ADFVIDEO
American Dance Festival
art WORKS VIDEO Catalog 2015
ABOUT THE ADF/AWV CATALOG
The videos offered in the ADF catalog are already in the collections of hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States, as well as the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the Laban Institute in London. The videos carried by ADF are a living legacy of the history of modern dance and an invaluable asset in the classroom. ADF Video/ArtWorks Video
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ADF VIDEO PRESENTS
SPEAKING OF
Conversations with contemporary masters of American modern dance
The American Dance Festival and video director Douglas Rosenberg are pleased to present a series of videos Speaking of Dance, a documentary project to preserve the history of modern dance masters.
Speaking of Dance videos are available for sale to colleges, universities, students and others interested in the history of modern dance. Each piece contains interviews, performance and teaching footage, as well as remarkable stories recounted by the subjects about their lives in dance. “These videos are invaluable for their preservaation of our modern legacy, which has suffered from too little documentation. The dance sequences are marked by supple camera work and a sharp sense of rhythm and contrast.” -Sally Banes, Dance Historian
“Dance documentaries are essential for teaching dance history. These videos by Douglas Rosenberg and ADF are of outstanding quality. They are an invaluable record of our dance heritage and exceptionally wellsuited for classroom use.”
Li Chiao-Ping, Six Solos Li Chiao-Ping Dances AW-13
-Jenefer Johnson, Lecturer in Dance, University of California, Berkeley
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ADFV-1 LUCAS HOVING 1992, DVD, 55 minutes $110
As a principal dancer in José Limón’s Company, Lucas Hoving originated roles in the The Moors Pavane, Emperor Jones and other important works.
This tape includes footage from Mr. Hoving’s Growing Up In Public, performed at the American Dance Festival in 1989, along with teaching footage and personal recollections of his life in dance.
ADFV-2 ANNA SOKOLOW 1992, DVD, 45 minutes $110
1991 Scripps/ADF Award winner Anna Sokolow talks with ADF codirector Charles Reinhart about her life, her work with Louis Horst, Martha Graham and her personal vision.
This video also includes Ms. Sokolow teaching a master class at the American Dance Festival.
ADFV-3 DONALD MCKAYLE 1993, DVD, 55 minutes $110
1992 Scripps/ADF Award winner Donald McKayle (presented by Maya Angelou) reconstructs Games on the Chuck Davis’ African American Dance Ensemble.
This video features step-by-step documentation of the creative process including rehearsals, interviews and performance footage.
ADFV-4 VIDEO DANCE, VOL 1 1992, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Two dances for the camera directed by Douglas Rosenberg
The Mourning Kiss
The Mourning Kiss was screened at the 1990 International Grand Prix Video Danse, Paris, France.
“...a modified tango for two is arrested in time, accentuating physical gestures and their emotive possibilities. The use of an ever-wandering slow-motion tech- nique suspends the desiring note of Susana Tambutti’s choreography.” -Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive “The images are cold, sharp, and clear.” -Jack Anderson, New York Times
Yellow River (Hwang Ho)
Screened at the 1992 Dance Screen in Frankfurt, Germany, Yellow River combines movement, gesture, text and landscape imagery to tell a woman’s story of growing up Chinese in America. Choreographer Li Chiao-Ping recounts the stories, superstitions, and fables told to her as a child by her mother.
“From the first delicate shots of rice falling, the piece engaged me.” -Julia Reichart, juror, Charlotte Film and Video Festival
ADFV-5 DANCING ON THE EDGE, VOL 1 1992, DVD, 45 minutes $60
Includes highlights from ADF performances by: •
The Paul Taylor Dance Company
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Ballet Du Lac Tumba
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Jin Xing
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company Reijo Kela
Claude Brumachon
ADFV-6 DANCING ON THE EDGE, VOL 2 1992, DVD, 45 minutes $60
Includes highlights from ADF performances by: •
Erick Hawkins Dance Company
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Chuck Davis’ African-American Dance Ensemble
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Sukarji Sriman
Guangdong Modern Dance Company Pilobolus
Molissa Fenley Sutki
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ADFV-7 ETHEL BUTLER 1993, DVD, 60 minutes $110
From 1933 through 1945, Ethel Butler was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. She went on to become a well-known teacher of the Graham Technique, counting among her students Paul Taylor and Dan Wagoner. In this piece, Ms. Butler talks about her life in dance and recounts her earliest memories of working with Martha Graham.
ADFV-8 BETTY JONES 1993, DVD, 60 minutes $110
As a founding member of the José Limón Dance Company, Betty Jones created many now classic roles in both Limón’s and Doris Humphrey’s dances. The recipient of the 1993 ADF Distinguished Teaching Chair, Ms. Jones has been called “a leading authority on the Limón technique” and has influenced generations of dance teaching and young modern dancers. This piece documents her teaching and performing and includes recollections of a remarkable life in dance as told by Ms. Jones herself.
ADFV-9 TALLEY BEATTY 1993, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Talley Beatty has had an illustrious career spanning six decades. He began studying with Katherine Dunham at the age of 11 and at 16 became a principal dancer in her company. His choreography has been performed by numerous companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Mr. Beatty was the recipient of the 1993 Scripps/ADF award. Also included in this video is A Study in Choreography For Camera (1945), the seminal film by Maya Deren featuring Mr. Beatty. “It is wonderful to have the work and words of fine artists preserved for future reference. I wish I could afford to buy every single video in the ADF catalog. Perhaps I will, over time!” —Teren D. Ellison, dance writer
ADFV-10 DANIEL NAGRIN 1993, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Daniel Nagrin has had a forty-year career as a dancer, choreographer, author and teacher. Born in 1917 in New York City, Mr. Nagrin studied with Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, Hanya Holm and Helen Tamiris. He made his Broadway debut in 1945, but is best known for his solo work. In this video, Mr. Nagrin speaks about his philosophy of dance and his experience as a dancer and choreographer. Also included are clips of some of Mr. Nagrin’s most important works.
ADFV-11 ERICK HAWKINS 1994, DVD, 60 minutes $110
After 54 years in dance, Erick Hawkins is an acknowledged master of modern dance. Alan Kriegsman of the Washington Post has called him “one of the genuinely great pioneers of American dance.” In this piece, Mr. Hawkins, at the age of 83 speaks of his career, his life, and his collaborations with the composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. The video features Mr. Hawkins teaching his company, excerpts from his work and an interview with Ms. Dlugoszewski.
ADFV-12 EIKO & KOMA - LAND 1995, DVD, 60 minutes $110
In this video by director Douglas Rosenberg, the full-length piece Land has been restaged for the camera.
Also included are interviews with Eiko and Koma in which they speak about their creative process and the creation of Land, which was co-commissioned by the Next Wave Festival, the American Dance Festival, and the Lied Center at the University of Nebraska.
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ADFV-13 MARK DENDY 1996, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Mark Dendy is well-known for his physically daring and energetic dances exploring such themes as gender, religion and other critical social issues.
In this piece, which includes excerpts from his most well-known dances, Mr. Dendy, recipient of three consecutive NEA Fellowships, talks about what has shaped his life and influenced his work.
ADFV-14 TRISHA BROWN 1996, DVD, 77 minutes $110
Trisha Brown has been hailed as “one of the true great experimentalists in modern dance.” Ms. Brown began her career in New York City as a member of Judson Dance Theater. Since forming her own company in 1971, she has received major commissions from foundations and festivals around the world. In this video, Ms. Brown, a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, speaks with Charles Reinhart about her life in dance.
ADFV-15 STEVE PAXTON 1996, DVD, 78 minutes $110
A former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mr. Paxton is best known for his development of contact improvisation starting in 1972. He was a co-founder of the Judson Dance Theater and later the Grand Union and has been the recipient of a Bessie Award as well as grants from the NEA and Rockefeller Foundation. In this interview, Mr. Paxton speaks about his career since the 1960’s and his work with Cunningham, Trisha Brown, and others as well as his involvement with contact improvisation.
