Links We Like

Links We Like

Curated this week by Rosie Trump, who founded the 3rd Coast Festival (and a lot more, see her bio at the end of this post).  This one is all about dance in film.  Lucky us on this fine Friday!!

I spend a lot of time thinking about dance on film, so for this week’s Links We Like, I thought I would share a few of my favorite “unexpected” dance moments from film.  While not much can top West Side Story and All That Jazz in my choreographic eyes, there is something so amazing about a surprise moment where nothing but dance could do in an otherwise dramatic film.

1. The Madison scene from Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) the 1964 film by Jean-Luc Godard.  This classic will put Mad Men to shame and when the music cuts out—just brilliant!

2. The Twist scene from Pulp Fiction the 1994 film by Quentin Tarantino.  This scene was directly inspired by Godard’s Bande à part.  Overrated?  Probably, but the sexual tension conveyed in the scene is ridiculous.

 3. The Wedding scene from The Deer Hunter the 1978 film Michael Cimino.  This is what every wedding I attended before the age 25 looked like.

*Bonus: a few moments of Christopher Walken dancing at the end of the clip.

4. Pina Bausch in Talk to Her (Hable con ella) the 2002 by film Pedro Almodóvar. Before the 3D tour de force, Pina, there was Talk to Her.  I have to share two clips from this film the first is so great because you see Pina Bausch herself performing Café Müller.  The second clip is of the company.

Rosie Trump is on the Board of Directors for Frame Dance as well as a dance choreographer, filmmaker, performer, educator and the artistic director of  Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice in dance and video media.   Trump’s work stems from an interest in representations of femininity, domesticity, identity and intimacy.   Her films have been presented by Dance Camera West, Dance New Amsterdam, Motion Captured and Anatomy Riot.  She is the founder and curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival.  www.rosietrump.org

New Yorkers

Performances/Screenings

Check this out if you’re in New York.  We screened two of these films in 3rd Coast Dance Film Festival just two weeks ago!

curated by Michael Bodel
October 7
SUN at 7:00pm

FRAMEWORKS is an ongoing series providing a vital stage for excellent new works of choreography for the camera. Films are selected from down the street and across the ocean and submission is free.

FRAMEWORKS accepts submissions of original works of choreography for the camera, less than 20 minutes in length and made within the last 7 years. Videos of staged work and documentary films are fabulous but won’t be reviewed in this series. On average, 30-75 films are submitted for each screening, and 4-7 are selected. Submission is and always will be free.

This year’s films are:

Transit
Jeffrey Curtis, Greg Catellier

Scout Hut
Jennie MaryTai Liu

Chroma
Jeremy Moss

The Eye of the Beholder
Azure Productions

Errances
Audrey Bergeron and The Broke Lab

WORLD PREMIERE
Bloodlines
Charli Brissey / Maeko Project

Knead
Disa (Malin Sandberg and Anton Wretling)

Photo by Justyna Calińska from “InSide” by Anna Zuzanna Błaszczyk. American Premiere at FRAMEWORKS, Spring 2012

More press on dance and Autism

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Check out this ten year old who has memorized the entire Swanhilde’s masquerade solo in “Coppélia.”

I’ve done, and am still doing work with kids with neurological differences.  Dance is powerful, especially with kids who learn differently.  Here is an article on the work I do.

Here is one I wrote about the work I do with students on the autistm spectrum.

Enjoy!  Dance is important and crucial to our development.