Now in its 8th year, Motion Pictures has become a unique mini-festival that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for dance, highlighting the power of image and motion in both. The festival features experimental and innovative shorts, documentaries, “moc”umentaries and animations. There have been documentaries about Pina Bausch, Maya Deren, Carmen Amaya, Geoffrey Holder and Carmen DeLavallade Mark Morris and the Paris Opera Ballet along with imaginative ground breaking work by Pooh Kaye, Hilary Harris and Lloyd Newson among many others. PDP partners with the Dance Film Association.
This season, Motion Pictures, which in previous years has been presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects as a stand-alone series, will now be offered in conjunction with PDP Presents 2010. The 2010 Motion Pictures series will preview Everywhere, an online video project by Philadelphia-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace, and a special showing of Beyond the Mainstream, the rarely seen PBS Dance in America series featuring postmodern, avant-garde dancers from 1980. The series will be presented in partnership with the Dance With Cameraexhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. The Motion Pictures series will be held at the International House (3901 Chestnut Street).
A detailed schedule of events and full ticketing information will be announced soon.