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DANCE on CAMERA 2009 Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and DFA, Jan ONLINE PRESS OFFICE Press releases and hi-res images may be downloaded from filmlinc.com/press Password: press DANCE ON CAMERA 2009 Presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and DFA, Jan. 7-11 and 16-17 NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2008—The 2009 edition of Dance on Camera, the longest-running annual film festival showcasing the influential and formative role dance plays in film, will hit the screen at The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, Jan. 7-11 and 16-17. The Film Society and Dance Films Association reunite for the 13th year to present the festival’s 14 unique film programs, screening 39 new, classic and experimental features and shorts. They highlight new media’s pioneering role in bringing dance to vivid life on screen; celebrate a rarely seen silent film classic; offer two evocative looks at South Asian dance; spotlight dance luminaries Jerome Robbins, Busby Berkeley, Antonio Gades, and Jirí Kylián; and much more. Special guests will include iconoclast filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, Emmy Award- winning producer of “Dance in America” Judy Kinberg; Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and Long Island University dean Rhoda Grauer; choreographers Nora Chipaumire and Rajika Puri; and Village Voice senior film critic J. Hoberman, who will introduce a screening of Berkeley’s legendary 1934 dance musical “Dames” on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 4:00 p.m. Acclaimed French documentarian Bertrand Normand will introduce and answer questions following the festival’s first program, Ballet Then and Now, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 6:15 p.m. Normand’s “Ballerina” is an insightful new investigation of the St. Petersburg ballerina as incarnated by five of the Kirov’s rising stars: Alina Somova, Svetlana Zakharova, Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina and Evgenia Obraztsova. It screens alongside Gillian Lacey’s “Play: On the Beach with the Ballets Russes,” presenting newly found and edited footage of famous Ballet Russes dancers on the beach in Sydney, Australia, during their 1936-1940 tours. At 9:00 p.m., EMPAC Dance Movies looks at the future of dance and new media technologies through four groundbreaking shorts specially commissioned for the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center. EMPAC curator Hélène Lesterlin will introduce the program. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire, filmmaker Alla Kovgan, and 1. producer Joan Frosch will introduce their video, “Nora,” a biographical dance drama about a Zimbabwean girl’s struggle for love and independence. Era-spanning feature films highlighted in the series include a rare retrospective look at Maurice Tourneur’s 1918 fantasy masterpiece “The Blue Bird,” featuring a live piano performance by silent film accompanist Ben Model. On the opposite extreme, innovative Belgian choreographer Alain Platel and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes team up for “VSPRS Show and Tell,” a definitive look at Platel’s controversial interpretation of the cherished hymn, “Maria Vespers.” Fiennes will introduce and answer questions following the screening. Rajika Puri, choreographer, writer and renowned exponent of two forms of Indian temple dance, will also be on hand to introduce and answer questions about the first of two Dance on Camera films focusing on South Asian artistry: “Dance of the Enchantress,” veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s compelling exploration of the Mohiniyattam dance form. Aribam Syam Sharma’s celebrated 1991 Cannes Film Festival selection “The Chosen One,” charting the strange rituals of a Meitei matriarchal cult as they affect a happily married woman, will be presented in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade. Rhoda Grauer, Emmy-winning producer, writer and filmmaker, and dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University, will introduce the film on Saturday, Jan. 17. The shorts programs Magnetic Cinema x 3, On the Short Side and Memories, also offer an exclusive glimpse at the global reach of new choreographic visions. The festival’s closing night feature offers a sneak peek at the new American Masters documentary on prodigious choreographer Jerome Robbins. Directed and produced by six-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Judy Kinberg and written by best- selling Jerome Robbins biographer Amanda Vaill, “Something to Dance About” cuts never-before-seen rehearsal footage next to interviews with many of Robbins’s esteemed colleagues, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Chita Rivera and Stephen Sondheim, to offer an incisive examination of Robbins’s creative process. A panel discussion with Kinberg, Vaill, dancer and choreographer Donald Saddler, and other guests will follow the screening. Other dance and dance film