Assistant Professor of Dance Zelma Badu-Younge is bringing dance and film together in the Moving Images International Dance Film Festival this Friday.
An exciting collection of contemporary dance films by Canadian, American, African and Australian choreographers, will open the annual OhioDance Festival, which is hosted this year by Ohio University. Highlights include works by O'Vertigo Danse and award-winning filmmaker Laura Taler and a lecture demonstration by Philip Szporer, a freelance writer, broadcaster and Scholar in Residence at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Screenings will run from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema on Court Street and from 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Shirley Wimmer Dance Theatre in Putnam Hall. All film showings are free and open to the public.
In addition to the film screenings, the festival includes an OhioDance Showcase concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Shirley Wimmer Dance Theatre. The showcase features some of Ohio's most sophisticated choreography and performance talent representing the diversity and excellence of dance in Ohio. Admission is $12 for seniors and students and $15 for adults.
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