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Update #12: THE DANCER FILMS Trailer: Sneak Peek
Our 6 films all day long at World Financial Center Winter Garden, Sat. July 9 - Sun July 17. (11a-7p.)
And Sunday July 10 at 2p, a DANCE-IN with our artists! Jules draws, the band swings, we all dance! Bare feet, leotards (?) .... All ages. See you at the Winter Garden!
Update #11: THE DANCER FILMS: Coming to NY!
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF FREE ART IN LOWER MANHATTAN
THE WINTER GARDEN WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER
Saturday July 9
Extraordinary Moves: The Dancer Films New York Premiere! Presented by Arts World Financial Center The Dancer Films is a collection of very short films based on Jules Feifferʼs beloved cartoon character, the modern Dancer. Director Judy Dennis brilliantly translates six of Feifferʼs memorable cartoons−A Dance to Spring, A Dance to Art, A Dance to Summer, A Dance to the Loss of Innocence, A Dance to the New Year, and A Dance to the End of Summer−from the page to the soundstage, alchemizing drawing into dance for film. Brought to life by Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancer Andrea Weber, the Dancer is an icon to optimism and earnestness as she dances to celebrate a cycle of seasonal, emotional and political milestones. Produced by Ellen and Judy Dennis. Choreography by Susan Marshall and by Larry Keigwin, and original music by Jane Ira Bloom. July 9-17.11am-7pm daily. World Financial Center Winter Garden.
Extraordinary Moves: A Dance to Spring: The Drawings of Jules Feiffer Presented by Arts World Financial Center An extraordinary exhibition of original cartoon strips, watercolors, and iris prints by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author, playwright, and iconic New Yorker Jules Feiffer. The centerpiece of the show is a selection of the Dancer cartoons, which ran for 40 years in The Village Voice and as a monthly feature in the New York Times. July 9 – August 14, 2011. (July 9-17, 11am – 7pm daily; July 19 – August 14, Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 4pm). World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street.
Sunday July 10
Extraordinary Moves: Express Your Inner Feiffer Dancer Presented by Arts World Financial Center In a live dance-in inspired by The Dancer Films, release your inner Dancer while Jules Feiffer creates new cartoons joined by dancer Andrea Weber and live music by Jane Ira Bloom. All ages welcome! 2pm. World Financial Center Winter Garden.
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Update #9: OUR DANCE TO THE NEW YEAR
THE DANCER FILMS are almost ready, and will screen for arts presenters (only for arts presenters, sorry) at Baryshnikov Arts Center this January - where it all began!
We want to let you know that because of the brevity of the films,
you may not find your name on screen... but we hope you will recognize your spirit in every beautiful frame! We couldn't be happier.
With thanks and love, and with a promise to see and celebrate the films together in the new year,
Judy and Ellen
Update #8: Weekend Headliners
OUR VERY OWN DANCER ANDREA WEBER:
★ Fall for Dance (Tuesday through Thursday) This marvelous annual festival is always the hottest dance ticket in town this time of year, with every seat in the capacious City Center theater going for $10. The first program on Tuesday and Wednesday nights is worth seeing just for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in “Xover,” shown for the first time in New York.
CHECK MERCE CUNNINGHAM WEBSITE FOR A CHANCE TO SEE ANDREA ON WORLD TOUR: http://www.merce.org/legacy-tour/schedule.php
OUR VERY OWN CHOREOGRAPHER LARRY KEIGWIN:
Choreographic Institute Alumni to Present Works
Larry Keigwin, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon are among the alumni of the New York Choreographic Institute who will create original works for the 10th-anniversary celebration of the organization.
NOTE: KEIGWIN + Company appear at Fall for Dance Oct. 7 and Oct. 8.
AND JULES FEIFFER PUBLISHES AGAIN!
AUTHOR EVENT: Jules Feiffer and Norton Juster
Join author Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer, the collaborators behind The Phantom Tollbooth, as they make several fall appearances in support of their latest project together, The Odious Ogre, the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless.
