DFA/DNA Video Installation
Lobby of Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor
(entrance on Chambers Street) NYC
July, 2009 evening free screenings
made possible with the generous loan of projector from Penny Ward

Arising
Ben Dolphin, USA, 2008; 4m
Nine dancers dance, dive and fly through the waterfall helping each other as they transform into triumphant, flying angels.

Caution
Susannah Newman, USA, 2008; 6.42m
Helanius Wilkins choreographed a provocative work that explores the frustrations and stereotyping of young, urban black men in America /Susannah Newman winningly juxtaposes its group performance with a cornered soloist and voiceover. Composer: Sven Abow

An Issue of Trust
Allison Fischer, USA, 2007; 12m
The third collaboration between filmmaker Allison Fischer and choreographer Ashley Browne with the introduction of musician David Coit put forth this story to serve as a vehicle of self-reflection for all those who are caught not knowing what they want.

Multiplied Subtraction
Michael Cole, USA, 2008, 30m
The raw material for this video served asa portion of the decor for "the Invention of Minus One," a stage dance by Jonah Bokaer. Starting and ending with the staged reality of a photo shoot, the work takes a Walter Benjaminian look at art and image in the age of digital reproduction. 3-Dimensional imagery is flattened and then converted to a new, sometimes Busby Berkley like, third dimensionality. Realized through a combination of live video and 3-D animation including fractal particle systems, motion capture animation, and traditional pose to pose key-framed animation. The dancers are Holley Farmer, Rashaun Mitchell and Banu Ogan.

Reincarnation
Takeshi Kushida, Japan, 2008; 5m
Kaiji Moriyama performs in this mesmerizing film about the voluptuous moments during the fusion of a soul and a flesh.

Coming in July the following:
American Cinedance Pioneers -
MOVING BODIES AFTER MAYA DEREN

In the 1960s a new form of dance film emerged in the US—one that made free use of editing, camera movement, and the manipulation of time. With a readiness to fracture images of bodies and their movement through space, these films violated all of the previous rules of filming dance. They expanded the earlier innovations of Maya Deren and outlined a whole new genre where cinema shaped dance--not the contrary. In these works the context could be changed, dancers moved off the stage, out into the larger world. Pooh Kaye dances on air and with a shadow; where Kenneth Anger projects his performer into a garden of fountains; where Bruce Conner’s dancer is seen in forward and reverse; where Ed Emshwiller’s three dancers “swim through” each other; where Amy Greenfield uses hundreds of edits and overlapping images to enter the mind of a dancer; where Hilary Harris transforms a single movement phrase into nine configurations—all as ways to enlarge the realm of movement and imagination. By Robert Haller

Kenneth Anger.... EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953) 13m
Bruce Conner...... BREAKAWAY (1966) 5m
Maya Deren..........MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE (1948) 13m*
Ed Emshwiller..... THANATOPSIS (1962) 5 min*,
................................FILM WITH THREE DANCES (1970) 20m
Amy Greenfield ...TRANSPORT(1971) 6 minutes*, DARK SEQUINS (2005) 12m
Walter Gutman... .MAN WALKING DOWN THE SIDE OF A BUILDING (1981) 8m
Hilary Harris ........NINE VARIATIONS ON A DANCE THEME (1967) 13m*
Pooh Kaye: ...........WILD GIRL; WAKE UP CALL (1988) 7m
Norman McLaren. PAS DE DEUX (1968) 14m
James Davis: ........DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION

* Archivally preserved by Anthology Film Archive

Followed by this fall: Belly Boat Hustle, Helenka, Babel, Waterworks, Breath, Embodiments of Silence, Coming to Grips, Cargo, Bardo, Vanishing Point, Happy to be so, and Dance Camera FRF's videos...