ADFV-16 DANCING ON THE EDGE, VOL 3 1996, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Highlights from ADF performances by: •
Dendy Dance
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Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance
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Ralph Lemon Ann Carlson
Dai Rakuda Kan
Amy Sue Rosen & Derek Bernstein
ADFV-17 DANCING ON THE EDGE, VOL 4 1996, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Highlights from ADF performances by: •
Elizabeth Streb/Ringside
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Laura Dean
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Sally Silvers
Eiko and Koma Diquis Tiquis
Nucleodanza
ADFV-18 WITH MY RED FIRES DVD, 60 minutes $60
Doris Humphrey’s dance-drama of possessive and vindictive maternal love in a harshly ritualistic and demagogic society. The cast is led by Dalienne Majors, Nina Watt and Raymond Johnson.
Filmed at the American Dance Festival in 1972, the first film is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
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ADFV-19 NEW DANCE DVD, 60 minutes $110
Doris Humphrey’s modern dance classic of affirmation was choreographed in 1935 and features Linda Tarney and Peter Woodin.
Filmed at the American Dance Festival in 1972, the first film is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
ADFV-20 EMPEROR JONES DVD, 52 minutes $60
A highly theatrical dance work based on Eugene O’Neill’s play, Emperor Jones was choreographed in 1956 by Jose Limón. The cast is led by Clay Taliaferro and Edward DeSoto. The first film is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
ADFV-21 FLICKERS DVD, 38 minutes $60
A zany spoof of silent movie conventions and clichés choreographed in 1941 by Charles Weidman, this performance of Flickers was directed by Weidman and filmed at the American Dance Festival in 1972.
The first film on this tape is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
ADFV-22 MEREDITH MONK 1996, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, filmmaker, and director/ choreographer. This tape includes interviews and excerpts from performance. A pioneer in what is now called extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary performance, Ms. Monk has created more than 80 works of music, theater, dance and film. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major force in the performing arts.
“When the time comes, perhaps a hundred years from now, to tally up the achievements in the per- forming arts during the last third of the present century, one name that seems sure to loom large is that of Meredith Monk. In originality, in scope, in depth there are few to rival her.” -Alan M. Kriegsman, Washington Post
ADFV-23 PAULINE KONER 1998, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Pauline Koner is the recipient of the American Dance Festival’s 1998 Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Dancer, teacher, choreographer, and author, Ms. Koner studied with Michel Fokine, Michio Ito and Angel Cansino and performed her own solo concerts from 1930-1945. In 1935, Ms. Koner became the first American dancer officially engaged to appear in the U.S.S.R. She was a pioneer in dance for television, creating shows for CBS in 1945-46, and spent 15 years as a regular guest artist with the José Limón Company. This tape features interviews with Ms. Koner and excerpts from her most well-known choreography.
ADFV-24 PILOBOLUS 1997, DVD, 60 minutes $110
This documentary, produced by University of North Carolina Public Television, offers an insightful look at the work of these modern dance originals. Since their earliest days, Pilobolus has been astounding and confounding audiences around the world with their particular brand of modern dance.
The documentary features interviews with two of the artistic directors, Alison Chase and Michael Tracy, and complete multicamera versions of Walklyndon (1971), Aeros (1996), Solo From The Empty Suitor (1980), and Olympic Dances (1997). 2015 ADF Catalog 11
Screendance Anthology Series Growing interest in screendance has allowed festivals that specifically focus on dance films to grow and flourirsh internationally. The Screendance Anthology Series shows a diverse collection of dance films that have been screened at the International Screendance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. The International Screendance Festival is directed by filmmaker Douglas Rosenberg and explores the ever-evolving relationship between dance and the screen. Starting in 2001 with Disc One, this collection provides a major survey of the diverse and exciting trends and practices in screendance’s global dance community.
Still from Seeing Is...by Keira Hart
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ADFV-25 DISC ONE (2001-2005) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Monte Cavlera
Director/Choreographer: Francesca N. Penzani
Time passing by...observing the moment, holding it...reliving it...freezing it. A wish to stop, to hold on, the wish for the power to change the law of gravity...and the law of impermanence. Catching, playing, blowing, holding...A feather is the metaphor used in this short video.
Ghostworld
Director: Alex Geng; choreographers: Siöned Watkins & Sarah Williams
Still from Monte Cavlera by Francesca N. Penzani
As the lens captures the ephemeral essence of two souls lost in a transparent world, Ghostworld examines the choreographic nature of dance, sound and film itself.
On a Wing and a Prayer
Director/Choreographer: Narelle Benjamin
A young nun’s private reverie and meditation with her secret music box, which contains two dancers.
Neglect
Director/Choreographer: Dianne Reid
Set in a circa 1963 apartment building in the heart of Melbourne’s Jewish quarter, Neglect chases clues of the hidden lives of three women. An eerie journey through corridors and stairwells, the building becomes a metaphor for the body as the location upon which emotional battles are played out and histories are inscribed. Still from Codice Aperto by Luca Scarzella & Enzo Procopio
Seeing Is…
Director/Choreographer: Keira Hart
Seeing Is...was inspired by the vast, unearthly landscape of the Salt Flats in Utah. Director/choreographer Keira Hart was intrigued by the properties of heat, light and mirage - and how they affect both the physical environment and the viewer’s perception of that environment.
Codice Aperto (Open Code)
Director: Luca Scarzella; choreographer Enzo Procopio
Codice Aperto is set in La Marrana di Montemarcello, Italy’s Park of Environmental Art, an agricultural and woodland area that has been transformed into a cultural space open to the public. Five beings, shadows and bodies, invade the suspended time of a natural landscape populated by the creations of other artists. Still from Neglect by Dianne Reid
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ADFV-26 DISC TWO (2006-2007) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Bittersweet
Director/Choreographer: David Rousséve
Bittersweet is the first work for the camera directed by award-winning choreographer David Roussève. It explores the relationships of three women of color to their husbands, lovers, and to one another in an alternately lyrical and violent look at race and gender politics.
Lineage
Director: Jody Oberfelder
Still from Bittersweet by David Rousséve
Lineage contrasts the lines of our bodies with lines in landscape-imprints of time in nature and human nature. Martha Myers, 80 years old, breathes with the lineage of our dance community.
Greuw
Director: Chris Cameron An experiment in micro movement and body abstraction through close-ups and post-production compositing.
Corps et Instruments
Director: Alex Geng; choreographer: Danielle Desnoyers
Sound and movement are linked in this film of energetic elegance and high heels. Screened at American Dance Festival, and Moving Pictures Festival, Toronto.
My Silhouette is Your Silhouette Director: Chris Cameron Still from Lineage by Jody Oberfelder
An improvisational interaction between dancer and projected past.
Splice
Director/Choreographer: Christinn Whyte
Footage from four performances is spliced together to create a single sequence of movement.
Sport: Sweat Sponge
Director/Choreographer: Kathleen Hahn
Three contestants compete in a reality altering championship to out sweat one another. Will it be charming perseverance, easy going wit, or curious lethargy that leads one player to take over Deter’s twenty-two year title and the sought after Golden Sponge.
Still from My Silhouette is Your Silhouette by Chris Cameron
ADFV-27 DISC THREE (2007-2008) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Moebius
Director: Claudia Kappenberg
Moebius combines virtual images and physical reality. The starting point for this piece is archive footage of children playing with a giant ball. The archive footage is projected onto a body to replay the dynamic of the game; the projected ball becomes the impulse for the body to move, while the body makes visible the images of the past.
Raven Study
Director/Choreographer: Charlotte Griffin
Animated images bookend this fusion of choreography and percussion bringing the Raven to life within a cinematic canvas. Still from Then/Now by Simon Ellis
The Shape of Water
Director: Cordelia Bavesford; choreographer: Navelle Benjamin
The Shape of Water is a sensory journey revolving around the idea of the mind and its inner workings flowing back and forth like the sea. It explores the symbolic connection between water and the human psyche.
Conexiones
Director/Choreographer: Lidice Abreu
Unhappy with the meaning of her life, she starts a journey looking for answers. She moves assuredly on a path towards finding her self… This way the quest becomes her own transformation.
Freedom
Director: Jeannette Ginslov; choreographer: WGP Company
Still from Moebius by Claudia Kappenberg
Individualisation is a condition of freedom and “seeing the world as it really is” (Ivor Chipkin, 2007). Part video dance, part interviews. Five female dancers, all South Africans, grapple with the notion of freedom, and authenticity.
