VCU Dance presents Dance on Camera, a screening of four short dance films selected from the New York Dance Films Association, Dance on Camera Festival, 2009. These films, never before screened in Richmond, will be presented at VCU’s Grace Street Theater on Tuesday, October 13 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door. For more information, call the Grace Street Theater Box Office at (804) 828-2020.
Curated by VCU Dance Professor Martha Curtis, Dance on Camera promises an exciting glimpse into the innovative genre of video dance. According to Prof. Curtis, “This promises to be an exciting screening with films from several corners of the globe. We start with a disorienting play on space and gravity, move to an unexpected accident, then to the enigmatic, finishing with a richly moving biography told with the hybrid artfrom of videodance.”
The screening will feature PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL, a film directed by David Fariás, Carla Schillagi and Maria Fernanda Vallejos of Argentina and nominated for a Jury Prize at the 2009 Dance on Camera Film Festival. Dancers explore a narrow passageway to create and elegant, abstract and lively piece of pure movement and form.
Directed by Didzis Eglitis of Latvia, VEITING NORBA describes an accidental encounter on a sidewalk that spins a group waiting for the garbage collector into a chain reaction likely to provoke a smile.
MYSTERIES OF NATURE, was the winner of the Dance Films Association 2009 Jury Prize. Created by Dahci Ma, South Korea, in 2008, the film is simply described as “torn into bits and gone with the wind.”
Audience Favorite at the 2009 Dance on Camera Film Festival, NORA was directed by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, choreographed by Nora Chipaumire, with a soundscore by Thomas Mapfumo, and produced by Joan Frosch (USA, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, UK, respectively). Nora is a dense and swiftly moving poem of sound and image that tells the story of a dancer growing up in Zimbabwe.
Dance on Camera is the second event of the VCU Dance 2009-2010 Season, a thrilling year of concerts, film screenings, master classes and more. The VCU Dance 2009-2010 Season is made possible in part by funding graciously provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; the New England Foundation for the Arts, and VCUarts.
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. Recognized by professional dancers and choreographers as “a place where things are happening,” Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Dance and Choreography offers a vibrant and stimulating atmosphere where students prepare for careers in dance.
