It's time for DANCE:FILM's second outing since its hugely successful debut in 2007 as DANCE:FILM 07. Oh how we laughed, danced, enjoyed films and watched in awe at the displays of
breakdancing in 2007! Now Scotland's dance film festival is back for more in
a bigger and bolder form!
Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance and Filmhouse, Scotland 's leading independent cinema, have come
together again with the support of Scottish Screen to bring you DANCE:FILM 09.
DANCE:FILM 09 is full of musicals, documentaries,
shorts and films just featuring dance for the sake of it. Keeping to the DANCE:FILM format, we open with a Hollywood
musical, the Fred and Ginger classic Swing Time and end it all with
classic 80s dance film cheese, Flashdance with a myriad of dance
on-screen gems in between. Highlights include the Scottish premiere of Perhaps
Love (Ai Ru Guo), the multi-award winning Chinese musical from 2005
in only its second UK screening and the ultimate burlesque classic Gypsy,
not seen on the big screen for many years.
There will also be
talks about dance in Bollywood films, dance in Hollywood musicals and, of course, lots of dance
workshops. You can learn 80's Jazz, Fred Astaire Tap, Burlesque and Cabaret,
Cuban Rumba, Rocking, Bollywood and Fosse, all in the name of dance on screen.
To top it all off, the Diamond Circles Jam breakdance session returns in
association with our screening of b-boy documentary Inside the Circle in
its Scottish premiere, with Omar from the film featuring in the main exhibition
battle.
So come along and
celebrate the wonders of dance on screen with us in all its many glorious
forms!
As they say, What a Feeling!
Listings
Information (Further details available online at www.dancefilmscotland.com)
FILMS (Four sections - Musicals, Documentaries, Let's Dance, Shorts)
MUSICALS
Opening Film Swing
Time
Thu 21 May I 20.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
1936, USA, 103 mins (U)
Directed by
George Stevens
Starring: Fred
Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Scottish Premiere
Perhaps Love (Ai
Ru Guo)
Fri 22 May I 18.15
I £6.50 (£4.90)
2005,
China/Malaysia/Hong Kong, 107 mins (PG)
Directed by Peter
Chan
Starring: Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun, Jackie Cheung
Supported by The
Confucius Institute for Scotland
© Licensed by
Celestial Filmed Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved
Om Shanti Om
Sat 23 May I 17.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
2007, India, 162 mins (12A)
Directed by Farah
Khan
Starring:
Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kirron Kher
The Young Girls
of Rochefort
(Les
demoiselles de Rochefort)
Sun 24 May I 13.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
1967, France, 120 mins (PG)
Directed by
Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly
Gypsy
Mon 25 May I 18.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
1962, USA, 143 mins (PG)
Directed by
Mervyn le Roy. Starring Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell
A rare screening
shipped all the way from the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
DOCUMENTARIES
In Cuba They're
Still Dancing &Routes double bill
Sun 24 May I 16.15
I £4.90 (£3.30)
An interesting
double bill of documentaries looking at dance and how it affects societies and
cultures. Barbara Orton, Producer of In Cuba They're Still Dancing and
Alex Reuben, Director of Routes, will be at the screening to introduce
and give a Q&A after.
In Cuba They're Still Dancing
1994, UK, 37 mins (PG) Directed by Richard
Downes
Routes
2007, UK, 48 mins (PG) Directed by Alex Reuben Scotland's
Dance Film Festival www.dancefilmscotland.com DANCE:FILM 09 c/o Dance Base, 14-16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
The Rock: Super Dynamite Soul
Sun 24 May I 19.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
2007, USA, 47 mins (PG) Directed by Ken Swift
& Mike Toth
Ken Swift and
Burn One for VII Gems Rock Division will be introducing the film and will give
a Q&A session after. In association with The Breakin Convention.
An Invitation to
Dance: Body & Taboo
Tue 26 May I 18.15
I £6.50 (£4.90)
2006, Germany, 89mins. German with English subtitles
(PG)
Directed by
Gerhard Schick
Supported by The
Goethe Institut, Glasgow
Café de Los
Maestros
Wed 27 May I 18.15
I £6.50 (£4.90)
USA / Brazil / UK / Argentina, 90mins (PG)
Directed by
Miguel Kohan
Scottish Premiere
Inside the Circle
Fri 29 May I 18.15
I £6.50 (£4.90)
2007, USA, 100mins (PG) Directed by Marcy Garriot
Producer and
Director Marcy Garriot, and b-boy Omar will introduce the screening and give a
Q&A after.
LET'S DANCE
Scottish Premiere
Metropolis Video
Dance & Thursdays
Fictions (double bill)
Thu 28 May I 18.15
I £6.50 (£4.90)
A double bill of
films that take you on a unique visual journey...
