The Invisible Dog Art Center and Villa Albertine are thrilled to invite you to the second edition of Dance Film Series, a series of dance films featuring new French and international talents.
The evening will feature three movies:
O Samba do Crioulo Doido: Ruler and Compass (2020, 15mn)
by Calixto Neto (Brazil)
In Brazilian with English subtitles - This movie contains nudity
To touch the black time. To build a black language. To transmit a nigger dance. The film reveals the transmission process of the piece O Samba do Crioulo Doido (The Samba of the Crazy Nigger), in 2020.
Created in 2004 by the Brazilian dancer and choreographer Luiz de Abreu, the iconic piece makes a deep reflection on Brazil's society from the point of view of a black man at the dawn of a democratic twist that lasted sixteen years, period when some voices were finally liberated.
The reenactment of the piece and its transmission process, proposed by the Centre National de la Danse (France) and the Panorama Festival (Brazil), rises new questions, as Brazil is under a neo-fascist threat. Other cries are heard and reach other allies to shout together and attempt to write a new future, where black memories will no longer be erased and black voices will no longer be silenced.
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Nioun Rec (2021 - 9mn)
by Amala Dianor and Grégoire Korganow (France)
in French with English subtitles.
In January 2021, the choreographer Amala Dianor immersed himself in the space of the Villa Savoye, a modernist villa on the outskirts of Paris designed by Le Corbusier, to fuse the styles of urban, contemporary and African dance. For this collaboration with the artist Grégoire Korganow, Amala Dianor adapted the choreography from Man Rec (“Only Me” in wolof) and transformed it into Nioun Rec (“Only Us”), the first work in a series of dance films entitled CinéDanse. Accompanied by the dancer Nangaline Gomis, the choreographer presents through this film a unique, site-specific creation within the walls of an iconic piece of modern architecture.
A Young Girl in Her Nineties (Une jeune fille de 90 ans) (2016 - 85mn)
by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian
in French with English subtitles
Projection followed by a Q&A with Thierry Thieû Niang
All is quiet at the geriatric hospital until choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang arrives. Then music fills the empty corridors, and dance workshops bring the Alzheimer’s patients to life. Niang doesn’t dance for the elderly people, he dances with them: to the strains of vintage French chansons, he lifts them in his arms and whirls them around as if their bodies were capable of anything. The choreographer takes them back to years gone by and reawakens their dreams, desires, pain and sadness. The music and unfamiliar movement revitalize the patients, both physically and mentally. One of them is the 92-year-old Blanche Moreau, for whom the intimate dancing and evocative music rekindle feelings of love. In this moving film, we see how dance can rejuvenate aging spirits. Niang’s warm interest and loving approach and Blanche’s unconstrained tenderness reveal that love knows no bounds.
Dance Films Catalogue:
A Project of Villa Albertine, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States.
The 2022 Dance Films Catalogue features films and documentaries by and with artists of various backgrounds. While most of the films are shot recently, the catalogue also includes films from the past decade and earlier. Dance and cinema have a long shared history thanks to their common interest: the motion of bodies and energies. With today’s enhanced digital video technologies and the current restrictions on international exchange, dance is reimagining itself in many different spaces, diving into archival material and creating new forms. Films and documentaries included in the catalogue are of all lengths and cover all genres and dance forms. For previous readers, the online catalogue #2 includes all the films of the version #1 as well as new titles. This project is a program of Villa Albertine, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States with support from Institut français, French Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with several French institutions such as Centre National de la Danse (CND), Maison de la Danse as well as organizations based in African countries such as Studio Kabako, Kisangani, RD Congo.
More information about the catalogue: www.frenchculture.org
Admission
$0–$20
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Location
51 Bergen St.