Then/Now
Director/Choreographer: Simon Ellis
Running, fatigue and the jolt of the present.
Still from Freedom by Jeannette Ginslov & WGP Company
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ADFV-28 DISC FOUR (2008-2009) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Trace
Director/Choreographer: Chirstinn Whyte
The compositing program Shake has been used to render visible the movement patterning of a single performer’s journey across the screen space.
The Greater the Weight
Directors/ Producers: Marlene Millar, Philip Szporer
A reflection on the moment when one stumbles, whether by accident or on purpose. Sometimes you can recover quickly and get up again… sometimes it’s not that easy. Still from Axis by Gene Menger
Palomas En El Atico (Pigeons in the Attic) Director/Producer: Alejandro Valbuena
Palomas En El Atico is an inner monologue between the dichotomy of self-love, guilt, and repression. A cultural and intimate look at the dancer/ choreographer’s human sexual condition.
Axis
Director/Producer/Composer: Gene Menger
Interior. Moving Point.
Stairwell
Director/Choreographer/Producer/Cinematographer: Eran David P. Hanlon
Inspired by the music of Michael Vargas.
PROJECT52 (excerpts) Director: Benoit-Swan Pouffer Still from Stairwell by Eran David P. Hanlon
Project52 is a year-long documentary in 52 one-minute segments; here only 16 segments are shown. Featuring the dancers and collaborators at Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Project52 creates intimate vignettes of the lives of performers and artists. The documentary focuses on human stories and the intersection of life and dance.
Do You Like That?
Co-Creator/Editor: Greg Faller
The choreography for Do You Like That? was created by Susan Mann and shot on 16mm film. Greg Faller edited the footage to create a non-linear dance for the camera. Two musicians projected footage on recording studio walls as a guide for improvisation. The resulting recordings were enhanced and adapted for the work by composer William Kleinsasser.
Still from The Greater the Weight by Marlene Millar & Philip Szporer
ADFV-29 DISC FIVE (2009) DVD, 60 minutes $110
En Cadena (Assembly Line)
Director: Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font
An exercise between the dance and the documentary cinema, a small and tender history,that of subdued beings who wake up, that will connect with themselves and with the person that they have ahead. En Cadena it’s the name that received this singular irruption of the dance in an assembly like with disabled intellectual workers.
Little Ease (Outside The Box) Director: Matt Tarr
Still from She Sleeps by Dianne Reid
This is a new take on a classic piece of choreography, originally conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb. Through the use of the camera, we remove obstacles to the conversation between performer, environment and witness.
Water Burns Sun
Director/Choreographer/Producer: Petra Kuppers
A Butoh dance video sheds light on skin, water, ghosts and the meanings of ‘cripple’. An Olimpias Disability Culture Production.
Caminhada
Directors: Meghan McLyman, Eric Fisher
Still from Caminhada by Meghan McLyman & Eric Fisher
Caminhada begins with the chiming of the old church bells that fill the town of Arcozelo,Portugal every half hour. The journey begins in the family dining room, a place for gathering, and moves nto the village on the cobble stone streets. The work continues on the mountain where a statue of Fatime overlooks the village. Religion holds the town together. An abandoned stone home is the final site followed by a scan of the village that looks frozen in time, but is ever changing.
She Sleeps
Cinematographer/Editor/Soundscape: Dianne Reid
A study of a dancer navigation chronic illness (CFS). She Sleeps was part of the installation work Yours Truly, a City of Darebin artist-inresidence project for the Art of Dance Festival, Melbourne 2009. The project involved the collaboration of five differently-abled dancers working with a director/facilitator,Katrina Rank, and filmmaker, Dianne Reid, to examine public perceptions of difference while exploring the intimate, interior lives of its participants.
She
Director/Choreographer/Producer/ Cinematographer: Kathy Rose
An insectoid fantasy.
HEAD2HEAD Still from Little Ease (Outside the Box) by Matt Tarr
Director/Composer: David Mathias
What is left of a romance after two lovers are separated and torn apart?
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ADFV-30 DISC SIX (2001-2005) DVD, 60 minutes $110 A Canticle For Rain
Choreographer/Producer: Denise Fujiwara
A short dance film, shot on location at the Scarborough Bluffs (Toronto, ON), in the rain, in June 2009. It was created during an intensive tenday workshop, Dance for the Camera (sponsored by the CanAsian International Dance Festival), with master director David Hinton.
Advance
Director: Mitchell Rose
1 dance. 2+ minutes. 50 locations. Still from A Canticle for Rain by Denise Fujiwara
Anamnesis
Directors: Simon Ellis, Bagryana Popov & Cormac Lally
The film visits the volatility of memory within the mind of an elderly woman.
Box
Director/Producer: Ivan Rubio
Box explores the resistance, acquiescence and interdependence of compulsive cohabitation.The duo expresses control through manipulation, surrender through being manipulated,and resistance through contact and partner work.
Brick Says
Director/Choreographer: Zenas Hutcheson Still from Brick Says by Zenas Hutcheson
Brick Says is a film inspired by Louis Kahn and deals with the struggle for form, balance and order.
Figment
Director/Choreographer/Producer: Gabrielle Lamb
Figment is an homage to Joseph Cornell’s collage-boxes, inspired by dreams both in specific imagery and in sense of movement. These collections of seemingly unrelated objects have mysterious yet inevitable connections, the dance-like flow of a surrealist collage. A vertical aspect ratio offers the viewer a glimpse into a box.
Still from Figmenrt by Gabrielle Lamb
ADFV-31 DISC SEVEN (2006-2007) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Fulcrum
Director/ Composer/ Cinematographer: Todd Richmond
Fulcrum is a journey between dream-state and reality, past and present, as two dancers float through alternating scenes of nature and urban environments. Inspired by a 1952 written manuscript “The Soundless Music by Yoko Ono,” the work was filmed at various locations from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to New York and Topaz Arts’ studio in the US. Shot on 16mm, the film makes use of the camera’s 30-second shots, overlapping images using in-camera editing techniques. Still from North Horizon by Thomas Freundlich & Valtteri Raekallio
Let’s Dance
Directors: Malia Bruker and Oscar Molina
Let’s Dance is a sensual black and white film that captures the relief that dance provides in everyday life.
Magnificent Sadness
Director/ Choreographer/ Producer/ Cinematographer: Dianne Reid
A contemporary dance video about longing and loss, adapted from stage choreography. “There are many animals that can express their happiness, but only the human animal has the genius to express a magnificent sadness.” – Shantaram
MIika’s Alley
Director/ Choreographer: Karen Kaeja
Mika’s Alley peers into the imaginary world of a child’s wonderment in her back alley.
North Horizon
Directors/ Choreographers: Thomas Freundlich & Valtteri Raekallio Still from Fulcrum by Todd Richmond
In a silent land of wind, waves and ice, abandoned villages stand at the edge of the northern ocean, home now only to forgotten dreams and the wordless tales ofthe unknown departed. Shot on location in Spitsbergen, North Horizon combinescontemporary dance with the spectacular natural vistas of the Arctic—a unique artistic and environmental journey from the far edge of the world.
Partes
Director: Meritxel Barbera, Inma Garcia
The action presents a choreographic sequence of meetings between five martial artists and two dancers—two ways to understand the body and the movement.
Still from Mika’s Alley by Karen Kaeja
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ADFV-32 DISC EIGHT (2007-2008) DVD, 60 minutes $110
Director: Beth Portnoy
Sometimes the world pushes you in a direction that you ought to have followed yourself. A young woman is led out of a grey existence into a place where she begins to redesign herself with color, energy, and life.
A Broken Puzzle
Director/Videographer/Editor/Sound: Dianne Reid Still from For Water by Natalie Metzger
I am split by your scrutiny, fractured by your fascination, dismantled by your deliberations. I am this piece of blue sky, that dark corner, a disembodied limb, an upturned cart, a winter branch, pieces of possibilities discarded by a sideways glance.
For Water
Director/ Choreographer: Natalie Metzger
A collaboration between dancers from Indonesia and America and inspired by the importance of water to the islands of Indonesia and water-starved California. For Water follows a pilgrimage of five spirits to a scared place to perform their centurial ritual for water.
