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Jillian Peņa kicks off Kinetic Cinema
Don't miss this chance to see and hear the enigmatic Jillian Peņa who will multiply before your very eyes...
Plus it's FREE!
Virtual Double
Friday, April 15th, 7:00pm. Free ($10 suggested donation)
LaunchPad
721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
718-928-7112
info@BrooklynLaunchPad.org
Join us for an informal screening and discussion with dance and video artist Jillian Peņa. Following in the steps of the Greek chorus, the corps de ballet and the Rockettes, Peņa sought to create a homogenous group of dancers to work with. Finding it impossible, Jillian turned to video and found perfect unison of bodies using self-multiplication. In her program, Virtual Double Jillian will show the earliest and the most recent of her works employing this aesthetic ideal. She will also screen works which have inspired her in this process, including videos by Josh Mannis and robbinschild.
Jillian Peņa's art is primarily concerned with confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media, and spirituality. She has been presented internationally, including at Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York, Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia, and Mix Brazil Sao Paulo. jillianpena.com
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About Kinetic Cinema
Kinetic Cinema, is a regular screening series curated by invited guest artists who create evenings of films and videos that have been influential to their own work as artists. When artists are asked to reflect upon how the use of movement in film and media arts has influenced their own art, a plethora of new ideas, material, and avenues of exploration emerge. From cutting edge motion capture animation to Michael Jackson music videos, from Gene Kelly musicals to Kenneth Anger films, movement in media has made a great impact on the culture at large. Kinetic Cinema is dedicated to the recognition and appreciation for "moving" pictures. We have presented these evenings at Collective: Unconscious, Chez Bushwick, Interborough Repertory Theater, University Settlement, Launchpad, Green Space and The Tank in New York City, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
For more info please visit our website.
Coming up next: Moving with Objects and Architecture
Workshop and Screening with Zach Morris
Green Space 37-24 24th St. Suite 301 Long Island City, NY 11101 718-956-3037 Info@GreenSpaceStudio.org
Workshop
Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm $35 if registered by April 26th / $40 at door Register online Screening
Tuesday May 17th 8-10pm $5 online / $10 at door Reservations Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects and The Dance Film Lab is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer whose work includes site-specific performances, installation art, video and multi-media projects, and immersive performance environments, Zach is particularly interested in creating projects that place contemporary art and performance in non-traditional contexts.  Pentacle is a non-profit service organization for the performing arts. For more than 35 years, Pentacle has functioned as a resource and voice for emerging, minority, experimental, non-mainstream dance artists and companies. Pentacle's underlying mission: to support and empower artists' organizationally so that they can do what they do best . . . create works of art. Mara Greenberg & Ivan Sygoda
Directors
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FUNDING
Pentacle's Movement Media Project programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and are made possible with with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional funding is provided by the generous contributions of individuals to Pentacle's Movement Media Project.
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