“Movement
(R)evolution Africa” is
supported by National Endowment for the Arts.
Joan
Frosch (Producer/Director)
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Joan Frosch
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 and producing as a dance
ethnographer/activist, and, now, directing her first documentary
feature.
Joan
is the inaugural Gwendolen M. Carter Fellow in African
Studies, Professor of Dance and Assistant Director of
the School of Theatre and Dance (http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance/),
affiliate faculty of the Centers for African Studies and
Latin American Studies, and co-founder and co-director
of the Center for World Arts (http://www.arts.ufl.edu/cwa/),
University of Florida which is a living laboratory exploring
the interface of arts and culture. Her research has attracted
national and international funding, and numerous honors
and awards, such as the national Lilly Fellowship for
innovative curriculum in Dance in World Cultures, the
National Endowment for the Arts (Dance-Creativity), and
the Cologne Choreographers' Forum for her choreography,
China.
In collaboration with the Centers for African Studies
and Latin American Studies, she has developed numerous
collaborations with international artists moving from
"cultural traditions" to contemporary expression,
including conferences on the subject, such as the recent
Movement (R)evolution Dialogues: Contemporary Performance
In and Of Africa, and programming including such artists
as: Los Pregones, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor, African-American
Dance Ensemble, DanceBrazil, Menaka Thakkar Dance Company,
Pepatian, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, ODC San Francisco,
Urban Bush Women, and, most recently TchéTché,
of Cote d’Ivoire.
Joan
trained at the School of Performing Arts, The Juilliard
School, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia University
and the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. She has also
taught on the faculties of the University of Maryland,
the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Wesleyan
University, Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands,
the International School of Beijing, and founded and directed
a summer performing arts program based at the Institute
of African Studies, University of Ghana. She has also
served as Advisor to the Smithsonian's Festival of American
Folklife African Immigrant Project, President of the Florida
Dance Association, and on the board of directors of the
Congress on Research in Dance. 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 Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium, a national
organization of curators, presenters, and scholars dedicated
to the vigorous artistic exchange of contemporary African
performance. (http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance/pages/whoweare/bio.asp?PID=170)
Alla
Kovgan (Co-director/Editor/Camera)
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker,
born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she
co-directed have been presented worldwide including at
the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Melbourne, Durban, Oberhausen,
Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, PBS (US),
ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. Alla's most recent
film NORA (2008), her collaboration with the British filmmaker
David Hinton, is an art film – a poetic biography
of the Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire. NORA,
produced by Joan Forsch, has been an official selection
of over 80 festivals, received 30 awards and was broadcast
on PBS, ARTE, NRK, SVT and Catalanuya TV. The two latest
documentaries, which Alla co-directed and edited, an Emmy-nominated
"Traces of the Trade" (2007) and “My perestroika”
(2009) premiered at Sundance and on P.O.V. (PBS). Since
1999, Alla has been involved into interdisciplinary collaborations
– creating intermedia performances (with KINODANCE
Company), dance films and documentaries about dance. Alla's
projects have been supported by Open Society Institute,
LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of
America Celebrity Series, among others. Since 2000, she
has taught and curated dance film and avant-garde cinema
worldwide as the Programmer of St. Petersburg Dance Film
Festival KINODANCE (Russia) and as a co-Curator of Balagan
Film Series (Boston). In 2009, Alla was awarded a Massachusetts
Cultural Council Fellowship (2009), a Brother Thomas Fellowship
(2009) for artists working at a high level of excellence
and creativity and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2012).
(http://www.movementrevolutionafrica.com/nora/,
http://www.tracesofthetrade.org,
http://www.kinodance.org/,
http://www.kinodance.com/russia/)
Jeff
Silva (Director of Photography)
Jeff Silva is an artist and curator based
in Boston. Jeff studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca
College in NY and has since gone on to produce several
award winning films & videos that have screened around
the world. His most recent video was in the BAC!05 contemporary
art festival in Barcelona, Spain. Jeff works professionally
as a Multi-Media producer at MIT and has most notably
produced over 100 of the Walter Lewin Physics series on
MIT's OpenCourseWare and MIT World.
