PLAYING WITH CINEMA — AMERICAN PERFORMERS EXPERIMENT WITH FRENCH FILMS

Saturday, October 22nd
6:30pm
120 min
The Invisible Dog Art Center
With: Miguel Gutierrez , The National Theater of the United States of America, Annie-B Parson, Dan Safer

Hosted by: Melissa Anderson

Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center and Les Subsistances

American artists will use a few minutes of a French movie (Godard, Tati, Demy, Melville) as the basis of their performances, experiencing the tension between images and bodies on stage and questioning the affinities between the imaginative world of movies, and the imagination of a performer.

What kind of relationship can a performer have with an image on stage? Moving pictures can have an intense presence and catch the eye, and even compete with the physical presence of the performers. The performers then have to deal with it, either through appropriation or rejection: pictures on stage impose some form of negotiation.

Tickets: Free
The Invisible Dog is located at 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn 11201 New York