entrance: donation, No reservation required
more information under: pool-festival.de
films by Yoshiko Chuma, Elaine Summers, Pooh Kaye, Joan Jonas und Meredith Monk
In addition to contemporary dance films, on September the 10th, as part of the special format POOL Shine – New York Traces, the festival will present films that rose from collaborations between New York’s artists of postmodern dance, visual arts and the experimental film scene between 1960-80, including films by Yoshiko Chuma, Elaine Summers, Pooh Kaye, Joan Jonas and Meredith Monk. Furthermore the festival will showcase Elaine Summers’ film Two Girls Downtown Iowa (1973) as an installation at Zionskirche. The program will be accompanied by workshops with choreographer and filmmaker Yoshiko Chuma and dancer and choreographer Thomas Körtvélyessy, who is also in charge of Elaine Summers’ artistic estate.
A Production by DOCK ART
funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, FB Kunst und Kultur.
photo: Elaine Summers, (c) Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers. Courtesy of Thomas Körtvélyessy/Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers, made possible by the Kinetic Awareneness® Center and with special thanks to the New York Public Library.
