Name: Dance Film Shorts: Ali Kenner Brodsky
Start: 2024-03-07T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-03-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: MIT Welcome Center

Dance Film Shorts: Ali Kenner Brodsky

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A free hour-long event featuring two award-winning dance films by choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky and a Q&A about the making of the films.

MIT Welcome Center

About this event:Dance Film Shorts is a series of two film showings by The Dance Complex in association with MIT Open Space Programming. On March 7, join us for a screening of two short films followed by a Q&amp;A with artist Ali Kenner Brodsky. Learn more about the short films....between silences (2018, trailer featured in the event banner) is a dance film based on Ali’s live work, the most depressing piece… and made in collaboration with filmmaker Rich Ferri and composer MorganEve Swain. There is a richness in isolation as trauma is relayed through the body and in conversation with her surroundings. between silences portrays her journey through grief as she investigates how to love, to lose, to grieve, and to pick up the pieces. The creation of the film was made possible with support from the New England Dance Fund Grant also through NEFA. to be near you. (2021) is a dance film that pushes at the boundaries of time to create a feeling of reconnecting with something, or someone, who is gone. Based on a live duet between Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jenna Pollack, to be near you. honors the memory of those we have lost, collapses distance by energizing the spaces between, and demonstrates how people can find connection through physical separation. Ali, Choreographer &amp; Director, worked with Rich Ferri, Director of Photography; Jarret Blinkhorn, Co-Director; and Composer MorganEve Swain to bring this film to life. The creation of the film was made possible with support from the Jamestown Arts Center in Jamestown, Rhode Island; and from the SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine through a New England States Touring Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and a New England Dance Fund Grant also through NEFA. About the artists:Ali Kenner Brodsky makes gesturally rich and emotionally driven dance-theater works and dance films. Her work makes space for you to become absorbed in a world of reflection, remembering, and connection. AKB received a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Choreography Fellowship and was honored to be a part of NEFA'S NE Regional Dance Development Initiative 2021/22. With David Henry, Lila Hurwitz and Andy Russ, Ali co-founded<a href="http://www.motionstatearts.org/" title="http://www.motionstatearts.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Motion State Arts</a>, which presents innovative dance-films and live performances from local, national and international artists. A Rhode Island native, AKB makes home in Dartmouth, MA with her husband, two children and five chickens. <a href="http://www.alikennerbroddsky.com" title="http://www.alikennerbroddsky.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.alikennerbroddsky.com</a> @akbandco Of her work, Ali writes "Dance making for me is about organizing both movement and emotion. I channel emotions and tell stories, internalizing people’s idiosyncrasies and translating them into gestures. These gestures become the seeds of movement phrases which in turn are further developed in relation to sound, space, design etc. " These films were made in collaboration with:<a href="https://jbhorn.com/" title="https://jbhorn.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jarret Blinkhorn</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/therichferri/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/therichferri/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rich Ferri</a><a href="https://www.jennapollack.com/" title="https://www.jennapollack.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jenna Pollack</a><a href="https://morganeveswain.com/" title="https://morganeveswain.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MorganEve Swain</a>

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