Motion Pictures

Now in its 9th 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 Camera exhibition, 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).

Calendar Archive

MOTION PICTURES Annual Shorts Program screening with Kate Watson-Wallace

March 4, 2010 - 7:30pm

The Annual Shorts Program will feature clever, poetic, and animated dance videos from around the world. The program will preview Everywhere, an online video project by Philadelphia-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace and award-winning shorts from the Dance On Camera Festival 2010 at Lincoln Center in New York.

Now in its 9^th year, Motion Pictures explores how film and video serve as a 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.

MOTION PICTURES Beyond the Mainstream screening

March 4, 2010 - 6:00pm

The dance film series 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. Motion Pictures will feature a special screening of Beyond the Mainstream, the rarely seen PBS Great Performances: Dance in America series featuring postmodern, avant-garde dancers from 1980.