Metropolis
Video Dance
2007, Chile, 30mins (PG)
Directed by
Carlos Dittborn Callejas
Thursdays
Fictions
2006, Australia, 51mins (PG)
Directed by
Richard James Allen
Closing Film Flashdance
Sat 30 May I 22.00
I £6.50 (£4.90)
1983, USA, 95 mins (15)
Directed by
Adrian Lyne Starring: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri
By popular demand-
one of the ultimate dance films of all time! What a feeling!
TINY DANCE FILM
SERIES
Available to view
for free in the foyers of Dance Base and Filmhouse during DANCE:FILM 09
The Tiny Dance Film
Series is a collaboration between choreographer Peter Kyle and sound artist
James Garver, featuring dancer Holley Farmer. It consists of very short and
very small dance films screened on iPods in a darkened kiosk for an audience of
one. The result is a uniquely personal, interactive experience for the viewer,
which evokes the nostalgia of an old-time penny arcade. Scotland's Dance
Film Festival www.dancefilmscotland.com DANCE:FILM 09 c/o Dance Base, 14-16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
SHORTS
An open call for
submissions resulted in a fantastic array of shorts submitted from
all over the world.
You will see the many different guises of dance films being made
by visual artists,
dancers and filmmakers today. More details of the programmes
will be available
online at www.dancefilmscotland.com
Dance for Camera
Sat 23 May I 11.30
I £4.90 (£3.30)
A programme of dance
shorts featuring dance/movement specifically choreographed
for the camera.
Dance with Camera
Sat 23 May I 13.30
I £4.90 (£3.30)
A programme of dance
shorts featuring dance/movement with the use of the camera
integral to the
choreography.
Is it Dance?
Sat 30 May I 11.30
I £4.90 (£3.30)
Films with a visual
arts emphasis with a more experimental edge. Challenging.
New works
Sat 30 May I 13.30
I £4.90 (£3.30)
A showcase programme
of works made since DANCE:FILM07. Guest curated by Gaia Mucci, shorts programmer
from the Edinburgh International Film Festival
DANCE
WORKSHOPS
Swing Time: Tap
Like Fred!
With Jo Turbitt
Sun 24 May |
10.30-12.30 | General | £14 (£11)
Perhaps Love -
Bolly-Fosse Workshop
With Chris
Stuart-Wilson
Sun 24 May |
11.30 -13.30 | General | £14 (£11)
Gypsy: Let Me
Entertain You
With Lily White
Sun 24 May |
13.00 - 15.00 | General | £14 (£11)
Om Shanti Om: Bollywood Workshop
With Nazhat Ahmed
Sun 24 May |
14.45 - 16.45 | Level 1 | £14 (£11)
Gypsy: You Gotta
Have A Gimmick - From Chorus Girl to Starlet
With Ministry of Burlesque Academy
Sun 24 May |
15.30-17.30 | General | £14 (£11)
The Rock: Rocking
Workshop
With Ken Swift
Sun 24 May |
17.15 - 18.30 | General | £14 (£11) Scotland's Dance Film Festival www.dancefilmscotland.com DANCE:FILM 09 c/o Dance Base, 14-16
Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
In Cuba They're Still Dancing: Cuban Rumba
workshop
With Yami Cuedo
Ferera
Tue 26 May |
18.30-20.30 | General | £14 (£11)
Flashdance: 80s
Jazz Workshop
With Chris
Stuart-Wilson
Sat 30 May |
15.30-17.30 | General | £14 (£11)
EVENTS
Who Made Hollywood Dance?
Sat 23 May I
13.00 - 15.00 I Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art I £6
With Agnes Ness
Agnes is a
freelance lecturer in art and dance history and currently teaches Contextual
Studies and Dance Appreciation at Dance for All and various dance-related
courses for the OLL department of Edinburgh University.
Dancing Down ‘D'
Decades:
The Bollywood
Style!
Sun 24 May I
13.00 - 15.00 I Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art I £6
PLEASE NOTE THAT
THIS EVENT WAS LISTED INCORRECTLY IN THE PRINTED DANCE:FILM 09 BROCHURE. THE
EVENT IS ON SUN 24 MAY NOT TUE 26 MAY.
With Piyush Roy
Piyush is a
Mumbai-based film journalist, writer and critic, currently pursuing his MSc in
Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh
The Green Table (screening and talk)
Sat 30 May I
15.30 I Filmhouse I £5
2000, Germany, 37mins plus talk. no dialogue. PG
Directed by
Thomas Grimm. Talk with Sheila Hargreaves
Supported by the
Goethe Institut, Glasgow
Moving In
Circles/Random Aspekts/DANCE:FILM 09 present
Diamond Circles
Jam Session
Sat 30 May I
15.00-19.00 I City Nightclub I £10
For
more information and Full details of the
programme are available online at www.dancefilmscotland.com