Jeff
also works independently as a freelance editor and cinematographer
while continuing to make his own short films, documentaries,
and multi-channel video installations. He is currently
working on several personal projects, including “Hard
Reigns: Fighting Wars, Fighting Time”, which is
an experimental documentary about his travels to Serbia
and Kosovo in 2000. Jeff is also working on a short 16mm
film diary about Mexico City entitled “Lucha Libre”.
Complete
Credit List:
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Company
Jant-Bi (Senegal)
Fagaala (Genocide)
artistic
director / choreographer
Germaine Acogny |
assistant
to
Germaine Acogny
Longa Fo Eyeoto |
co-choreographer
Kota Yamazaki |
assistant to Kota Yamazaki
Mina Nishimura |
dancers
Babacar Ba
Ciré Beye
Abdoulaye Kane
Pape Ibrahima N'Diaye (aka Kaolack)
Ousmane Bane N'Diaye
Tchebe Saky
Abib Sow |
costume
design
Oumou SY
composer
Fabrice Bouillon Laforest
musician/co-composer
Jean-Yves Gratius |
set
design
Maciej Fiszer |
sound
engineer
Michael Widhoff
|
musicians
from École des Sables
Oumar Fandy Diop
N'deye Seck
Mamadou Traoré
Djibril Ba
Abdourahman Diop |
|
lighting
design
Horst Mühlberger |
|
lighting technician
Marco Wehrspann |
company manager
Helmut Vogt |
African Ball was
composed by the musicians
of the École des Sables |
|
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Company
Kongo Ba Téria (Burkina Faso)
Vin Nem (The Light)
| choreographers
Lacina Coulibaly
Souleymane Badolo
musicians
Winsei Timbiri
Oumaru Kienou
sound
director
Harouna Abdoul Aziz Djinko
company
manager
Roch Wendploumdé Ouédraogo |
dancers
Lacina Coulibaly
Souleymane Badolo
Bienvenue Fernand Bazie
set
design
Margherita Del Balzo
light design
Sayouba Jacob Bamogo
|
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Company Rary (Madagascar)
Mpirahalahy Mianla (Several Make One)
| choreographer
Ariry Andriamoratsiresy
dancers
Ariry Andriamoratsiresy
Harimalala Angela Rakotoarisoa
Lovatiana Erica Rakotobe
Rijamalala Harivony Rakotoarimanana
Zoë J. Randrianjanaka Dinampitia
Alain Michel Randriamiasa |
company
manager
Zoë J. Randrianjanaka Dinampitia
musicians
Linda Angelica Volahasiniaina |
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Company Sello Pesa (South Africa)
Same But Different
| choreographer
Sello Pesa
dancers
Sello Pesa
Mandla Bebeza
Jean Renat Anamah |
rehearsal
director
Valerie Berger
technical
director
Guy Camphort
production
manager
Nathalie Soler |
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Company TchéTché
(Côte d’Ivoire)
Geeme (Union)
| choreographer
Béatrice Kombé
dancers
Nadia Beugre
Béatrice Kombé
lighting
design
Abdel Marc Salifou Camara |
music
Atsé Outou
Kiti de Bomou Mamadou Galizar
costume
design
Béatrice Kombé
Hervé Gnazou |
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Les Studios Kabako (Congo-Kinshasa)
Triptyque Sans Titre (Triptych Untitled)
| choreographer
/ lighting / set design
Faustin Linyekula
dancers
Papy Ebotani
Daddy Kamono
Djodjo Kazadi
Faustin Linyekula |
musicians
Joachim Montessuis
Les Studios Kabako
assistant
light design / set design
Daddy Kamono |
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Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe/USA)
Pungwe
| choreography
/ performance
Nora Chipaumire
original
music
Alex Potts
costume
/ lighting design
Nora Chipaumire |
|
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Company Raiz Di Polon
Duas Sem Três (Two without Three)
| choreography
/ performance
