University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dance and Video Departments

7th Annual UM Dance on Camera Festival
February 16 & 17, 2008

TWO EVENINGS--TWO DIFFERENT VENUES-- SAME PROGRAM

Saturday, February 16 at 7PM
Palmer Commons Forum Hall
100 Washtenaw (at Palmer Drive)

Sunday, February 17 at 7 PM
Betty Pease Studio Theater
U-M Dance Building, 1310 N. University Ct. (adjacent CCRB)

Admission Free

Program curated by Peter Sparling and Terri Sarris

La Vie est Belle
Tristan Duhamel, France, 2004; 3.13m
A character of street-art painted by Jérôme Mesnager is dancing and running on the walls of Paris, animated by Tristan Duhamel.

Fragmentation
Suzon Fuks, Australia, 2007; 5.8m
Two guys, James Cunningham, Rob Tannion, absorbed in their morning paper and their personal space, manage to find a disjointed connection with one another.

Horizon of Exile
Isabel Rocamora, United Kingdom, 2007; 22m
A journey of two women across timeless desert landscapes is punctuated by voice testimonies of Iraqi exiles. Set to a soundtrack by Jivan Gasparyan with the hypnotic voice of Surma Hamid, an Iraqi exile now living in London, the bodies betray a serene violence, travelling as though released from consciousness or gravity, falling and recuperating, haunted by an irrepressible past.

Cargo
Kelly Hargraves, USA, 2007; 4m
One man’s pit stop on the road of life, where he pauses to rest and
contemplate whether to continue the journey. Sometimes, dark, sometimes
funny and always sexy, as performer Joe Jurd fills the interior of a 1969
Buick Skylark with his physical and emotional self.

Descent
Noemie Lafrance, USA, 2003; 5m
The Canadian born dancer made quite a sensation with her site-specific
installation with twelve women positioned on each floor of a twelve story
stairwell in the NYC courthouse "The Clocktower."

Plant
Olive Bieringa, USA, 2007, 10m
A visceral, painterly and sometimes humorous hallucination amidst the ruins of an abandoned bomb factory in Minnesota produced by the Body Cartography Project. The music consists of a bullet rolling across broken cement, three men engaging in acts of quiet violence, and noisy interaction.

FLYING LESSON - Winner of the 2008 Jury Prize
Phil Harder, Rosanne Chamecki, Andrea Lerner, USA, 2007; 4'37m
A sweet sail one foot above Brooklyn, accomplished by Rosanne Chamecki and Andrea Lerner who are old friends from their native Brazil.

For more information on this program, contact Peter Sparling

This program was made possible with the support of the DFA and its Touring program made possible in part with the support of The National Endowment for the Arts, Music Library of the University of Michigan, the members of DFA, and the Susan Braun Trust.

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