virtuosos whose work is on display in the series include Czech choreographer Jirí Kylián and flamenco master Antonio Gades, whose backstage preparations are brought into fresh new light in Juan Cano Arecha’s documentary “Antonio Gades: The Ethics of Dancing.” Busby Berkeley’s trailblazing brand of Hollywood musical spectacle is spotlighted in two programs—Blithe Spirits: Rudavsky Meets Busby Berkeley and a screening in a new 35mm studio print of “The Gang’s All Here,” starring Benny Goodman, Alive Faye, Charlotte Greenwood, and the iconic Carmen Miranda as the Girl in the Tutti-Frutti Hat. The 2009 edition of the Dance on Camera Festival marks the 13th year of collaboration between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association and the festival’s 37th year as an internationally touring event. It is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 2. Capezio Ballet-Makers Foundation, French Consulate, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Experimental Television Center. Single screening tickets for Dance on Camera 2009 are $11; $7 for Film Society members, students and children (6-12, accompanied by an adult); and $8 for seniors (62+). They are available at both the Walter Reade Theater box office and online at filmlinc.com. A series pass admitting one person to a total of five titles in the series can be purchased at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only) for $40; $30 for Film Society members. For information, call (212) 875-5601. The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new directors, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding of film. Advancing this mandate today, the Film Society hosts two distinguished festivals. The New York Film Festival annually premieres films from around the world and has introduced the likes of François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, and Wong Kar-Wai to the United States. New Directors/New Films, co-presented by the Museum of Modern Art, focuses on emerging film talents. Since 1972, when the Film Society honored Charles Chaplin in person, the annual Gala Tribute celebrates an actor or filmmaker who has helped distinguish cinema as an art form. Additionally, the Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming at its Walter Reade Theater and offers insightful film writing to a worldwide audience through Film Comment magazine. The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater is located at 165 West 65th St. between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. Please note: Due to construction work taking place around Lincoln Center, access to the Walter Reade Theater is near Amsterdam Avenue. Once there, take the escalator, elevator or stairs to the upper level. MEDIA CONTACTS: Jeanne R. Berney, (212) 875-5416, [email protected] Gabriele Caroti, (212) 875-5625, [email protected] Dance on Camera 2009, Jan. 7-11, 16-17 Schedule at a Glance (Detailed Program Information Follows) Wednesday, Jan. 7 6:15 Ballet Then and Now 9:00 EMPAC Dance Movies Thursday, Jan. 8 1:30 Ballet Then and Now 4:00 Jirí Kylián On Screen 6:15 Flamenco + Shorts 3. 8:45 Magnetic Cinema x 3 Friday, Jan. 9 2:00 Flamenco + Shorts 4:00 Dance of the Enchantress 6:15 On the Short Side 8:30 VSPRS Show and Tell Saturday, Jan. 10 3:00 FREE TALK: Under the Influence of Busby Berkeley 4:00 Blithe Spirits: Rudavsky Meets Busby Berkeley 6:30 The Gang’s All Here 8:45 Memories Sunday, Jan. 11 2:00 The Blue Bird 4:15 Memories 6:15 VSPRS Show and Tell 8:30 On the Short Side Friday, Jan. 16 1:00 Magnetic Cinema x 3 3:30 The Chosen One 6:15 American Masters: Jerome Robbins 9:00 Dance of the Enchantress Saturday, Jan. 17 1:00 The Chosen One 3:30 Jirí Kylián On Screen All times p.m. Dance on Camera 2009, Jan. 7-11, 16-17 Detailed Program and Schedule Information Organized by showtime BALLET THEN AND NOW Ballerina Bertrand Normand, France, 2007; 77m French director Bertrand Normand explores the concept of the St. Petersburg ballerina through interview and performance footage of Alina Somova, Svetlana Zakharova, Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina and Evgenia Obraztsova. An intimate look at five of the Kirov’s rising superstars. Normand will introduce and answer questions following the 4. screenings. Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Play: On the Beach with the Ballets Russes Gillian Lacey, UK, 2008; 23m Gillian Lacey edits together archival footage of Ballets Russes dancers frolicking on the beach in Sydney, Australia, during their 1936-1940 tours. Ballet Russes dancer Betty Low will answer questions after the screening on Wednesday, Jan. 7. Wed Jan 7: 6:15pm Thu Jan 8: 1:30pm EMPAC DANCE MOVIES Due to a generous grant from The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and the Performing Arts, EMPAC has played a pioneering role in the support of new works in which dance meets the technology of the moving image. Curator Hélène Lesterlin will introduce the four videos presented in this program.
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