Isabella
Director/Videographer: Donald Graham
A visual narrative that explores a woman’s story through the poetry of her dance and the words of Patricia Lynn Reilly.
Life In Security Still from Nobody’s Darling by Marta Renzi
Director/ Editor: Gregory R. R. Crosby
The invasive qualities of art and dance find their way into the everyday actions and lives of unsuspecting neighbors.
Nobody’s Darling
Director/ Editor/ Choreographer: Marta Renzi
A duet danced by a pair of independent spirits, whose unsentimental intimacy is both tough and tender. The editing and treatment of the footage underscore graphically their cool sensuality and their nononsense relationship with the camera. The intimate partnering and amplified footfalls heighten the underlying sexual tension.
Still from A Broken Puzzle by Dianne Reid
ADFV-33 DISC NINE (2008-2009) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Soundboard
Sound/ Image: Kasumi
Soundboard investigates the potential for meaning that adheres in increments of physical movement; the marks it leaves through the materials of motion and sound. This Is Not a Love Story
Director/ Editor/ Choreographer: Amy Larson
A quirky romp about two individuals who meet in a heap of laundry. Still from Black Train Is Coming by John Williams
Tracings
Director: Benjamin Kasulke
A surreal and haunted dance film. A woman leads us through the rooms of a crumbling house revealing secrets and mysteries.
Triptych Suite #1
Director/ Producer: MUTE/ Luka Kito & Megan Boyd
A composition of three simultaneous video sequences, wedded together to make one abstract dance. A male and female dancer dodge in and out of the frame in triplicate solos or multiplied duets.
You’re a Target
Director/ Producer: PJ Raval
Interpretive dance gang Little Stolen Moments dances to “You’re A Target” by No Age. Still from Soundboard by Kasumi
Black Train is Coming
Director/ Producer: John Williams
Black Train is Coming is based on the 1926 sermon, ‘Death’s Black Train is Coming’ by Rev. J.D. Gates, one of the most prolific black preachers. Many of his sermons were strong warnings of the hellish punishments that awaited sinners. The film blends this old time sermon with the modern day Flex and Turf dance style.
Still from You’re A Target by PJ Raval
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ADFV-34 DISC TEN (2009) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Breaking the Circle Director: Meg Stewart
Breaking the Circle features Meg Stuart’s company Damaged Goods in costumes by Claudia Hill with the performers in physical experimentation with the costumes.
Chicken Boy
Director/ Editor: Cari Ann Shim Sham
Still from Breaking the Circle by Meg Stewart
Chicken Boy is a modern day metaphor for the journey of the lonely self to find peace with one’s identity. The film references many famous dance film moments from a span of over 60 years and includes a live accordion player, a masked anonymous man and 4 dancing chickens.
Parts Don’t Work
Producer/ Director/ Choreographer: KT Niehoff
Shot on location at Seattle’s (now defunct) Fun Forest amusement park directly under the Space Needle, Lingo’s first dance film follows the story of the heroine as she grapples with her outsider status to a go-go booted, lipstick slinging Girl Gang.
Restaging Shelter
Producers/ Directors: Bruce Berryhill & Martha Curtis (VCU/ VCU Arts)
Still from Sous Les Glaces; Toi by Prascilla Guy
Restaging Shelter chronicles the artistic process of the Urban Bush Women and their founding director, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, as they reconstruct Zollar’s masterwork, Shelter, for the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) dance program. Zollar choreographed Shelter,a dance for six women, in 1988 after witnessing homelessness in different areas of the United States. The current incarnation of the dance examines the same issues, but through a post-Hurricane Katrina lens.
Sous Les Glaces; Toi Director: Priscilla Guy
“Where do you come from?” “Here, there, now, further.”
This dance film explores the poetics of location and belonging. Through her journey of solitude on the North Coast of Québec, Emilie starts to explore the concept of location, reconnecting herself and her body to places and architectures in her new surroundings.
Transit Still from Chicken Boy by Cari Ann Shim Sham
Director/ Editor: Jeff Curtis
Based on the concept of astronomical and star transit, this dance film plays with space, distance and relationships between three bodies—two dancers and a camera—in motion.
ADFV-35 DISC ELEVEN (200?) DVD, 60 minutes $110 1,2,3
Director/ Choreographer: Lynn Neuman
1, 2, 3 probes the psychological and emotional dimensions of the artist creator. The title reflects the overall structure: one minute, one performer, one singer; two minutes, two performers, two singers; three minutes, three performers, three singers.
A Beautiful Day
Director: Dianne Reid Still from Cracks by Alex Pachón
One woman’s developing dance practice. Choreographer/Dancer Dianne Reid met Melinda Smith in 2010 during the production of Perfectly Imperfect—a play about issues surrounding disability and parenting. This was the first time Melinda, who has cerebral palsy, had experienced dancing out of her wheelchair and the beginning of a dance mentorship with Dianne that has developed into a duet performance practice. Dianne and Melinda first performed at the Sambhav Festival in Delhi, India in November 2011 and performed at Atalante, Gothenburg, Sweden and Darpana Academy, Ahmedabad, India in August/ September 2012.
Cracks
Director/ Choreographer/ Dancer: Alex Pachón
Still from La Danse du Vent et des Pierres by Catherine Danae
Every sound generates a movement and every movement produces a sound. Cracks explores this concept with elegant and subtle style. This piece poses an action where rhythm depends completely on the human body’s expressions and vice versa. Using the absurd and surreal to build an unsettling atmosphere, Cracks explores new and unknown forms of personal expression, using the contemporary dance form.
La Danse du Vent et des Pierres
Director/ Choreographer/ Producer/ Composer/ Dancer: Catherine Danae
A site specific study of dance for the camera in Death Valley at the Racetrack Playa. Catherine was intrigued by rocks that mysteriously moved along the desert floor. Though there are many theories on how they move, from aliens to wind, no one has seen it happen. Catherine decided to narrate a rock’s journey.
Sacre/Ilège(s) - Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Still from Sacre/Ilège(s) - Le Sacre du Printemps by Guy Wigmore, Ludovico Chincarini, Marisa C Hayes, Toyo Matsubara, Maurice Lai, Angharad Harrop, Richard James Allen, Diana Heyne, Katxere Medina, Franck Boulègue
Director (UK): Guy Wigmore; Director (ITA): Ludovico Chincarini; Director/ Choreographer (USA/FRA): Marisa C. Hayes. Director/ Choreographer (JPN): Toyo Matsubara. Director (HKG): Maurice Lai; Director/ Choreographer (UK): Angharad Harrop. Director/ Choreographer (AUS): Richard James Allen. Director/ Choreographer (US/FRA): Diana Heyne. Director/ Choreographer (BRA): Katxere Medina. Director/ Choreographer (FRA): Franck Boulègue
In honor of the first centenary of the pivotal composition and ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), Body Cinéma was inspired to pay tribute to this monumental production by examining its universal influence through a screendance lens. Although hundreds of versions of Le Sacre du Printemps have been seen on stages around the world, the ballet and composition have rarely, if at all, been imagined for the screendance medium. Working in collaboration with the Vienna Symphonic Library, whose artist Jay Bacal recreated the orchestral score on a computer, Body Cinéma divided Stravinsky’s legendary music into 13 parts that were then assigned to various international screendance artists. Upon completion, all portions were assembled to create a seamless collage of the entire Le Sacre du Printemps score.
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ADFV-36 DISC TWELVE (200?) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Lost Ambulation
Director/ Producer/ Composer/ Cinematographer: Danielle Short
“Experimental cinematic elements create a choreographic flow that enhances the constrained human movement in this dreamscape.” -Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
No Trespassing
Director: Stefanos Milkidis
Still from Tantrum by Robbie Kinter
Filmed on location in an abandoned barn in the northern California mountains, No Trespassing, features acclaimed dancer and choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman in an extended solo, filmed in one take. The site-specific film exploits the wide central space of the barn as well as its peripheral idiosyncratic elements, including a large pile of stones, holes in the barn’s exterior walls, beams, and ledges.