Praise for The Odious Ogre
"Kids [are] sure to enjoy Juster's rich wordplay and happily ridiculous story and Feiffer's wonderfully scratchy and energetic watercolors of the greedy ogre, the terrified townspeople and the utterly pleasant and otherwise unremarkable heroine. A delicious morsel with which to whet the palate for other works by these giants of children's literature." - Kirkus
September 25th
National Book Festival
Washington DC
and
October 24th @ 1:00 PM
BOOKS OF WONDER, NYC!
OUR NEWS
We're editing! The films look beautiful and Feifferesque. Jules is so delighted, he is creating original art for the films! We've been invited to record our music at world famous AVATAR STUDIOS with NY jazz greats. Excitement is percolating about exhibiting the films for the public in New York and "abroad" this summer.
None of this would be possible without your generosity.
We're asking again.
We hope you'll please consider one more contribution so that we may finish the films.
If you can, and will. please write your check to
PERFORMING ARTSERVICES (earmarked
Feiffer Dancer Films) and mail it to:
Judy Dennis
33 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
(We'd be happy to discuss our financial picture if you'd like - just drop me an "e"!)
With appreciation and love,
Judy and Ellen
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JUDY DENNIS (Director) PATRIOTIC, Judy’s first short film as a director and screenwriter, screened at film festivals worldwide - most prestigiously, as part of New Directors/ New Films at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “Luminous”, wrote Stephen Holden in The New York Times. For television, she directed “Sonata Da OZ,” an episode in the final season of HBO’s groundbreaking series OZ.
Judy enjoyed three decades as a casting director in the mainstream of American theater and film. Film directors with whom she worked ranged from Terrence Malick to Brian DePalma, Andrzej Wajda, Julie Taymor and Ang Lee. Casting locales ranged from Twyla Tharp’s New York City walk-up to mountain villages in Thailand. Judy was Alan J. Pakula’s assistant on SOPHIE’S CHOICE, and dialogue director on two films by Michael Cimino. She shared a special Emmy Award casting SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. Classical and contemporary theater repertories cast by Judy include hundreds of plays for theaters such as New York Shakespeare Festival, Classic Stage Company, Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theater Festival. In addition to a half dozen full-ensemble musicals, she assembled casts for the Bessie and Obie Award winning THE MYSTERIES AND WHAT’S SO FUNNY? and for PUNCH AND JUDY GET DIVORCED, a creation for Mikhail Baryshnikov expanded for the stage and broadcast on PBS Alive TV. She served as a consultant on MEMORY AND HOPE: a Permanent Installation at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Judy is a graduate of Bennington College, and teaches at NYU’s Undergraduate School of Film and Television . She recently returned from Uganda as a mentor with Maisha, a filmmakers’ laboratory created by Mira Nair to provide professional training to emerging filmmakers from East Africa and South Asia.
ELLEN DENNIS (Producer) recently completed six seasons as the Producer of New York City Center's Fall for Dance festival. She was Producer of Orange County Performing Arts Center's Fall for Dance in California. Ellen has produced and managed works internationally for artists including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Diamanda Galas, Philip Glass, Andre Gregory, Steve Reich, Wally Shawn, Twyla Tharp and Robert Wilson; and for American Ballet Theater, National Public Radio (Peabody Award winning HEAT) and the Wiener Festwochen (The Vienna Festival). She was Executive Producer of the New York production of Peter Brook’s TIERNO BOKAR. She has been a consultant to the Australia Arts Council, Columbia University and the Viennale (Vienna Film Festival).
Ellen was Assistant to the Executive Producer for dance-on-screen works including the WNET/BBC production of Twyla Tharp’s THE CATHERINE WHEEL and Emmy Award winning BARYSHNIKOV BY THARP. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music through the 80’s, she was Company Manager for productions including THE MAHABHARATA and EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH. Ellen co-produced PATRIOTIC, a film directed by Judy Dennis.
In Austria, Ellen created an arts program for unaccompanied minors at the Traiskirchen Refugee Camp, inspiring Vienna’s Impulstanz Festival and the Wiener Festwochen to inaugurate performing arts programs for asylum-seeking minors.
After many years of collaboration, Judy and Ellen formally join as Dennae Productions to produce performing arts projects worldwide.
MAZAL TOV!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool. Very, very cool.