Flatlands Dance Film Festival—Curated Films Program

• Event Date: Friday, January 20, 2023
• Time: 7:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: $5 (student/senior); $10 (general)

• Film

The festival's curated evening features works by Alfonso Abraham Cervera, Steve Rosa, Diana Cervera, and Primera Generacion Dance Collective comprised of Cervera, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Patricia Huerta, and Rosa Rodriguez Frazier. These LatinX/e choreographers create works that honor their identities and the various communities that they stem from by using their culturally unapologetic lived experiences as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artist. Each artist showcases works that are in relationship to Latinidad and Mexicanidad using their choreographic strategies of dance, voice, and the dancing body as commentary.

Single screening tickets are $5 (student/senior) and $10 (general). Tickets for individual screenings can be purchased at the Spurlock Museum on the night of the screening.

About the Festival

The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting the art of Dance Cinema, a medium that explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance-making. The festival builds educational platforms, encourages dialogue, and promotes a diverse range of cultural perspectives from around the globe, showcasing a variety of films and shorts dedicated to dance performance, dance for camera, influential artists in the field, and the social impact of dance across the world.

• