Scotland's Dance Film Festival Programme
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
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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