Pedestrian Crossing
Directors/ Choreographers/ Producers: Kat Cole & Eric Garcia
Still from No Trespassing by Stefanos Milkidis
Something strange lurks beneath the surface of everyday life. Incorporating contemporary dance and pedestrian vocabularies, Pedestrian Crossing follows eccentric and estranged characters that defy group behaviors, drawing upon the already-inherent absurdities and poetics present in San Francisco. In an unprecedented merger of dance, theatricality, and high visual imagery, Pedestrian Crossing reveals unexpected moments of imagination within and among our everyday activities. Walking down a cross walk or sitting next to a stranger on public transportation—even the dull moments of our daily routine can be a catalyst for inspirational art.
See
Director/ Choreographer/ Producer: Rebecca Salzer
See is an exploration of the limits and possibilities of vision. A poetic and provocative statement, this short screendance is based on the director’s quest to expand her visual perception by training her eyes and brain to perceive in stereo for the first time.
Tantrum
Director/ Producer/ Cinematographer/ Videographer: Robbie Kinter
Tantrum take the moment of anger, stubbornness and defiance and amplifies it to it’s limit. The video takes the viewer through the dancers’ cathartic release and eventual resolution using hypnotic, atonal music and slow motion photography.
Still from See by Rebecca Salzer
ADFV-37 DISC THIRTEEN (200?) DVD, 60 minutes $110 Transparente
Director: Diana Salcedo
A magic mountain where eternity and the ephemeral consume the lives of those who visit it. An encounter with their memories and passions will make their last journey.
Stills from Transparente by Diana Salcedo
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art WORKS VIDEO
AW-1 MOLISSA FENLEY 1993, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Since the early eighties, Molissa Fenley has been intriguing audiences and impressing critics with her unique approach to modern dance. Her work is constantly changing, re-defining itself with each new piece, and she is well known for her work with contemporary artists and composers including Phillip Glass. In this tape, Ms. Fenley talks about her choreography and her approach to the creative process. Also included are clips of a number of important pieces in her repertory.
AW-2 ELLEN BROMBERG/THE BLACK DRESS 1993, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Winner of the 1992 Bonnie Bird Choreography Award for North America and an ADF Young Choreographer in 1989, Ellen Bromberg created this work for the camera. Commissioned by PBS in 1989, The Black Dress is a haunting work based on the painting of the same name by Alex Katz. Also included is an interview with Ms. Bromberg about the making of The Black Dress. Ms. Bromberg received The Isadora Duncan Award for choreography in 1988.
AW-3 SALLY SILVERS 1994, DVD, 3 volumes, 60 minutes each, not available separately, $300 Ms. Silvers is a New York-based choreographer whose work has been presented in North America, the United Kingdom and Asia.
Mindy Aloff of Dance Magazine has called her “...among the most talented choreographers to emerge in the decade [of the 1980’s].” Ms. Silvers’ choreography has been supported by the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and most recently, the Jerome Foundation. This video features excerpts from her solo and group work as well as a collaboration with filmmaker Henry Hills.
AW-4 AI-AMOUR, CARLOTTA IKEDA AND HER BUTOH 1994, DVD, 45 minutes $110
This film, directed by Kamal Musale and shot in locations around Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and France is a documentary of the work of choreographer Carlotta Ikeda and her collaboration with dancer Ko Murobushi and the Ariadone Company. With strong images and a bold soundtrack, this film takes the viewer through the chaotic world of Butoh Dance.
Ai-Amour has been awarded the Silver Fipa Award from the 8th International Festival for Audio-Visual Programmes in Nice, France.
AW-6 MAYA DEREN, VOL 1-DANCES FOR THE CAMERA DVD, 50 minutes $110
This is a compilation of some of Maya Deren’s most important films: The Very Eye of Night (1955), Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946), Meditation On Violence (1948), Study For Choreography And Camera (1945). These films address dance as “...the stylization of movement which confers ritual dimension upon functional motion...”
Described as an inheritor of the surrealists, Maya Deren was also one of the earliest pioneers in the adaptation of dance for the camera. As a woman working in the 1940’s and early 50’s, her work anticipated many of the obstacles and biases of subsequent feminist discourse. Her work has long been the focus of film scholars, but has been neglected by those in the world of dance for film and video. Maya Deren’s work with Anthony Tudor and Talley Beatty, among others, represents seminal explorations of the possibilities of dance and the camera.
AW-7 MAYA DEREN, VOL 2-DIVINE HORSEMAN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI Edited 1977 by Teiji and Cherel Ito, DVD, black and white, 60 minutes, $110 In 1947 Maya Deren traveled to Haiti to make a film on trance dancing. Once there, Deren realized that in Voudoun culture dance and prayer were one and the same, and her focus shifted to the Haitian rituals. This film includes footage of both the secular and religious dances of the Congo and Yoruba cults and is an excellent introduction to the Voudoun religion of Haiti. Shot in 16 millimeter black & white film, this documentary features remarkable footage of Haitian Voudoun practices, dancing and rituals. 2015 ADF Catalog 27
AW-8 EPIC (THE LAND WITHIN) & DE L’EAU 1994-1995, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Two video/dance collaborations by Douglas Rosenberg and choreographer Li Chiao-Ping.
Epic (The Land Within) uses text, landscape imagery, and performance by members of the Dziga Vertov Performance Group to present an expressionistic dance only made possible by the camera. De L’Eau, choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping for herself and a male dancer, takes place in an abandoned swimming pool. This piece is athletic, risky, and elegant.
AW-9 ASIAN/ASIAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN DANCE 1995, DVD, 60 minutes, $110
Choreographers Kumiko Kimoto, Sun Ock Lee, Mel Wong and moderator Peggy Choy discuss how Asian and Asian-American issues and identity shape their work.
The panel discussion is intercut with excerpts of work performed by each choreographer. The participants each offer a unique perspective on the challenges facing Asian/ Asian-American choreographers in addressing stereotypes and cultural expectations.
AW-10 CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE-TWO BHARATANATYAM DANCES 1998, DVD, 60 minutes $110
In this tape, Swati and Jyoti Argade perform two classical Indian Dances in the Bharatanatyam style. Natyanjali (An Invocation of Dance) and Krishna Keertana (Song in Praise of Lord Krishna), choreographed by the Dhananjayans of Adyar, Madras, are each shown in their entirety followed by a second version shot in closeup to accentuate the facial expression, footwork, and hand gestures common to this style of narrative dance. Finally, a detailed explanation of the narrative, facial expressions, and gestures is provided by the performers.
AW-11 THE PENNSYLVANIA DANCE THEATRE/ WORLD PREMIERES 1997, DVD, 60 minutes $110
The Pennsylvania Dance Theatre performs four original dances in their entirety, featuring choreography by Megan Brazil, Colin Conner, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, and Ann Van Kuren.
Provides excellent examples of inventive choreography, music, and professional modern dance. Produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting, this is a rare chance to see contemporary choreography in performance. “Pennsylvania Dance Theatre has that athletic, aerobic look that comes with the territory of postmodernism”. —Dance Magazine
AW-12 SHIRLEY CLARKE/DANCES FOR THE CAMERA 1998, DVD, black & white and color, 60 minutes $110
Ms. Clarke’s dance films, though rarely seen, are seminal in the history of dance for the camera. The tape features Dance in the Sun (1953), with Daniel Nagrin, In Paris Parks (1954), Bullfight (1955) and Moment in Love (1956) both with Anna Sokolow and A Visual Diary (1980) with Blondell Cummings. Shirley Clarke began her career as a dancer, having studied and performed with Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, and Hanya Holm. Her background as a dancer is evident in her body of film and video work, in her use of a wandering, improvisational camera and the sense of movement that pervades even her earliest black & white films.
Dancing propelled her into filmmaking and eventually to an Academy Award for her film Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With The World, the 1962 documentary commissioned by President John F. Kennedy.
AW-13 SIX SOLOS: LI CHIAO-PING DANCES 1998, DVD, 60 minutes $110
This documentary, directed by Douglas Rosenberg, follows the progress of The Cross-Cultural Choreography Commissioning Project or The Men’s Project, a bold and innovative undertaking in which dancer Li Chiao-Ping commissioned six male choreographers of international stature to choreograph solo dance works for her.