Elisabete Fernandes, Rosy Timas
original
music
Mário Lúcio Sousa
tex
Mário Lúcio Sousa
co-production:
Danças na Cidade, Raiz di Polon
|
voice
coach
Margarida Mestre
lighting
design
Carlos Ramos
sound
design
Raúl Ribeiro
special
thanks to DJ Burkam and Sr. Kula Pinto |
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also appearing in the film:
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (USA)
artistic director, Urban Bush Women (USA)
Urban
Bush Women dancers:
Maria
Bauman
Christal Brown
Nia Eubanks
Chanon Judson
Rhea Patterson
Amara Tabor-Smith
Zab
Maboungou (Congo-Brazzaville/Canada)
choreographer/philosopher
‘Funmi
Adewole (Nigeria/UK)
dance historian
Robert
Farris Thompson (USA)
art historian, Yale University
Gacirah
Diagne (Senegal)
co-director, Kaay Fecc Festival
Ayoko
Mensah (Togo/France)
journalist, Africultures
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with support from:
The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium (TACAC)
University of Florida
Center
for World Arts
School of Theatre and Dance
Center for African Studies
College of Fine Arts
Digital Worlds Institute
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
France-Florida Research Institute
University of Florida Performing Arts
Southern
Arts Federation
Lisa Booth Management
UA presents at University of Arizona
Association Française d’Action Artistique
Arts International
Africa Exchange
Ford Foundation
National Dance Project of
New England Foundation for the Arts
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Altria Group, Inc.
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special thanks to:
Ayoko Mensah
Congress on Research in Dance
Phil Reynolds, The Dance Center of Columbia College
Chicago
Larry N. Crook
Leonardo Villalon
Ken Foster
Georges Collinet
Gacirah Diagne
Maurine Knighton
Antoine Tempé
Mohamed DaCosta
Ntozake Shange
Laura Faure
Ric Rose
Kelly Drummond Cawthon
Ken Glazebrook
Seydou Boro
Issa Traoré Senior
Sunni Witmer
Robin Poynor
Isa Garcia-Rose
Cathy Pruzan
Amy Costello
Jordana Phokompe
Salia Sanou
Fatoumata Kande
Michael Blachly
Elizabeth Auer
Rebecca Nagy
Mikell Pinkney
Hely Perez
Fiona McGlaughlin
Patrick Acogny
Alioune Sou
Renata Serra
Christine King
Bill Anderson
Alissa Cardone
Katrina Browne
Talamas Company
Ted Driscoll
Deidre Valenti
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producer/director
Joan Frosch
co-director/editor
Alla
Kovgan
director
of photography
Jeff
Silva
principal
cinematography
Jeff
Silva
Alla Kovgan
additional
camera
Sarah Prior, Craig Roberts
Daniéle Wilmouth
Matt Beiler, Karin Gunn
Chris Caraballo
sound
mix
Richard Boch
graphics
and titles
Steven Hathaway
on-line
Michael H. Amundson
production assistants
Ade Funniyin, Erin Persley
Jill Sonke, Kiran Jayaram
Gabriel Kasozi, Shirley Ephraim
Lancelot Malcolm
transcription
/ translation
Zadi Zoukou, Mary Grabenstatter,
Meghan Holtzman, Juliana Azoubel,
Sawako Nakayasu, Rahmane Idrissa,
Welson Tremura
research
Joan Frosch
research
assistants
Jamie Baird, Jody Berman, Julie Dosso
Nicholas French, Marty Austin Lamar
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filmed at
Columbia College, Bates College, Tufts University,
University of Florida, University of Portland
funding
provided by
The National Endowment of the Arts
Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs
US Department of Education
University of Florida Fine Arts Scholarship Enhancement
Fund
in
memory of
Godwin Kwesi Agbeli
Grace Frosch
Albert Mawere Opoku
