[Wadabo_updates] Boston Film Premiere: MOVEMENT (R)EVOLUTION AFRICA

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*Boston Premiere!!!*
MOVEMENT (R)EVOLUTION AFRICA (65min, 2007)  - movementrevolutionafrica.com
producer/director: Joan Frosch
co-director/editor: Alla Kovgan
director of photography: Jeff Silva

artists: Company Kongo Ba Téria (Burkina Faso), Faustin Linyekula and
Studios Kabako (Democratic Republic of Congo), Company Rary
(Madagascar), Sello Pesa (South Africa), Company TchéTché (Côte d'Ivoire),
Company Raiz di Polon (Cape Verde), Company Jant Bi (Senegal) and Kota
Yamazaki (Japan), Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and
members of Urban Bush Women (USA).

Stunning choreography and riveting stories of nine African
choreographers unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy
of 21st century Africa.


*WHEN:*
Friday, April 27, 2007 8:00pm.

*WHERE: *
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 640 Huntington Ave., 617-369-3306

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COST: *
$9 general,  $8 for members
Call 617-369-3306 or 617-369-3393 to buy tickets on the phone
Click the link below to buy tickets on-line
https://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=07%3AMFA%3AFL603%3AFL603%2C14362&linkID=mfab&url=https%3A//ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList%3FlinkID%3Dmfab

*MORE INFO:*
contact Alla Kovgan at akovgan at kinodance.com
or visit the website: www.movementrevolutionafrica.com

*ABOUT THE FILM: *

    Dominant media images of Africa commonly project a vast,
    undifferentiated land steeped in tradition and ensnared in a web of
    poverty, HIV/AIDS, and political turmoil. Personal and humanizing
    attention to Africa often hinges to the ironic beneficence of
    international rock stars. Where are the stories of fiercely creative
    African individuals and what do they have to tell us about their
    lives? Meet Movement (R)evolution Africa’s choreographic
    trendsetters. Hailing from Senegal to South Africa, the perspectives
    and creative processes of these dancers and choreographers present
    fresh images of Africa, and bring to life the continent’s
    contemporary identity. As they juxtapose reflection, rehearsal and
    performance, the artists open a window onto the emergent
    choreographic landscape of Africa in the 21st century, and ignite a
    new understanding of today’s Africa and the global society of which
    we are all a part.

    Combining innovative narrative techniques and striking footage of
    dancers at work in the studio and on stage, Movement (R)evolution
    Africa explores an astonishing exposition of choreographic
    fomentation. The choreographers reveal emotionally complex and
    deeply contemporary expressions of self. Faustin Linyekula, exiled
    survivor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eight-year war, muses
    whether his body his only “true country.” Germaine Acogny, mother of
    Senegalese contemporary dance, exorcises the assassin in herself as
    she creates a work on the Rwandan genocide. Through her
    choreography, Ivorian Béatrice Kombé explores love and union in the
    context of life in a country that has abused the trust of so many of
    it citizens. Nora Chipaumire excavates her painful Zimbabwean past
    in the context of a jarring American present. Sello Pesa explores
    traditions as abstractions, while Madagascar’s Ariry
    Andriamoratsiresy offers new ways to think about the meaning of
    “African” in “African dance.” The Burkinabe choreographers and
    directors of Kongo Ba Téria, Lacina Coulibaly and Souleyman Badolo,
    crystallize a riveting response to desertification. Choreographers
    Rosy Timas and Elisabete Fernandes render comic slices of urban and
    rural life in Cape Verde while questioning the staging of female
    sensuality. Renowned African-American choreographer Jawole Willa Jo
    Zollar engages the viewer in empathy-filled first-hand interactions
    with the featured African choreographers.

    The sum of these artists’ stories is a deeply human encounter with
    creativity that positions African choreographic innovation as a
    veritable aesthetic revolution. Their stunning choreography and
    riveting stories challenge stale stereotypes of “traditional Africa”
    to unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy of 21st
    century Africa.

*ABOUT FILMMAKERS:*

    Born and raised in Brooklyn, Joan Frosch (producer/director)
    explores 21st century artmaking through the voices of often
    previously marginalized artists and
    thinkers, including the emergent voices of contemporary dancers and
    choreographers in Africa, and the African Diasporas of France and
    the USA. Joan's 30 year creative path encompasses making and
    directing dance theatre, writing as a dance ethnographer/activist,
    and, now, directing her first documentary feature. She graduated
    from California Institute of the Arts, Laban Institute of Movement
    Studies, and Columbia University. At present, Joan is Professor of
    Dance and co-Director of the award-winning Center for World Arts at
    the University of Florida, and a founding member of the The Africa
    Contemporary Arts Consortium (USA).

    Alla Kovgan (co-director/editor) is a Boston-based
    filmmaker/intermedia artist/curator, born in Moscow, Russia. Her
    films have been screened at numerous venues around the world
    including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New York Dance on Camera
    Festival at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and others.
    Among Alla's most recent endeavors is co-directing and editing
    “Traces of the Trade: a Story from the Deep North” by Katrina Browne
    about the role of the North in the US slave trade; co-producing with
    Russian filmmaker Efim Reznikov “Terpsychore's Captives II”, a
    feature documentary about Bill T. Jones and a Russian prima
    ballerina Natalia Balakhnicheva; and working with Kinodance Company,
    on a new intermedia performance "Denizen" that will premiere in May
    2007 as a part of Bank of America Celebrity Series. Alla has been
    teaching and curating dance film and avant-garde cinema worldwide
    and acts as an International Director of St. Petersburg Dance Film
    Festival KINODANCE.