Below is the Dance Camera West Film Festival schedule which starts today at the Music Center! It's funny, sexy, and endlessly resourceful. Presenting sponsors Music Center, Lacma, The Getty Museum and Annenberg Beach House.
"No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international choreographers… Stunning in its variety… Powerful performances…Consistently surprising… Funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful…"
- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Dance Camera West seems to me to be the best festival anywhere in the world."
– Bob Lockyer, Executive Producer, BBC
Dcw 2013 Festival Schedule
Thursday May 2nd Opening Night Shorts Program at Music Center Rigler “Peace on Earth” Fountain 7:00-7:15pm Get Wet Dance Series – Choreographed by Sarah Elgart 8:00pm Opening night shorts series in The Music Center’s Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall 9:00pm Opening Night Party & Meet the Filmmakers in the Founders Room
Friday May 3rd Day Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 3:00-3:15pm Get Wet Dance Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 3:30pm Two Sink, Three Float Short film by Satya Roosens, Surface Tension Short film by Mark Teague and documentary Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Ruoff.
In the 1970s, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA, four male athletes joined a dance class. Their collaborative work led to the creation of Pilobolus and the transformation of modern dance.
5:00pm ProMotion Youth Competition Award Featuring winner of Dcw Pro Motion Youth 2013 & winners of Capturing Motion 2013 from Dfa in NYC 5:30pm Check Your Body At the Door filmmaker Sally Sommer, followed by a Q & A with associate producer Alessandra Larson and dancers, Brahms "Bravo" Lafortune and Conrad Rochester. Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary about remarkable underground House dancers in NYC. Filmed during the golden decade of the 1990s, it follows a core group of master free-stylists in to the clubs, at their jobs and in their everyday lives. Also filmed in the studio against a white background, in silhouette or in light pools, their virtuosic moves and choreography are striking.
Friday May 3Rd Evening Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 6:45-7:00pm Get Wet Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 7:30 Wet Short film by Daniel Mollner 7:30pm The Man Behind the Throne filmmaker Kersti Grunditz, followed by a Q&A with Vincent Paterson.
Following the life and work of director/choreographer Vincent Paterson. Who has created for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Cirque De Soleil.
Saturday May 4th Early Evening Program at The Getty Museum 4:00pm-4:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee 5:00-6:30pm Site and Architecture screenings (International short & long-short film selection) Followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. 7:00pm-7:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee
Sunday May 5th Evening Program at Annenberg Beach House 5-7pm Dance Confessional Booth Dance Confession Booth will be on site for audience members (before and after the screenings) to make their own impromtu dances and view on our website. All are welcome! 6:30-7:00pm: Panel Discussion "Choreography & Environment." Local choreographers, dance film directors, and environmental experts discuss art and resource conservation, and how the art of dance can bring about awareness of environmental issues. 7:30pm Trashdance filmmaker Andrew Garrison Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks and in the men and woman who pick up our trash. (2012 SXSW Special Jury Award)
More Information, Festival Tickets, And All-access Passes Can Be Purchased At www.dancecamerawest.org/tickets...
"No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international choreographers… Stunning in its variety… Powerful performances…Consistently surprising… Funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful…"
- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Dance Camera West seems to me to be the best festival anywhere in the world."
– Bob Lockyer, Executive Producer, BBC
Dcw 2013 Festival Schedule
Thursday May 2nd Opening Night Shorts Program at Music Center Rigler “Peace on Earth” Fountain 7:00-7:15pm Get Wet Dance Series – Choreographed by Sarah Elgart 8:00pm Opening night shorts series in The Music Center’s Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall 9:00pm Opening Night Party & Meet the Filmmakers in the Founders Room
Friday May 3rd Day Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 3:00-3:15pm Get Wet Dance Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 3:30pm Two Sink, Three Float Short film by Satya Roosens, Surface Tension Short film by Mark Teague and documentary Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Ruoff.
In the 1970s, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA, four male athletes joined a dance class. Their collaborative work led to the creation of Pilobolus and the transformation of modern dance.
5:00pm ProMotion Youth Competition Award Featuring winner of Dcw Pro Motion Youth 2013 & winners of Capturing Motion 2013 from Dfa in NYC 5:30pm Check Your Body At the Door filmmaker Sally Sommer, followed by a Q & A with associate producer Alessandra Larson and dancers, Brahms "Bravo" Lafortune and Conrad Rochester. Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary about remarkable underground House dancers in NYC. Filmed during the golden decade of the 1990s, it follows a core group of master free-stylists in to the clubs, at their jobs and in their everyday lives. Also filmed in the studio against a white background, in silhouette or in light pools, their virtuosic moves and choreography are striking.
