Dancing Queens Program| 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival at Brava
Schedule
Sat Oct 23 2021 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Brava Theater Center | San Francisco, CA
About this Event
Celebrate queerness in all of its forms through these six shorts. Moving from the intimacy of partners’ embraces to the emphatic maximalism of vogue performance, these films recognize the challenges of existing beyond the binary but ultimately embrace difference as a force for pride and positive change.
Dancing Queens
7:00p | House Opens
7:30p | Program Begins
Runtime: 48 minutes
Program includes an exclusive live performance by Ballet22’s Roberto Vega Ortiz and Evan Ambrose, and a post-screening reception.
Please note: Online Ticket sales will end at 12:00pm day of the event but will be available for purchase at the door. Tickets purchased at the door will cost $1 additional per ticket.
I Just Wanna Dance
I Just Wanna Dance showcases the vitality and innovation of dancers from both the New York City and Los Angeles hustle scene.
Director: Amanda Beane
Choreographer: Abdiel Jacobsen and Shay Dixon
(USA, 2021) 5:00 min
Hustle
To You My Love
To You My Love investigates the visual poetry of a love letter in movement.
Director: Olivia Gastaldo
Choreographer: Olivia Gastaldo
(USA, 2021) 4:55 min
Contemporary
Soar
Soar is a snapshot of the intersection between identity reclamation and expressive freedom that dance offers one young trans dancer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Director: Natalia Roberts
Choreographer: Sho Morikawa
(USA, 2021) 2:50 min
Contemporary
Without
A meditation on interiority and the passage of time, Without turns its gaze inward to examine both the individual and coupled experience of isolation.
Director: Christian Squires and Robert Dekkers
Choreographer: Christian Squires and Robert Dekkers
(USA, 2020) 5:59 min
Contemporary
Carmen
Oakland-based and gender-defying dance company Ballet 22 presents an excerpt from Carmen featuring Daniel R. Durrett.
Director: Roberto Vega Ortiz
Choreographer: Alberto Alonso
(United State, 2021) 3:53 min
Ballet
Black Magic
An uplifting celebration of resiliency and strength, Black Magic documents a 2019 live performance created by Rashaad Newsome that has been “expanded” and activated with the use of motion tracking software and dazzling visual effects
Organized into three acts, the film explores trans women and their contributions to the vogue fem lexicon. The five elements of vogue fem: hands, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duckwalking are explored along with how the marginalization of the Black queer community has led to systemic oppression, violence, and instability. Yet Black queer people resist, creating space for creativity, community, and joy. Newsome refers to this resistance as Black Magic.
The film’s choreography features performers vigorously flipping, swinging, twirling, and shaking their red, black, and green hair. As they “pass the beat,” Newsome visually depicts their energies and “souls” passing from one to another. Concurrently, Newsome maps the movement patterns of the dancers and transforms the collected data into drawings on a screen above the stage. Black Magic features an original score that is an amalgamation of several live performances, where the artist uses two Nintendo Wii’s to play and manipulate his score, while a gospel choir, Gregorian chants, live electronic music, live instrumentation, a vogue MC, and an opera singer collide, acting as an operating system to create a new visual and sonic reality.
Director: Rashaad Newsome
Choreographer: Rashaad Newsome, Omari Oricci Wiles
(USA, 2021) 25:00 min
Live Performance Capture
https://vimeo.com/537995487
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MASKS
All attendees regardless of age must wear masks at all times inside the theater when not eating or drinking.
COVID-19 VACCINATION
Attendees will be required to show COVID-19 vaccination records and a valid photo ID during check in. To be considered fully vaccinated, attendees must have received their second dose of the two-dose COVID-19 vaccines or the single dose vaccine at least 14 days before attending the screening event.
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– A vaccination card, showing fully vaccinated status
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Where is it happening?
Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, United StatesUSD 0.00 to USD 25.00