Fresh Arts Fridays:
An Evening of
Dance & Film
The Cost of Living
Friday, May 16, 2008, 8pm
Discovery Green Park, located in Downtown Houston across from the Convention Center
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Pack a picnic for this special outdoor event at the new Discovery Green park downtown. The evening begins with performances by the University of Houston Dance Ensemble and Travesty Dance Group, who will perform the piece "Green." Aurora Picture Show will follow their performance with a presentation of the dance film The Cost of Living by Choreographer/Director Lloyd Newson of London's DV8 Physical Theater. This 34-minute comic narrative takes us to a faded seaside town where street performers David and Eddie struggle to find work and romance. The film is described as a work that hurls provocations and humor at notions of how the fit and unfit are supposed to act.

The Cost of Living is part of the Dance on Camera Festival touring program made possible in part through the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dance performance at 7PM. Film at 8PM. Watch a preview of The Cost of Living here!

Best Of Dallas Video Festival
A Compilation of Shorts
Saturday, May 17, 8pm
Sunday, May 18, 3pm
Curator Bart Weiss in Attendance
Recognized as, "the key American video festival," DVF features dramatic shorts, animation, experimental video, interactive performance art, short and long-form documentaries, thematic compilations of short independent works, retrospectives, and expert panels on emerging issues.

Films featured in the tour include:
  • Nest of Tens by Miranda July, an experimental narrative of intertwining people
  • Pony Glass by Lewis Khlar, an animated tale of Superman's friend Jimmy Olsen
  • Tryptych by Daniel DeLoach, a cinematic exploration the poetry of Olga Lavrova and Sadistkye Kupleti
  • Glass Jaw by Michael O'Reilly, a gripping portrait of personal trauma
  • Delusions of Modern Primitivism by Daniel Loflin, a documentary about a tattoo- festooned man who considers himself a "collector of custom wearable art"
  • The Subconscious Art of Graffitti Removal by Matt McCormick, a clever examination of graffiti removal and how it has secured its place in the history of modern art.
Bart Weiss is mostly known as the director and founder of the Dallas Video Festival. He produces the TV show "Frame of Mind" on KERA-TV in Dallas, and is the Artistic Director of 3 Stars Cinema. He has taught film and video at Texas' A&M's Visualization Lab, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Austin, and West Virginia State College, and is currently an Associate Professor at UT Arlington.

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Now Available on Aurora Video

The Best of Slant: Volume One is now available from Aurora Video for only $24.95 plus shipping and handling. Click here to check out the trailer and purchase the DVD.

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