Thursday, November 2
8 pm
World premiere screening of Roxana, directed by Moze Mossanen and choreographed by Roberto Campanella and featuring Greta Hodgkinson, Sheila McCarthy, Christopher Body and Rex Harrington. Also Revolver Tango and Tell Me Everything.
10 pm
The Anatomic Cabaret hosted by Keith Cole with musical interventions by the musical collective Hank. This event tramples all over the intersections of movement and the media arts with video and live performance collusions by Cathy Gordon, RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane, Pepper Highway, Learie McNicolls, Paul Hutcheson, KIDS ON TV, Ina unt Ina, Laura Cowell, and more.
Friday, November 3
7 pm
Perreault Dancer, directed by Tim Southam.
Also Corps et instruments.
This program is presented in collaboration with Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation. A Q and A with Dancemakers Artistic Director Michael Trent and director Tim Southham will follow the screening.
9 pm
Global Moves
International work including the Canadian premiere of Thierry De Mey’s One Flat Thing Reproduced by William Forsythe.
Also, the Canadian premiere of the Oscar-nominated Phoenix Dance, a short documentary about Homer Avila who continued dancing after losing a leg to cancer.
Saturday, November 4
7 pm
Fifteen Candles: The Best of Moving Pictures
Dance on film has come a long way in fifteen years. Moving Pictures
curators revisit a handful of works that shook us up. This program
celebrates the global ground breakers and local heroes who have called us
home. Cake will be served and champagne glasses raised - join artists and
staff as they toast the past and welcome the future!
9 pm
Dancing Shadows: New Canadian Dance on Film and Video
Collaborators and co-conspirators include John Lauener and Barbara Pallomina, Jenn Goodwin, Sarah Doucet and Deborah Van Slet, Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar, Jessica Joy Wise and Stephanie Thompson, Michael Caines and Janette Platana, Kokoro Dance from Vancouver and many more.
All screenings take place at The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West Tickets are $10 at the door and go on sale half an hour before show time.