This project explores how cultural factors including issues of race, gender, age, and sexuality bear on the production of dance. The choreographers collaborating with Ms. Li on The Men’s Project are Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, Joe Goode, Daniel Nagrin, Gus Solomons, Jr., and Mel Wong. Highlights from all six works are featured in the piece as well as interviews with each choreographer. 2015 ADF Catalog 29
AW-14 EISENSTEIN’S CARMEN 1998, DVD, 20 minutes $60
The Last Conversation: Eisenstein’s Carmen Ballet takes its name from a miniature ballet created in 1947 by the famous Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein. A distillation of the final scene of Bizet’s opera Carmen, Eisenstein’s duet for two Bolshoi dancers was one of the last creative acts of this 20th century artistic giant.
This documentary video follows the re-creation of Eisenstein’s ballet, reconstructed by noted dance historian and author Sally Banes in collaboration with the dancers Galina Zakrutkina of the Kirov Ballet and James Sutton. Directed by Sally Banes.
AW-15 VIDEO DANCE 1998, DVD, 30 minutes, $60
This work by director Douglas Rosenberg, a regular collaborator with contemporary choreographers, is a collection of three dances created specifically for the camera. Each work features Rosenberg’s lyrical camera work and suspends the choreography within an elegant frame.
The dances for the camera featured on this tape include works by internationally respected dance artists such as Wind with Eiko and Koma, Bardo (In Extremis) with Molissa Fenley, and My Grandfather Dances with Anna Halprin.
AW-32 THE PHYSICAL TV COMPANY DVD, 30 minutes $60
Based in Sydney, Australia, Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen have been making dance films since 1985. They formed The Physical TV Company in 1997. This collection features three of their over 20 works for the camera: Rubberman Accepts The Nobel Prize (2001)
A superhero who speaks only the language of dance makes an outrageous, graceful, and rambunctious physical acceptance speech. No Surrender (2002)
A young Indigenous woman is invaded, terrorized, and physically attacked by an unseen intruder wielding a camera. Down Time Jaz (2003)
A physical-digital dance about a family using real bodies and digital media to choreograph the impossible.
AW-33 KAEJA D’DANCE DVD, 60 minutes $110
Established in 1991 and founded by artistic directors Allen and Karen Kaeja, Kaeja d’Dance is recognized for creating an eclectic array of vividly original dance performances that simmer with athletic intensity and theatrical imagery. Film is an exciting and vital process of transformation for Allen and Karen Kaeja’s choreographic vision. This volume features: Zummel (1999)
Choreographed by Allen Kaeja, is based upon the first day of families being uprooted from their homes during WWII. Resistance (2001)
Explores the power of the human spirit against the oppression of the Holocaust. Old Country (2003)
Adapted from Allen Kaeja’s successful stage presentation, explores the dynamics of a community confronted with the imminent brutality of war. Departure (2003)
Is the story of the inter-relationship of a couple struggling to come to terms with their imminent separation because of impending war.
AW-35 ARC: DANCE TRILOGY 2000, DVD, 23 minutes $60
ARC is a trilogy of solo dance works created and performed by acclaimed New Zealand choreographer Douglas Wright. In three distinct sections the film charts a transformation: a journey from a primeval landscape of despair, through a bizarre and hilarious confrontation with a talking bird, and the emergence of gravity’s angel in a space of air and delight.
AW-36 KROMA PRODUCTIONS DVD, 60 minutes $110
KROMA Productions is based in Porvoo, Finland. This volume features the following films: Transversum is based on the original choreography of Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo, entitled Come Quickly for I’m Seeing Stars. Directed by Marikki Hakola. Continuum explores themes of war, power and violence. Directed by Marikki Hakola.
Inner Steps is an audiovisual interpretation of the solo A Woman In A Picture, choreographed by Ulla Koivisto for Tarja Ranta. Directed by Kiti Luostarinen. 2015 ADF Catalog 31
AW-37 DANCE FOR CAMERA: ANTHOLOGY 1 DVD, 36 minutes, $60 •
A Dancer Drops Out Of The Sky (The Physical TV Company)
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Deep (Milla Moilanen/KROMA)
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What I Did On My Nervous Breakdown (The Physical TV Company) Scale (Milla Moilanen/KROMA) Beach Dreams (Liz Milwe) Only You (Liz Milwe)
The Wedding (Liz Milwe)
AW-38 MOLISSA FENLEY/PETER BOAL DVD, 24 minutes $60
This intimate and exciting documentary of Peter Boal’s performance of Molissa Fenley’s State of Darkness was produced by Ellen Bromberg. The film reveals the challenges of blending two dance cultures through the restaging of a critically acclaimed solo.
AW-39 SINGING MYSELF A LULLABY DVD, 60 minutes $110
Singing Myself A Lullaby, a one hour documentary, follows West Coast dancer John Henry as he uses HIV/AIDS as a catalyst for an exploration of his life as he approaches death. This is a profoundly moving study of an artist who uses his own life process to speak about grief, loss and a life fully lived.
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AW-40 DANCES FOR TELEVISION 2003, DVD, 30 minutes, $60
A suite of dances made for television from award-winning director Douglas Rosenberg, this project is based on the work of renowned choreographers Sean Curran, Li Chiao-Ping, and Amy Sue Rosen: •
Real Boy (Sean Curran)
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Odyssey (Li Chiao-Ping)
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Hope (Amy Sue Rosen/Derek Bernstein) Residues (Li Chiao-Ping)
AW-41 EXTREME MOVES 2002, DVD, 75 minutes $110
This video features Li Chiao-Ping and members of her company demonstrating her Extreme Moves Training Method , a regimen of strength-building and balance exercises and techniques. TM
This revolutionary curriculum trains dancers to perform rotational, upside down and gyroscopic movements, and to use unusual parts of the body for balance, taking weight and locomotion.
AW-42 DORIS CHASE DVD, 60 minutes $110
Painter and teacher, sculptor of monumental kinetic forms, Doris Chase is best known as a pioneer in the field of dance for the camera.
Beginning in the 1970s, she produced more than fifty videos now regarded as key works in the history of video art. This collection features her most important works.
AW-43 AMY GREENFIELD DVD, 30 minutes, $60
Amy Greenfield has been pushing the boundaries of dance and cinema since the early 1970s.
Her work is known for its earthy rawness and feminist point of view. This collection of her early work includes Element, Transport, and other landmark cinedances.
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AW-44 VENOUS FLOW & GRACE 2003, DVD, 30 minutes $60
Venous Flow weaves first person narrative with contemporary dance to tell the story of a community of dancers and artists and their resolution to overcome personal trauma.
Grace is a large group piece performed by Li Chiao-Ping Dance and a community of elders shot on a frozen lake in winter, revealing the stark beauty of winter as well as the warmth of community.
AW-46 MARY ANTHONY DVD, $110
Mary Anthony is a film by Tonia Shimin. This film traces the story and career of Mary Anthony, a vibrant modern dance pioneer who, for over 50 years, continues to inspire, through her teaching, spirit and perseverance, an international community of dancers and people in all walks of life.
Featuring excerpts from 11 works of choreography and interviews with Mary Anthony and luminaries in the dance and theater world, this vital work explores her roots in Kentucky to her passionate reasons for coming to New York to dance with twenty five dollars in her pocket. From her early years as assistant to Hanya Holm to her presence as a dance icon of New York, Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance sheds light on the development and work of an extraordinary and seemingly immortal artist and on an important era of American modern dance. DVD features include: main program, separate links to each scene, Mary Anthony biography and career highlights, list of choreographic works, list of dancers who have worked with Mary Anthony
AW-47 BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE DVD, $110
Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930’s Harlem. Together again, after a few decades hiatus, they’re dancing to standing ovations and are as sassy as they ever were.
AW-48 BEHIND THE SCENES VOL 3: MUSIC AND DANCE DVD, $110
David Parsons, a choreographer for the American Ballet Theatre and former dancer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, shows how dances can begin with the simplest everyday movements. JoAnn Falletta, one of America’s most promising young conductors, shows how a symphony orchestra uses layers of sound to create music.
