PDP Presents 2010: Motion Pictures screening, Beyond the Mainstream March 4, 2010

Now in its 9th 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 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. The documentary includes Steve Paxton (founder/creator of Contact Improvisation) and Trisha Brown’s seminal company, which in 1980 featured PDP Presents choreographers Lisa Kraus and Eva Karczag, who will appear together in Red Thread.

Motion Pictures is presented in partnership with “Dance with Camera,” an exhibition now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Film @ International House, and the Dance Film Association’s Touring Partners Program.

Part of Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, February 26 – March 20
[re]generation | contemporary dance | past meets future
The Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010 series takes a look back and a look ahead, pairing the next wave of contemporary dance artists with influential choreographers from the 1970s and 80s Philadelphia dance scene.

Official Website: http://www.philadanceprojects.org