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Tour Program, 2006 (below)
BMoCA Program, 2006
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th Street • Boulder, CO, USA
Monday & Tuesday, June 5th & 6th, 2006, 7:30 pm
    
Showing both Monday & Tuesday, June 5th & 6th, 2006, 7:30 pm
Screen Capture from Aqua Madora  
Aqua Madora, 2006, 30 min, mini-DV
Directed by Ana Baer
Produced by Avant Media Performance
Choreography by Ana Baer and Dani Beauchamp
Music composed and performed by Randy Gibson
Synopsis: Live dance, live music and projected images, Aqua Madora is an exploration of thefirst two of the five stages of mourning. The music, though composed, is improvised based on the feeling of the evening - unique intonation quarter tones evoking the instability of water and the ocean.
    
Screen Capture from Day Off
photo by Karn Junkinsmith
 
Day Off, 2003, 14 min, Super 8
Produced & Directed by Karn Junkinsmith
Choreography by Karn Junkinsmith
Music by Polo Montanez, Lucinda Williams, Ali Farka Toure
Synopsis: Six novices leave their monastery for a day of dancing in the suburbs on their way to the beach.
    
Screen Capture from Your Lights Are Out Or Burning Badly  
Your Lights Are Out Or Burning Badly, 2006, 9 min, 35 mm
Directed by Gaelen Hanson
Produced by 33 Fainting Spells & The Film Company
Choreography by Gaelen Hanson
Music by Kinski
Synopsis: “Your Lights Are Out Or Burning Badly” features an emotionally charged solo dance performed by filmmaker Gaelen Hanson with powerful music by Seattle band KINSKI. The film was created with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
    
Screen Capture from Bone  
Bone, 2005, 48 min, mini-DV
Directed by Mila Aung-Thwin
Produced by Daniel Cross & Mila Aung-Thwin
Choreography by Nadine Thouin & Ma Po
Music composed by Jerry Snell
Synopsis: A verite documentary and performance film that follows the creation process in Bejing, and then an intense tour through China and Canada.
    
Showing Monday, June 5th, 2006, 7:30 pm, BMoCA
Screen Capture from  Moon in the Bucket  
Moon in the Bucket, 2005, 10 min, Super 16
Produced & Directed by Theo Lipfert
Choreography by AC Petersen
Music by Garrett Fisher & Fisher Ensemble
Synopsis: A prisoner's daily routine frees her from her past. But can it free her from the present?
    
Publicity photo for Humming Bird  
Humming Bird, 2006, 3 min, mini-DV
Directed by Scott Paul
Produced by Tim Cowart & Scott Paul
Choreography by Tim Cowart & Corrie Franz Cowart
Synopsis: This short film displays the conflicting dualities of memory and presence between a man and a woman in their home.
    
 
In There, 2005, 7 min, mini-DV
Directed by Michael Theodore / Michelle Ellsworth
Produced by Prarie Dog Mothers
Choreography by Michelle Ellsworth
Music by Michael Theodore
Synopsis: This film definitively answers the question, "What is he doing in there?"
    
Screen Capture from The Duel  
The Duel, 2004, 4 min, min-iDV
Produced & Directed by Amber McCall
Choreography by Casey Kimble & Erwin Tuazon
Music composed by Michael Rosen
Synopsis: "The Duel" expresses how, through conflict, two beings can find purpose in one another's existance. In the struggle to defeat his opponent, each recognizes his own strengths and weaknesses. Through the eye of the camera, "The Duel" demonstrates the exchange of energy through movement as each dancer seeks to gain power over the other.
    
Screen Capture from Another World of Dance  
Another World of Dance, 1994, 9 min, 3/4" video
Produced & Directed by Dan Boord / Laura Hill / Marilyn Marloff / Luis Valdovino
Music composed by Sergei Prokofiev, Anton Webern, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc
Synopsis: "Another World of Dance" continues a series of tapes made for the lovers of dance, the Jane Fonda work-out video, and the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan affair. This tape asks the question, "If it is big, if it is orange and if it is ugly--is it contemorary art?" Another World of Dance is not about dance but provides self-help for those who love dance and are without the means to produce a full-scale "Le Sacre du Printemps."
    
Showing Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 7:30 pm, BMoCA
Screen Capture from Story of Apples  
Story of Apples, 2006, 6 min, mini-DV
Produced by Hamel Bloom
Choreography by Gabriel Masson
Music by Giovanni Sollima
Synopsis: Dancers pale before an animated cyc.
    
Screen Capture from Broke and Spirit  
Broke and Spirit, 2005, 8 min, 16 mm
Produced & Directed by Adam de Monet
Choreography by Onyekwere Ozuzu
Music by Memphis Slim, Ruben Gonzalez, The Crusaders, Grant Green, and Babatunde Olatunji
Synopsis: After breaking her foot, Onye must reconcile the fact that she is a dancer with the reality of her recently aquired handicap. Being a dancer she must learn to express herself even without full use of her most powerful tool, the body.
    
Screen Capture from Wallflower  
Wallflower, 2005, 11 min, mini-DV
Directed by Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt & Maria Mebius Schroder
Produced by Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt
Choreography by Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt & Maria Mebius Schroder
Music by Palle Dahlstedt & Christian Jormin
Synopsis: "Wallflower" tells the well known story and drama of the place where it was performed. Two wallflowers, wishing to dance, hide behind their handbags at the edge of the dance floor. But, when the bags fall their fingers develop claws. And, when the dance floor is too narrow, cliffs are an alternative. The word wallflower in Swedish is "panelhona." It means "wall hen" - the hen at the wall.
    
Screen Capture from  Dance  
A Dance, 2006, 3 min, Super 8
Produced & Directed by Mark Crawford
Music by Stomp
Synopsis: "A Dance" is an experiment with light, color, texture, and the film medium itself to produce a "cinematic dance."
    
Screen Capture from ... like being dreamt  
...like being dreamt, 2005, 6 min, mini-DV
Produced & Directed by Leslie Merrill / Lindsay Pierce
Choreography by Leslie Merrill / Lindsay Pierce
Music by godspeed you! black emperor
Synopsis: Sleepwalkers move through a shifting landscape of intersecting dreams.
    

Tour Program, 2006
Silvestre Revueltas Theater
Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico
Wednesday & Thursday, October 25th & 26th, 2006
Selected pieces from the BMoCA Program above.
   
 
 
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