Kinetic Cinema is back starting April 15th!

We're very excited to announce our Spring 2011 programming at Brooklyn LaunchPad and Green Space. Featuring guest artists, Jillian Peña, Zach Morris, and Pascal Rekoert.

Reflection
Screening and discussion with Jillian Peña

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 Peña. Following in the steps of the Greek chorus, the corps de ballet and the Rockettes, Peña 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, Reflection 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.

Jillian Peña'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

Moving with Objects and Architecture
Workshop and Screening with Zach Morris
Zach Morris/Third Rail Projects

Green Space

37-24 24th St. Suite 301

Long Island City, NY 11101

718-956-3037

Info@GreenSpaceStudio.org

Workshop: Choreography for the Camera

Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm

$35 if registered by April 26th / $40 at door

In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artist Zach Morris will lead participants through a process of creating site-specific movement works for the camera. A grab-bag of choreographic tactics focus on working with the architecture of a site to pull images and meaning from its components. Techniques for researching a site and exploring its possibilities in movement; finding hidden meaning in a space and developing methods to amplify it; and issues of staging, storyboarding, and choreographing for the camera will be introduced through a series of focused exercises.

Screening and discussion with Zach Morris

Tuesday May 17th 8-10pm

$7 online / $10 at door

Reservations

Join us for an evening of Dance for Camera curated by Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects and The Dance Film Lab. 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.

Screening and discussion with Pascal Rekoert

Thursday June 9th, 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 choreographer Pascal Rekoert, artistic director of Flexicurve. A native of Gouda, Netherlands, Pascal Rekoert has presented his own work in theaters in Great Britain, Germany, Croatia, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, United States, Canada and Mexico. He created the dance film "Erasmusspitzen, Crossing a Bridge on Points," which premiered at the International Rotterdam Film Festival, and is currently part of various art video collections and museums in northern Europe.

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.

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

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.