Friday May 3Rd Evening Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 6:45-7:00pm Get Wet Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 7:30 Wet Short film by Daniel Mollner 7:30pm The Man Behind the Throne filmmaker Kersti Grunditz, followed by a Q&A with Vincent Paterson.
Following the life and work of director/choreographer Vincent Paterson. Who has created for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Cirque De Soleil.
Saturday May 4th Early Evening Program at The Getty Museum 4:00pm-4:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee 5:00-6:30pm Site and Architecture screenings (International short & long-short film selection) Followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. 7:00pm-7:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee
Sunday May 5th Evening Program at Annenberg Beach House 5-7pm Dance Confessional Booth Dance Confession Booth will be on site for audience members (before and after the screenings) to make their own impromtu dances and view on our website. All are welcome! 6:30-7:00pm: Panel Discussion "Choreography & Environment." Local choreographers, dance film directors, and environmental experts discuss art and resource conservation, and how the art of dance can bring about awareness of environmental issues. 7:30pm Trashdance filmmaker Andrew Garrison Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks and in the men and woman who pick up our trash. (2012 SXSW Special Jury Award)
More Information, Festival Tickets, And All-access Passes Can Be Purchased At www.dancecamerawest.org/tickets...
- 5/2/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Club TCM to Offer Celebrities, Expert Panels, Exhibits, Music and More During 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival Exclusive Gathering Spot for Festival Passholders to Feature Appearances by Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, Marni Nixon, Marge Champion, Debbie Allen, Peter Guber and Brett Ratner
Legendary stars, fascinating presentations, panel discussions, live music and special exhibits are just a few of the exciting experiences on tap for Club TCM, the central gathering spot for the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Located in the Blossom Room at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the site of the very first Academy Awards® ceremony, Club TCM will be open throughout the festival, giving passholders a place to relax, meet new friends and mingle with special guests. Among those scheduled to appear are Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, Marni Nixon, Marge Champion, Debbie Allen, Peter Guber, Brett Ratner and graphic artist Michael Schwab, as well...
Legendary stars, fascinating presentations, panel discussions, live music and special exhibits are just a few of the exciting experiences on tap for Club TCM, the central gathering spot for the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Located in the Blossom Room at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the site of the very first Academy Awards® ceremony, Club TCM will be open throughout the festival, giving passholders a place to relax, meet new friends and mingle with special guests. Among those scheduled to appear are Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, Marni Nixon, Marge Champion, Debbie Allen, Peter Guber, Brett Ratner and graphic artist Michael Schwab, as well...
- 4/12/2011
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Conjuring up the ghost of "Cop Rock", Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark" is a bold but only partially successful attempt to create the big screen's first all-singing, all-dancing melodrama.
Give it full points for audacity, but while the story of a struggling Czech immigrant who deals with encroaching blindness by escaping into fully choreographed fantasy musical numbers packs an initial heart-wrenching punch, it ultimately falls prey to some far-fetched plotting from which it never quite recovers.
That said, with von Trier being the kind of in-your-face filmmaker who likes daring audiences to either love him or hate him, there will likely be those in the former category who deem the competition selection a masterpiece. Others will consider it a curious experiment at best.
Either way, with its crazy quilt of an international cast headlined by Bjork and Catherine Deneuve, "Dancer" will probably have little trouble luring the latte set at home and abroad, though significantly wider commercial prospects seem unlikely.
Icelandic pop star Bjork, hiding behind thick black plastic glasses, makes for a sympathetic if slightly overplayed Selma, a single Czechoslovakian mother living in a trailer in rural America.
When not working in a factory that manufactures sinks, Selma likes to immerse herself in old Hollywood musicals, either at the local movie theater or in a class she takes -- which is putting on a production of "The Sound of Music" -- with her French co-worker, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve),
Because of a congenital birth defect, Selma will soon completely lose her already questionable eyesight, and if she isn't able to save enough money to pay for an operation for her son by the time he turns 15, he'll suffer a similar fate.
As things in her life go from bad to disastrously worse -- she ends up in prison with a death sentence hanging over her head -- Selma relies more and more on rhythmic sounds to trigger her show-stopping daydreams.
