Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video

Gladstone Hotel 2nd Fl Public Spaces + Ballroom
Exhibition Dates: Nov. 2-4, 2006 12-5PM
Opening Reception:

Moving Pictures presents its 15th and final Festival Edition over 3 nights at the Gladstone.  

Moving Pictures curators are pleased to announce the line-up for The Anatomic Cabaret , a multidisciplinary event that tramples all over the intersections of movement and the media arts. On Thursday, November 2 at 10 pm in the historic Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, the Cabaret will be hosted by Keith Cole with musical interventions by Hank (formerly know as the Hank Collective - Cab Williamson, Tara Azzopardi, Magali Meagher and Paige Gratland). Featured are video and live performance collusions by a motley crew of performance, music and dance artists including Cathy Gordon , Christopher House, Viv Moore , RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane , Pepper Highway , Learie McNicolls, Paul Hutcheson , KIDS ON TV , Justin Lovell and Troy Feldman , ina unt ina , Laura Cowell , and more. There will be audience participation. There will be live music. There will be rude words spoken. Obscene gestures will be more plentiful than pirouettes.

The 15 th and final Moving Pictures Festival opens on Thursday, November 2 at 8 pm in The Ballroom with the premiere of Roxana, directed by Moze Mossanen and choreographed by Roberto Campanella and featuring Greta Hodgkinson, Sheila McCarthy , Christopher Body and Rex Harrington. The Festival continues on Friday, November 3 at 7 pm on the Second Floor with the brilliant documentary Perreault Dancer, directed by Tim Southam . At 9 pm on the Second Floor, catch the international showcase Global Moves . New work including the Canadian premiere of Thierry De Mey's One Flat Thing Reproduced by William Forsythe . Also new work from 33 Fainting Spells, Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie (UK) and Antonin De Bemels (Belgium) as well as the Canadian premiere of Karina Epperlein's Oscar-nominated short documentary Phoenix Dance about dancer Homer Avila, who continued performing after losing a leg to cancer. On the final night of the Festival, Saturday, November 4 at 7 pm on the Second Floor, don't miss Fifteen Candles: The Best of Moving Pictures. This is a retrospective look at fifteen years of the best Canadian and international dance on film and video. Lastly, at 9 pm on the Second Floor, the Festival celebrates local heroes with Dancing Shadows : New Canadian Dance on Film and Video.

Thursday, November 2

World premiere screening of Roxana, directed by Moze Mossanen and choreographed by Roberto Campanella and featuring Greta Hodkinson, Sheila McCarthy, Christopher Body and Rex Harrington. Also on the program, Tell Me Everything by Brian D. Johnson and Revolver Tango by Pascale Marcotte. $10 at the door. 8PM | Ballroom

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The Anatomic Cabaret hosted by Keith Cole with musical interventions by Hank. Video and live performance collusions by Cathy Gordon, RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane, Pepper Highway, Learie McNicolls, Paul Hutcheson, ina unt ina, Kids on TV, Laura Cowell, and more. $10 at the door. 10PM | Ballroom

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Friday, November 3

Perreault Dancer directed by Tim Southam
A documentary celebrating the late great Montreal choreographic visionary, Jean-Pierre Perreault, told through the words of his performers. The screening will be introduced by Michael Trent, Artistic Director of Dancemakers and a former Perreault dancer. $10 at the door (Special ticket price for this event only: $5 for full-time students and CADA members.) 7PM | 2nd FL Salon

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Global Moves

International work including the Canadian premiere of Thierry De Mey's One Flat Thing Reproduced by William Forsythe. Also new work from 33 Fainting Spells, Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie (UK) and Antonin De Bemels (Belgium). $10 at the door. 9PM | 2nd FL

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Saturday, November 4

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. $10 at the door. 7PM | 2nd FL

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Dancing Shadows : New Canadian Dance on Film and Video
A handful of world premieres from across the country. Collaborators and co-conspirators include John Lauener and Barbara Pallomina, Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar, Jessica Joy Wise and Stephanie Thompson, Michael Caines and Janette Platana, Jenn Goodwin and Sarah Doucet, Kokoro Dance from Vancouver and many more. $10 door. 9PM | 2nd FL

Further programming details available at www.movingpicturesfestival.com.