ROCHESTER DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL
On tour from Dance Films Association's 35th
Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center

curated by Betty Jenkins
choreographer/writer/DFA Board Member

Friday-Sunday, September 14-16, 2007
The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. Rochester, NY

Tickets: $10 for general admission; $40 Festival Pass $6 for
Little Theatre Film Society Members, students, children, and seniors
Any questions as to press and group sales, please e-mail Betty Jenkins

Program

Friday, 9/14, 7:30pm
Serge Lifar Musagete
Dominique Delouche, France, 2005, 88m
Produced by Les Films du Prieuré, this documentary is a tribute to the lasting legacy of the French-Russian dancer/choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-1988). Carrying on the Diaghilev tradition of the Ballets Russes, Lifar developed a strong presence for male dancers and employed renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Leonnide Massine, and Frederick Ashton. Filmmaker Dominique Delouche, known for singling out the essential gifts of ballet legends, offers outstanding footage of Serge Lifar, Yvette Chauviré, Nina Vyroubova, Jean Babilée, Isabelle Guerin, Monique Loudieres, Manuel Legris, Janine Charrat, Marcia Haydée, and the dancers of Paris National Opera.

Saturday, 9/15, 5:45pm
Seasons of Migration
John Bishop, USA, 2006, 56m
An exploration of the transformation of identity among Cambodian immigrants in Long Beach, California and their exquisite, highly stylized classical dance that is rooted in and reflective upon their current life. Using dancers from the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, award-winning choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro incorporates original and traditional music, lyrics, and choreography that creates a true miracle.

screening with the following two shorts:
Man'dalas
Cosimo Zitani, Ontario, 2004, 4m
Choreographer Mark Johnson fashions the mundane into the sublime when he is trapped in a revolving door.

Bahudha
Ranan, India, 2006, 12m
Bahudha is part of a series of Kathak duets interacting with other art forms that was first conceived, choreographed and performed by Debashree Bhattacharya and Vikram lyengar in January 2002. In this rhythmic, colorful short, the two dancers perform before projected images of themselves.

Saturday, 9/15, 7:30pm
War/Dance
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, USA, 105 min., 2006
Winner of numerous festival awards, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for Documentary, this profound documentary was directed by Rochester native, Andrea Nix and her husband, Sean Fine. This moving film attests to the power of dance and captures the personality of children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda who succeed in their country's national music and dance festival.

Sunday, 9/16, 5:45pm
Carmen & Geoffrey
Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob, 2004, 80m
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder as artists and as a couple are virtually a New York institution. Their separate careers are staggeringly prolific and their talents extraordinary. This heartwarming documentary on these two larger-than-life personalities is full of wonderful archival footage and it traces their careers, hers as a Horton trained dancer coming to New York from "the wrong coast," his as a Trinidad- born choreographer who set New York on fire as set and costume designer, painter and man about town. Among the dancers who appear on camera are Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons, Jr., Dudley Williams, Ulysses Dove and the great Alvin Ailey.

Sunday, 9/16, 7:30pm
Movement (R)evolution Africa
(A story of an art form In four acts)
Joan Frosch & Alla Kovgan, USA, 65m
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic formentation, eight African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. Stunning choreography and riveting critiques challenge stale stereotypes of “traditional Africa” to unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy of 21st century Africa.
Artists:
Company Kongo Ba Téria (Burkina Faso),
Company Rary (Madagascar),
Sello Pesa (South Africa),
Company TchéTché (Côte d'Ivoire),
Company Raiz di Polon (Cape Verde),
Company Jant Bi (Senegal) and Kota Yamazaki (Japan),
Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe),
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (USA),
Faustin Linyekula (Democratic Republic of Congo)

screening with:

Bride and Broom
Mabebe Delgado (USA-Spain) 1999, 2min
A housewife dances into a fantastical dream world and back again in this charming animated short.

This program was made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA, the members of DFA, and
the Susan Braun Trust.

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