Rat Race.

Other shorts include:

Box, dir. Ivan Rubio
Two women resist/concede control in an arena of action.

Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê, dir. Carolina Moraes-Liu
Three women compete to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, wearing flowing African-style garments and performing traditional Afro- Brazilian dances and songs

Unsung, dir. Morleigh Steinberg
A Sean Nos song brings magic to an ordinary pub night.

2011 Jury Winners will be announced on Tuesday, February 1, followed by a reception in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery – co-sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT).

For further information, visit www.filmlinc.com. 

Dance on Camera
January 28 - February 1, 2011

Walter Reade Theater
Lincoln Center
West 65th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
New York City

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