Dance Films Kino

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See 22 films and experience 15 live performances and talks during Dance Films Kino, a three-week free admission festival of film and live performance at Hyde Park Art Center, March 4-25, 2012.

Chicago-based artist and film curator Sarah Best opens the studio doors as an artist in residence at the Art Center to create a salon-style environment evoking the kinos or private avant garde art clubs of the 1920s in Soviet Russia.  Films celebrating innovative collaborations between dance artists and filmmakers, are programmed around the themes Revolutions and Revelations, Women and Men, and Utopias and Dystopias. Through this festival, Best activates the studio space, cultivating an experience of movie-watching and art-viewing that emphasizes community and celebration.

The festival is co-presented by Links Hall and Hyde Park Art Center with all screenings, events, and performances happening at Hyde Park Art Center. Dance Films Kino is a Touring Partner of the Dance Films Association. Dance Films Association’s annual Dance On Camera Festival is co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Calendar of Events, March 4 – 25

• Revolutions and Revelations Film Screenings (March 4 – 10)
• Women and Men Film Screenings (March 11 – 17)
• Utopias and Dystopias Film Screenings (March 17 – 25)
• Live Performances and Talks (March 4 – 25)
• View a Complete Calendar of Dance Films Kino Events, listed by date.

Plan Your Visit

• Get Parking and Public Transit Directions to Hyde Park Art Center.
• Read the Manifesto of The Dance Films Kinoist.
• See the design of the Kino space as it shapes up on Pinterest.
• Get up-to-the-minute updates on Facebook.

Make a Donation Online

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Calls for Work

• Artists and Writers: view the call for work our Dance Films Kino Artifacts series here.
• Choreographers and Dance Artists: view the call for work for film excerpts and works in progress for a Dance Films Slam, hosted by Liana C. Percoco. Download the submission form here.

Press

• Artist Story: Sarah Best, Chicago Artists Resource, February 2011.
• Screen Dances Marries Film and Dance, Christy LeMaster, 848, WBEZ 91.5 FM (Audio)
• Last Minute Plans: Man With a Movie Camera, Chuck Sudo, Chicagoist, March 2011
• Composer Dan Schaaf’s silent cinema musical has landed at Links Hall, Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, March 2011
• Man With a Movie Camera: Best Bets for Thursday, Time Out Chicago Out & About Blog, March 2011
• Man With a Movie Camera: Critic’s Pick in Time Out Chicago Dance (March 2011)
• Man With a Movie Camera: Critic’s Pick in Time Out Chicago Film (March 2011)
• Man With a Movie Camera: Reader Recommended (March 2011)
• Lucy Cash screening, Five Things to Do on Tuesday, Time Out Chicago’s Out & About Blog (February 2011)
• Dance Film Screening and Talk: Lucy Cash: Critic’s Pick, Time Out Chicago Dance (February 2011)

Dance Films Kino Collaborators

I would like to thank my a few of my artistic collaborators for their contributions to the festival:

• Stephanie Acosta, Artistic Director of the Anatomy Collective, Dance Films Kino artistic collaborator
• Logo and Graphic Design by Jon Damaschke
• NoOneIsAnywhere, Sound installation design
• Liana C. Percoco, Dance Films Slam coordinator
• Andy Best, Dance Films Kino Artifacts Series coordinator
• The Open Space Project, contributors and kindred curatorial spirits

With Many Thanks To Our Donors and Supporters

Liz Liebman, Ginger Farley, Alison Peters Quinn, Kate Lorenz, Roell Schmidt, Megha Ralapati, Brook Rossini, Chris Hammes, Crystal Pernell, Heather Hartley & Phil Reynolds, Ruth Fuerst & James Block,  Bob Garrett & Nadine Lollino, Mark Jeffery & Judd Morrissey, Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique, Emissary Chicago, Sparrow, Intelligentsia, Metropolis Coffee Company, Lifeline Theatre, POETRY Magazine, Rachel Damon / Synapse Arts Collective, Raquel L. Monroe, Matt Vanderzalm, Kathleen Duffy, Lucy Cash, Irina Botea, Chris Hammes, CJ Mitchell, Mairead Case, Matti Allison, Mark Wilson, Andrew Best, Albra Wheeler, Hyde Park Art Center volunteers, David Emanuel, Irene Hodes, Dan Schaaf, Todd Lillethun, Tim Frick, Nate Brandt, Daniele Wilmouth, Andrew Roddewig, Maggy Fouche, Lane Alexander, and Jan Bartoszek.