Artists & Projects Directory

• Cie Heddy Maalem
• Dan Hurlin
• David Roussève
• Emio Greco|PC
• Gregory Maqoma
• Kassys
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
• Ralph Lemon
• Rha Goddess
• The America Project
• Yasuko Yokoshi

Cie Heddy Maalem

Black Spring (2002, 26 min.)
A dance film choreographed by Heddy Maalem and directed by Le Sacre collaborator Benoît Dervaux, Black Spring will be screened concurrent with performances in several cities during the U.S. tour.  Winner of the "Best Choreography for the Camera Award" at the 2003 New York Dance on Camera Festival, the film questions our way of looking at African bodies in movement.  The choreography, interspersed with scenes of contemporary life in Lagos, Nigeria, highlights both the political and emotional sensitivities of modern African dance.

Les Printemps du Sacre (1993, 60 min.)
Stravinksy's Le Sacre du Printemps has been choreographed over 1000 times.  This documentary film, directed by Jacques Malaterre and Brigitte Hernandez, explores the use of the score in the original 1913 Nijinsky work; in the Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer reconstruction with the Joffrey Ballet; and by five modern dance choreographers-Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, Mats Ek, Maurice Bejart and Pina Bausch.

LAGOS/KOOLHAAS (2002, 55 min.)
For a look at the complexity of Lagos from another perspective, director Bregtje van der Haak's film follows renowned architect Rem Koolhaas on repeated research trips through the city, as he examines the informal structures and alternative systems created to deal with its inadequate infrastructure and huge population growth. Both Koolhaas and Maalem, though their media are very different, explore the complexity and meaning of this 21^st Century "Supercity."