Events
October 19, 2011
Film and dance partner for an evening on camera
The presentation of works from the Dance Films Association is curated by Blake Beckham '01C and Malina Rodriguez and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies.
The Emory Dance Program presents "Dance for Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera," Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Oxford Road Presentation Room.
The presentation of works from the Dance Films Association is curated by Blake Beckham '01C and Malina Rodriguez and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies.
"Curating this program has been a wonderful way for me to continue my relationship with Emory's creative community," says Beckham.
Beckham and Rodriguez are co-directors of The Lucky Penny organization, which aims "to build and diversify audiences through cross-disciplinary movement based arts," and, says Beckham, "There is no place I'd rather accomplish this than Emory."
The five films for the evening were selected, in part, based on connections to the ever-expanding Atlanta dance community.
Dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham, a recent Coca-Cola artist in residence at Emory, appears in "Quarantine," a film by Gabri Christa. Abraham plays a young man exploring an abandoned quarantine building for African slaves under the watchful eye of an elder.
The evening will also include a work by Emory alumna Natalie Metzger '07C, a choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Metzger's "For Water" is a collaboration between dancers from Indonesia and America, and is inspired by the importance of water to the islands of Indonesia and to water-starved California.
This program is free and open to the public. For more details, visit www.dance.emory.edu.
