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Next @ the disTHIS! Film Series: disability through a whole new lens

 
 
THE COST OF LIVING
Lloyd Newson, 2004, 35min
... and talkback with the Infinity Dance Company's Kitty Lunn!

When:  Wednesday, September 6th

Where: DCTV, 3rd Floor Screening Room
87 Lafayette Street (between Walker and White)      
2 blocks South of the Canal Street Subway Station.

Time: 6:30 to 9pm.  Screening starts promptly @  7pm

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British physical theatre company DV8’s Lloyd Newsom presents the film adaptation of “The Cost of Living” their dazzling, rave-reviewed show about perfection and pretence, about how society measures individuals and how we in turn, value ourselves.
 
David and Eddie are street performers struggling to get by in a seaside town. As they work, argue, fail at romance and fall out with old friends, they ponder their lives.
 
Words alone can’t do the film justice.  A movie unlike any other, “A Cost of Living” follows a disparate group of dancers as they clash with each other and the local community. Be dazzled in mind and eye by its narrative drive, bold dance pieces and unforgettable characters.
 
A stunning accomplishment, “The Cost of Living” takes place in the twilight zone between who we are and who we think we ought to be.

DV8's work is about taking risks. It is about personal politics, about breaking down barriers between dance and theatre, and above all, about communicating ideas and feelings clearly and unpretentiously.
 
From the New York Times review:
 
This is a piece about something, and someone, who is great, about what a profound pleasure it is to encounter greatness, and about what a persistent concern it is that we live in a culture, more specifically a dance culture, that resists such greatness.
 
From Toronto Now:

The movement arises out of character and situation, whether it's a guy in a nightclub whose nervous tics take over his body, or a woman fighting off a group of boys with a hoola hoop. The film's most memorable moments involve David Toole, a legless dancer who seduces us in a bar, fights off a bigot, gets to dance with a ballerina and shares the film's extraordinary final image.

September's disTHIS! Screening is proud to feature a special talkback session following the screening of "The Cost of Living" with KITTY LUNN, Founder and Artistic Director of the Infinity Dance Company. 

About Kitty Lunn: Ms. Lunn’s love affair with the dance began at the age of eight, when her grandmother took her to see the film "The Red Shoes." By the time she was fifteen, she was dancing principal roles with the New Orleans Civic Ballet, where she made her professional debut in Coppélia.

Her work in New Orleans led to a scholarship to the Washington Ballet where she studied and worked with both Mary Day and the great ballet master Edward Caton. Numerous ballets in which she danced include Swan Lake, Giselle, Les Sylphides, and The Nutcracker. While in Washington, Ms. Lunn worked with such dance legends as Martha Graham, Agnes DeMille, Jose Limon and Erik Bruhn.

While preparing for her first Broadway show, she slipped on ice, fell down a flight of stairs and broke her back. Now a paraplegic using a wheelchair, Ms. Lunn works diligently on behalf of performing artists with disabilities. In the fall of 1995, she founded Infinity Dance Theater, a non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with disabilities and non-disabled dancers.  Infinity Dance Theater is committed to bringing the joy and drama of motion and movement to a new level of inclusion by expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world’s perception of what a dancer is.

To this end, she has developed wheelchair dance techniques strongly rooted in and growing out of classical ballet and modern dance.  We are thrilled to have Ms. Lunn's participation in this event.

 

The disTHIS! Film Series is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Christopher Reeve Foundation.      For more information and to sign up for regular email updates, please visit:
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