Readymade Theatre
presents Dance on Camera at
Cake "a new space dedicated for the dance arts"
Albuquerque, New Mexico

3 programs curated by Zsolt Palcza

Program 1, Feb 23, 2007, 8pm

VALSE WALS
Mark de Cloe, Netherlands, 2005; 62m
Two veterans of wordless theatre productions, Ria Marks and Titus Tiel Groenestege, offer a duet by turns absurd, outrageous and poignant, exploring an embattled yet bizarrely enduring relationship in ways that recall Buster Keaton and Becket simultaneously. The Orkater music/theater collective has been creating work since 1983. This is the first of a proposed man-woman trilogy. www.orkater.nl

BREAK **JURY WINNER
Shona McCullagh, New Zealand, 2006, 14m
A moving tribute to a family’s dynamic from the perspective of a young boy that plays inventively with rhythm and narrative. From the director of wildly popular dance short FLY and the choreographer for KING KONG and the THE LION, WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. For more information and to purchase her other shorts FLY and HURTLE, please e-mail Human Garden


Program 2, March 23, 2007

DAMEN UND HERREN AB 65
Germany, 70 min., 2003
Choreographer: Pina Bausch; Director/Producer: Lilo Mangelsdorff; Cinetix GmbH in collaboration with NDR / Arte; Sponsor: Hessische Filmfoerderung; Dancers: Senior Citizens from Wuppertal.
The title is taken from a newspaper ad placed by the famous German choreographer Pina Bausch. This documentary follows the selected retired professionals as they rehearse and later perform the piece set on them.

CAUGHT IN PAINT
Rita Blitt, USA, 2003, 6m
A film that has been shown at over 60 film festivals nationally and has won seven awards, CAUGHT IN PAINT is a film that brings together the painter Rita Blitt, choreographer David Parsons and his Parsons Dance Company, and photographer Lois Greenfield, in a union of paint, dance and photography.

Program 3, June 9, 2007

OPIUM
Miles Lowry and David Ferguson, Canada, 2006, 24m
Suddenly Dance Theatre’s narrative is inspired by a three month episode in the life of the French artist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Originally written as a visual poem for the stage by Canadian author Miles Lowry, OPIUM imagines Cocteau’s harrowing stay at a clinic near Paris in 1929, where he hoped for a cure for his addiction to opium. Grania Litwin of the Times-Colonist wrote that OPIUM is “a tight, clever, troubling, moody and intense dance drama that starts out looking like a Masterpiece Theatre, but soon moves into new territory”. Produced in association with Bravo! Canada, a division of CHUM Limited; in collaboration with ARTV.

ONE FLAT THING, REPRODUCED
Thierry de Mey, France, 2006, 26m
William Forsythe carved a formidable career in Europe with infrequent returns to NYC. His collaboration with Thierry de Mey, acclaimed for his screen adaptations of works by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, brings us insights into his ingenious choreography. Thierry de Mey follows a formal strategy to capture “the play of triggers, moments of waiting, visual and sonic cues, and to follow the conducting voices of Forsythe’s choreographic melodic montage and contrasting mounting rhythms that penetrates inside the playing space."

For more information on this screening, e-mail Zolt Palcza

Readymade Dance Theater is based in Albuqerque, New Mexico and directed by Zsolt Palcza. He produced his first American show, The Passion of Dracula, for the Madison Theater Guild in Wisconsin, setting the movement piece in an insane asylum instead of a castle. He joined forced with dancer/choreographer/teacher Elizabeth Lende and University of New Mexico (UNM) Associate Professor/Art Director Gordon Kennedy in 1998 while making The Mysteries and What’s So Funny? a dance theater/chess game about the legendary Marcel Duchamp. In 2001, the trio founded RDTC along with writer Whitney Woodward, and were soon joined by dancer Tim Schettino, a graduate student in choreography and one of the department’s most prolific dancers.

This program was made possible through DFA's touring program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the members of DFA, and the Susan Braun Trust. To become a touring partner, see the Touring Partnership Page

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