Emory Dance Screens Dances on Film

ATLANTA – The Emory Dance Program presents Dance for Reel: An evening of dance on camera, Tuesday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Oxford Road Presentation Room on Emory’s campus. This presentation is curated by Blake Beckham and Malina Rodriguez, co-directors of The Lucky Penny.

“Curating this program aligns with The Lucky Penny’s aim to build and diversify audiences through cross-disciplinary movement based arts, and there’s no place I’d rather do it than Emory,” says Beckham.

Films for the evening were selected, in part, based on connections to the ever-expanding Atlanta dance community. The line-up features contemporary work by national and international artists, many of whom have recently debuted work on Atlanta stages. 

Dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham, a recent Coca-Cola artist in residence at Emory, appears in “Quarantine,” a film by Gabri Christa. Abraham plays a young man exploring an abandoned quarantine building for African slaves under the watchful eye of an elder. 

Audiences may remember the work of Canadian choreographer Azure Barton, who made her Atlanta premiere at The Ferst Center this season.  Barton’s work is featured in “Afternoon of the Chimeras,” a piece by Daniel Conrad that merges humanity, movement, and the environment with striking simplicity. 

Also included in the program are “Pavillion Noir,” by French director Pierre Coilibeuf, and the 2010 short “There is a Place” by celebrated filmmakers Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, shot on location in the Scottish Highlands.

Finally, the evening will include a work by Emory alumna Natalie Metzger, a choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Metzger’s “For Water” is a collaboration between dancers from Indonesia and America, and is inspired by the importance of water to the islands of Indonesia and to water-starved California.  

This program is free and open to the public. For more details about this event, visit dance.emory.edu. For more information about The Lucky Penny, visit theluckypenny.org. 

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Emory Dance Program
The Emory Dance Program provides students with a curriculum that interweaves both the practical and theoretical to foster students' creative, intellectual, and communicative powers in the field of dance.