While the notion of grafting Fred and Ginger moves onto the prototype Susan Hayward wronged-woman picture might sound like an accident waiting to happen, von Trier admittedly taps into something powerful, at least early in the game.
But it's a device that has affected the laws of diminishing returns, and after awhile, all the "Stomp"-flavored beats and fancy footwork (credited to Madonna and Michael Jackson choreographer Vincent Paterson), begin to have a distancing effect. Then there's Bjork's music and singing, which doesn't place much of a value on melody.
And though a deliberately unglamorous Deneuve is impressive as Selma's protective friend, von Trier's cosmopolitan cast, which also includes David Morse as a desperate cop, Udo Kier as an eye doctor and Joel Grey as a Czech song-and-dance man, tends to get a little lost in the clutter of accents.
"Dancer in the Dark"
A Zentropa Entertainments4, Trust Film Svenska, Film I Vast and Liberator Prods. presentation
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Lars von Trier
Producer: Vibeke Windelov
Executive producer: Peter Aalbaek Jensen
Director of photography: Robby Muller
Production designer: Karl Juliusson
Editors: Molly Malene Stensgaard, Francois Gedigier
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Music: Bjork
Lyrics: Lars von Trier & Sjon Sigurdsson
Choreographer: Vincent Paterson
Cast:
Selma: Bjork
Kathy: Catherine Deneuve
Bill: David Morse
Jeff: Peter Stormare
Oldrich Novo: Joel Grey
Running time -- 139 minutes...
Give it full points for audacity, but while the story of a struggling Czech immigrant who deals with encroaching blindness by escaping into fully choreographed fantasy musical numbers packs an initial heart-wrenching punch, it ultimately falls prey to some far-fetched plotting from which it never quite recovers.
That said, with von Trier being the kind of in-your-face filmmaker who likes daring audiences to either love him or hate him, there will likely be those in the former category who deem the competition selection a masterpiece. Others will consider it a curious experiment at best.
Either way, with its crazy quilt of an international cast headlined by Bjork and Catherine Deneuve, "Dancer" will probably have little trouble luring the latte set at home and abroad, though significantly wider commercial prospects seem unlikely.
Icelandic pop star Bjork, hiding behind thick black plastic glasses, makes for a sympathetic if slightly overplayed Selma, a single Czechoslovakian mother living in a trailer in rural America.
When not working in a factory that manufactures sinks, Selma likes to immerse herself in old Hollywood musicals, either at the local movie theater or in a class she takes -- which is putting on a production of "The Sound of Music" -- with her French co-worker, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve),
Because of a congenital birth defect, Selma will soon completely lose her already questionable eyesight, and if she isn't able to save enough money to pay for an operation for her son by the time he turns 15, he'll suffer a similar fate.
As things in her life go from bad to disastrously worse -- she ends up in prison with a death sentence hanging over her head -- Selma relies more and more on rhythmic sounds to trigger her show-stopping daydreams.
While the notion of grafting Fred and Ginger moves onto the prototype Susan Hayward wronged-woman picture might sound like an accident waiting to happen, von Trier admittedly taps into something powerful, at least early in the game.
But it's a device that has affected the laws of diminishing returns, and after awhile, all the "Stomp"-flavored beats and fancy footwork (credited to Madonna and Michael Jackson choreographer Vincent Paterson), begin to have a distancing effect. Then there's Bjork's music and singing, which doesn't place much of a value on melody.
And though a deliberately unglamorous Deneuve is impressive as Selma's protective friend, von Trier's cosmopolitan cast, which also includes David Morse as a desperate cop, Udo Kier as an eye doctor and Joel Grey as a Czech song-and-dance man, tends to get a little lost in the clutter of accents.
"Dancer in the Dark"
A Zentropa Entertainments4, Trust Film Svenska, Film I Vast and Liberator Prods. presentation
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Lars von Trier
Producer: Vibeke Windelov
Executive producer: Peter Aalbaek Jensen
Director of photography: Robby Muller
Production designer: Karl Juliusson
Editors: Molly Malene Stensgaard, Francois Gedigier
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Music: Bjork
Lyrics: Lars von Trier & Sjon Sigurdsson
Choreographer: Vincent Paterson
Cast:
Selma: Bjork
Kathy: Catherine Deneuve
Bill: David Morse
Jeff: Peter Stormare
Oldrich Novo: Joel Grey
Running time -- 139 minutes...
- 5/18/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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