Can it be that a month has passed since the last Dance on Film? While we’ve been busily counting things, including z-z-z-s (the sheep were all counted in March!), the time has come round for another Sunday afternoon film screening, in partnership with Light House Cinema, Smithfield.

Sunday, June 21
Time: 4pm
Light House Cinema, Smithfield
Tickets: €7.50 / €6 (conc.)

Join us for a double bill, featuring dance films by Raimund Hoghe and Philippe Saire.

DDF will screen Hoghe’s Carte Postales (2005), a duet featuring Hoghe and untrained dancer Lorenzo de Brabandere, directed by Richard Copans.  Filmed in a grand chateau, it explores solitary states of the two performers and builds tension by contrasting their physicality.

Raimund Hoghe’s stage work, Swan Lake, was presented at Project Arts Centre during IDFI 2006.  Swan Lake was created in 2005 for Montpellier Dance Festival and presented a direct challenge to received notions of beauty and history in this stark and fragile reworking of the classic tale.

Hoghe is a German dancer and choreographer, respected for his journalism in Die Zeit and his dramaturgy for Pina Bausch.  He started creating his own work in 1994 and was awarded BalletTanz Magazine’s Dancer of the Year award in 2008. One of his primary concerns is to present bodies on stage that do not comply with the norm in order to make us look at how we view history and beauty afresh.

Philippe Saire’s Cartographies (2002, 2004 & 2007) will make up the other half of the double bill.  A series of site specific choreographic interventions in urban landscapes, they blend film, dance video and architecture in a way that interprets the spaces in a new way.  There are nine Cartographies in all; a selection will be shown here.

Philippe Saire presented Could I Just Draw Your Attention to the Brevity of Life? during DDF 08 at Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.  A master of the unexpected, this work provided a witty, playful and thoughtful observation on our need for entertainment and our capacity for constant distraction.  A renowned European choreographer, Philippe Saire founded his Lausanne-based company in 1986.  Saire’s award winning work is frequently multi-disciplinary in nature and has toured worldwide.

For further information and to book tickets, contact Light House Cinema on 01 879 7601 or visit www.lighthousecinema.ie.