Evening with Dance Film Festival Prague - Summer Rooftop Movies

321 East 73rd Street,New York NY 10021

26 August, 2021

Description

Dance for camera films are a new dimension of dance, a cinematic poetry. Join us for an evening with Czech dance film! Rooftop will open at 7 pm Cash bar offered by Bohemian Spirit Restaurant. Film starts at 8 pm. Dance Film Festival Prague is devoted to the support, production and presentation of this experimental genre of cinema in the Czech Republic. The line-up curated for presentation during Czech Center NY’s Summer Rooftop Movies includes the winner of the Main prize of the Festival, the award-winning film by Tereza Vejvodová and Markéta Jandová Delimitation, an environmental essay by Tomáš Hubáček and Marie Gourdain Fibonacci, a film adaptation of Cécile da Costa's solo Roselyne directed by Tereza Vejvodová, and Ephemera by Viliam Dočolomanský and Jiří Matoušek. Delimitation (2020) directed by: Tereza Vejvodová
 choreography by: Markéta Jandová Our personality responds to external circumstances with delineation. Physical dialogue with emptiness opens up the subject of the personal identity of a space of anonymous urban landscape. Fingertips are a tool of touch, but also of identification. Physical dialogue with the void, exploration leading to the discovery of space and self 
projecting life into the seemingly lifeless and meaningless. The film looks at the possibilities of finding a personal identity in an anonymous urban landscape. Watch the trailer. Fibonacci
 (2021) directed by: Tomáš Hubáček
 choreography by: Marie Gourdain 

Environmental dance film, or audiovisual meditation on Fibonacci patterns seen in the landscape, but also in the behavior of the herd, steeped in the structure of film and layers of music. Watch the trailer. Roselyne (2021) directed by: Tereza Vejvodová
 choreography by: Cécile Da Costa
 Audiovisual poem based on a true story of Roselyne, the woman who forgot to live her life. She could be a reflection of our doubts, the decisions and possibilities we didn’t make use of. How do we become our true selves? Original concept and choreography by French performer Cécile Da Costa. Ephemera (2021) directed by: Viliam Dočolomanský, Jiří Matoušek
 choreography by: Viliam Dočolomanský
 

The project Ephemera was originally created as a live performance that would fulfil the imposed anti-epidemic measures. From the circulating cabins of the paternoster lift, spectators were to watch parallel events happening across six floors of the Lucerna Palace. Since the team was not allowed to realize the project live, they decided to make the 45-minute performance as a film. Please note: In case of rain, the screening will take place in the Cinema at the Bohemian National Hall with an 8 pm start. In partnership with Dance Film Festival Prague. In collaboration with Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association. AN ANNUAL PROGRAM WITH OVER 150 EVENTS ENCOMPASSING THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS, FILM, LECTURES, CONCERTS AND FORUMS. IN 111 PLACES IN NEW YORK THAT YOU MUST NOT MISS, THE BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL WAS LISTED AS "A LITTLE-KNOWN TREASURE, A POST-MODERN SURPRISE, ENCOURAGING DYNAMIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND CZECH COMMUNITIES...A VIBRANT CULTURAL VENUE FOR NEW GENERATIONS OF NEW YORKERS."