Jazz composer and pianist Allen Toussaint demonstrates the art of musical composition by writing a melody at the piano and then recording it in a studio. Bobby McFerrin lends a hand! Max Roach, the legendary jazz percussionist and composer, brings the accent to music, using layered and funky rhythms to turn you on by feeling the beat! Hosted by magicians Penn and Teller, Behind the Scenes goes behind the scenes to discover the creative process with renowned artists.
AW-49A DANCE FOR THE CAMERA 1 DVD, $110
Dance for Camera presents six films that are among the most outstanding examples of a new film genre that merges dance and film. Selected from festivals in Europe and North America, and winners of over 17 international awards, these films present an array of humor, drama, beauty and rhythm not usually seen on film or stage made by young emerging artists from around the world. Films Include:
Reines d’un Jour, Switzerland, 26 minutes . Choreographers: Marie Nespolo, Christine Kung; Director: Pascal Magnin Measure, United States, 7 minutes . Choreographer: Dayna Hanson; Directors: Gaelen Hanson and Danya Hanson Rest in Peace, UK & Netherlands, 9 minutes. Choreographer: Hans Hof Ensemble; Director: Annick Vroom; Producer: Rodney Wilson
A Village Trilogy, Canada, 24 minutes. Choreographer and director: Laura Taler Cornered, Canada, 5 minutes. Producer/director/choreographer: Michael Downing
Contrecoup, Switzerland, 24 minutes. Choreography: Guilherme Botelho; Director: Pascal Magnin 2015 ADF Catalog 35
AW-49B DANCE FOR THE CAMERA 2 DVD, $110
From a Butoh-inspired portrait of a demented aristocrat to a sensual bedroom metamorphosis, to an intimate moment interrupted by a burst water pipe, this latest collection of award-winning dance films from around the world will “bewitch, bedazzle and bewilder.� (Deirdre Towers, Dance on Camera Festival Director) For over five decades now international dancers and filmmakers have been creating these short experimental films, which generally have only been seen in festivals and on foreign television broadcasts. First Run Features is pleased to once again bring these fine works to North American audiences with the second in a series of compilations of dance films.
Dance for Camera 2 presents seven films that are among the most outstanding examples of a collaborative cinematic style that merges the dynamics of both dance and film.
AW-50 THE DANCER DVD, $110
The Dancer is a film by Donya Feuer that follows the young and gifted Katja Bjorner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
Filmed with an eye toward conveying the physical aspects of dancing, the pain, sweat, and tears, as well as the exquisite beauty, The Dancer captures the fierce determination and struggle that goes into the desire to dance at the highest level.
AW-51 ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS BALLET DVD, $110
Etoiles celebrates the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet by weaving together rehearsals and tour snapshots of classical ballets as well as contemporary works.
Celebrated filmmaker Nils Tavernier delves into the psychology of dance by talking candidly with some of the biggest stars in dance today, who give perspectives on how and why they endure the emotional and physical hardships of the drive to be on stage.
AW-52 LAST DANCE DVD, $110
Powerhouse creative forces unite and sparks fly in Mirra Bank’s award-winning Last Dance. Bank follows the dazzling Pilobolus Dance Theater and legendary author-illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) as they collaborate on the dancetheater work that honors a haunting holocaust legacy. Last Dance weaves rehearsal footage, probing interviews, chilling Nazi propaganda footage and breathtaking performance into a thrilling insight into the creative process.
The film holds nothing back as philosophies clash, confrontations abound, and artistic disaster threatens at every turn. But in the end we are rewarded as Pilobolus dancers, who are pure bolts of force and grace, give life to a stark and stunning dancework.
AW-53 SACRED STAGE: THE MARIINSKY THEATER DVD, $110
Set against the backdrop of the magical White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Sacred Stage features the best in Russian symphonic music, ballet and opera at Russia’s premier theater—the Mariinsky, also known as the Kirov. Sacred Stage explores what the theater has meant to Russian and Soviet culture and how it has somehow maintained its artistic excellence through war, revolution and the collapse of Communism. Sacred Stage also looks at the life and work of Maestro Valery Gergiev, artistic and theater director at the Mariinsky, and captures the excitement of his world—a world populated with artists, socialites, financiers, politicians and celebrities. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas, Sacred Stage is illustrated with stunning performances from the opera and ballet, as well as candid interviews with luminaries, scholars and performers. Featuring: Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor; Yevgeny Nikitin, Opera Singer; Yulia Makhalina, Ballet Dancer; George Tsypin, Opera Set Designer; Elizabeth Kendall, Dance Critic and Scholar; and Placido Domingo.
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AW-54 FIVE DANCE FILMS ABOUT PLACE DVD, $110
Five Dance Films About Place consists of five site-specific dance films shot on location in rural Wisconsin: Site, Aroma, Terrain, Sense and Verge. Each vignette is created in and of the landscape and local architecture and speaks to metaphors of the senses, relationships, and the changing of the seasons.
Emmy-nominated director Douglas Rosenberg and Gemininominated director Allen Kaeja collaborate with Li Chiao-Ping and Karen Kaeja, as well as guest artists from Kaeja d’Dance and others including Heidi Latsky, David Dorfman, Lisa Race and performers and musicians from the United States and Canada. This suite of films is among the first high-definition dance films shot in North America and was funded in part by BravoFACT! and Wisconsin Public Television.
AW-55 ARTISTS IN EXILE: A STORY OF MODERN DANCE IN SAN FRANCISCO 2000, DVD, 85 minutes, $110
Artists In Exile: A story of Modern Dance in San Francisco chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film begins with dance revolutionary Anna Halprin and highlights seminal Bay Area choreographers including Mangrove, Tumbleweed, ODC/San Francisco, Margaret Jenkins, Dance Brigade, Joe Goode and Contraband. The film addresses the special nature of the Bay Area’s social, political and environmental climate; the marginalization of Bay Area artists due to the New York dance establishment and the unique and vital dance community that continues to grow.
AW-56 DOUGLAS ROSENBERG: COLLECTED VIDEO 1984-1988 2009, DVD, $60
This is a collection of seminal work by Douglas Rosenberg created during the heady days of San Francisco’s video art scene. The work, which is performative and text-driven, has recently been remastered to digital video. Includes Parentheses (1984), Strike Zone (1986), Tempters Challenge (1986), La Mecanique (1987).
AW-57 DOUGLAS ROSENBERG VIDEO + DANCE 2009, DVD, $60
This DVD is a collection of short videodance work, some of which was previously unavailable. The pieces range from the experimental 9 Variations For Hilary, (an homage to Hilary Harris’ famous dance film), to the classic My Grandfather Dances (with Anna Halprin). All work is directed by Douglas Rosenberg. Includes 4/1 (2002), 9 Variations for Hilary (2002), Periphery (2002), My Grandfather Dances (1998), Bardo (1987).
AW-58 DANCING WITH THE CAMERA 1982, DVD, 30 minutes $110
This documentary, made in 1982 and written by Sally Banes and Noel Carroll, explores the roots of Cinedance by looking at works from a variety of trailblazers. Dancing with the Camera is essential for any educator interested in the genre of screendance. Starting by defining dance for the camera, this video expands to show the relationship between choreographic processes in dance and editing processes in film. This documentary provides a clear overview of how the techniques of filming, editing, camera movement, points of view, scale, fast and slow motion and multiple exposure can be used to sculpt the work. In the examples of Carolyn Brown, Yoshiko Chuma, Doris Chase, Maya Deren, Amy Greenfield, and Hilary Harris, the whole world can become a stage for dance and the impossible is made possible.
This video includes Dune Dance (Carolyn Brown), The Girl Can’t Help It (Yoshiko Chuma), Moon Gate (Doris Chase), Nine Variations on a Dance (Hilary Harris), Pueblo Presence (Hugh and Suzanne Johnston), Roamin’ I (Charles Atlas), Study in Choreography for the Camera (Maya Deren), Transport (Amy Greenfield), Trio A (Yvonne Rainer).
