Stop Calling Them Dangerous #5: Cinema Has Power
La MaMa Moves! in partnership with Movement Research and Pool Shine - "New York Traces", MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin
Featuring Yvonne Rainer
Organized by Yoshiko Chuma
Featuring Charles Atlas and other freedom makers
A panel featuring a conversation on cinemas power and a film screening including works by groundbreaking artist Yvonne Rainer. The panel is organized by choreographer and instigator Yoshiko Chuma and presents Charles Atlas, a pioneering figure in film and video for more than 40 years.
There will be surprise dance-filmmakers who will be attending. The screening is co-curated by POOL - Movement Art Film Festival Berlin.
Photo credit: Still of “Trio Film” by Yvonne Rainer, 1968, Camera: Phill Niblock. With the courtesy of Video Data Bank.
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival continues to support La MaMa’s commitment to presenting diverse performance styles that challenge audience’s perception of dance by featuring performance/installations, experimental film screenings & public symposiums which address dance artists’ engagement with the current political climate, as well as honoring diasporic histories and legacy, ancestral inspirations and inter-generational dialogue.