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AW-59 THREE FILMS BY TONIA SHIMIN DVD, $60
Poetic and distinctive, this collection of films by award winning filmmaker Tonia Shimin offers a poignant, expressive view of our brief passage through time, that embraces our connection to the natural world. Delicately nuanced, Of Time and the Spirit is a dance of memory that seems to grow as if through a chambered nautilus opening to the world. Featuring Nancy Colahan, an original member of The White Oak Project, with a musical score by the acclaimed composer Karen Tanaka, this film takes us into the realm of performance as it interfaces with the poetry of nature and the inner life of the dancer.
Passage, filmed on site at the ancient cave dwellings of Tsankawi, New Mexico, is a meditative homage to the land and to ancient peoples worldwide.
Tracing a dancer’s pregnancy, Who Called Me To This Dance? evokes the transformational nature of creation as it celebrates life as an expressionistic journey that is filmed within interior landscapes, at sand dunes and underwater. As a collection, Three Films by Tonia Shimin, transports us through nature, time and place, to an imaginative and aesthetic vision of life.
AW-60 SEVEN SOLOS: A DOCUMENTARY 2011, DVD, 60 minutes $110
Seven Solos follows the process as the dancer Li Chiao-Ping prepares to perform a concert of solos by seven renowned 21st century choreographers. Ms. Li explores the diversity of creative expression manifested in the solo female form by female choreographers Cynthia Adams, Molissa Fenley, Heidi Latsky, Victoria Marks, Bebe Miller, Elizabeth Streb and June Watanabe.
Highlights from all seven works are featured as well as interviews with each choreographer in which they speak about their process in creating for the solo form. Seven Solos, by Emmy-nominated Director Douglas Rosenberg, premiered at the 2012 Dance on Camera Festival in New York and is a riveting look at the rigorous, yet creative forces at work in the preparation for an evening length solo concert as each piece pushes Li’s abilities and technical skills to the edge.
“A who’s who of postmodern choreographers.” -Susan Kepecs, Dance Magazine
AW-61 HERE NOW WITH SALLY GROSS 2015, DVD, 56 minutes $100
An original member of the famed Judson Church Group, Sally Gross has been making spare, elegant dances that often interact with live music and the visual arts for over 50 years. This documentary follows Ms. Gross as she works with a group of students to create a site-specific project within an exhibition by the acclaimed artist Leo Villareal. The film includes intimate interactions between Ms. Gross and her students as well as recollections of her life in dance. Through the quietude of Ms. Gross, whose work is both minimalist and humanist, the film offers us a glimpse at the value of teaching, mentoring and being present within the creative process.
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ADFVIDEO American Dance Festival
VIDEO
Please email rosend@education.wisc.edu with your order or print and mail this form with highlighted selections
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ADFV-1 LUCAS HOVING
$110
AW-35 ARC: A DANCE TRILOGY
ADFV-3 DONALD MCKAYEL
$110
AW-37 DANCE FOR CAMERA ANTHOLOGY 1
ADFV-2 ANNA SOKOLOW
ADFV-4 VIDEO/DANCE VOL 1
ADFV-5 DANCING ON THE EDGE VOL 1 ADFV-6 DANCING ON THE EDGE VOL 2 ADFV-7 ETHEL BUTLER ADFV-8 BETTY JONES
ADFV-9 TALLEY BEATTY
ADFV-10 DANIEL NAGRIN
ADFV-11 ERICK HAWKINS
ADFV-12 EIKO AND KOMA-LAND ADFV-13 MARK DENDY
ADFV-14 TRISHA BROWN ADFV-15 STEVE PAXTON
ADFV-16 DANCING ON THE EDGE VOL 3 ADFV-17 DANCING ON THE EDGE VOL 4 ADFV-18 WITH MY RED FIRES ADFV-19 NEW DANCE
ADFV-20 EMPEROR JONES ADFV-21 FLICKERS
ADFV-22 MEREDITH MONK ADFV-23 PAULINE KONER ADFV-24 PILOBOLUS
ADFV-25 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 1 ADFV-26 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 2 ADFV-27 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 3 ADFV-28 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 4 ADFV-29 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 5 ADFV-30 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 6 ADFV-31 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 7 ADFV-32 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 8 ADFV-33 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 9
ADFV-34 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 10 ADFV-35 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 11
ADFV-36 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 12 ADFV-37 SCREENDANCE ANTHOLOGY VOL 13
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AW-36 KROMA PRODUCTIONS
AW-38 MOLISSA FENLEY/PETER BOAL AW-39 SINGING MYSELF A LULLABY
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AW-40 DANCES FOR TELEVISION
$60
AW-41 EXTREME MOVES
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AW-42 DORIS CHASE
$60
AW-43 AMY GREENFIELD
$60
AW-44 VENOUS FLOW
$110
AW-46 MARY ANTHONY
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AW-47 BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE
$110
AW-48 BEHIND THE SCENES VOL 3
$110
AW-49A DANCE FOR CAMERA 1
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AW-49B DANCE FOR CAMERA 2
$110
AW-50 THE DANCER
$110
AW-51 ETOILES
$110
AW-52 LAST DANCE
$110
AW-53 SACRED STAGE
$110
AW-54 FIVE DANCE FILMS ABOUT PLACE
$110
AW-55 ARTISTS IN EXILE
AW-56 DOUGLAS ROSENBERG 1984-1988
AW-57 DOUGLAS ROSENBERG VIDEO + DANCE AW-58 DANCING WITH THE CAMERA
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AW-59 THREE FILMS BY TONIA SHIMIN
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AW-60 SEVEN SOLOS: A DOCUMENTARY
$110
AW-61 HERE NOW WITH SALLY GROSS
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Within the USA, Canada & Mexico: $6 for the first DVD and $3 for each additional DVD All other countries: $10 for the first DVD and $6 for each additional DVD
Please make checks payable to ADF Video and mail to ADF Video, 5973 Purcell Road, Oregon, WI 53575
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AW-1 MOLISSA FENLEY
$110
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AW-3 SALLY SILVERS
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AW-6 MAYA DEREN VOL 1
$110
AW-8 EPIC AND DE L’EAU
$60
AW-10 CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE
$110
AW-12 SHIRLEY CLARKE
$110
AW-14 EISENSTEIN’S CARMEN
$60
AW-32 THE PHYSICAL TV COMPANY
$60
AW-2 ELLEN BROMBERG
$60
AW-4 AI-AMOUR
$110
AW-7 MAYA DEREN VOL 2
$110
AW-9 ASAIN/ASAIN-AM PERSPECTIVES
$110
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AW-11 PENNSYLVANIA DANCE THEATRE
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AW-13 SIX SOLOS: LI CHIAO-PING
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AW-33 KAEJA D’DANCE
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ADFVIDEO American Dance Festival
VIDEO
ADF VIDEO AND ART WORKS VIDEO are run by Douglas Rosenberg.
Douglas is a founding editor of the newly published International Journal of Screendance, an EMMY nominated director and the recipient of the prestigious Phelan Art Award in Video. He was awarded the Director’s Prize at the International Jewish Video Festival for his film, My Grandfather Dances with choreographer Anna Halprin and received an IZZIE Award for his work on the intermedia project, Singing Myself A Lullaby, a collaboration with Ellen Bromberg and John Henry.
Douglas is well-known for his collaborations with choreographers including Molissa Fenley, Sean Curran, Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Li Chiao-Ping. Eiko and Koma and others. In 2009, his film, Of the Heart, a collaboration with Allen Kaeja and Karen Kaeja of Kaeja d’Dance, was a finalist for the Jury Prize at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York and was screened at numerous festivals around the world. 2014 saw the release of Douglas’ most recent film, Here Now with Sally Gross, which received.....
Douglas’ writing has been published in LEONARDO and other journals and he is the founder and director of the Dancing For the Camera Festival of Dance Film and Video hosted by the American Dance Festival. He has served on numerous panels and juries and has written a book addressing the theory and practice of dance for the camera, published by Oxford Press in 2011. Retrospectives of his video work have been screened at the Festival de VideoDanza, Buenos Aires, and the Agite y Sirve Festival of Video Dance in Mexico. Douglas Rosenberg lectures and teaches workshops in video dance across the US and abroad. If you are interested in presenting Douglas at your institution, please contact him c/o ADF Video. 5973 Purcell Rd. Oregon, WI 53575 USA
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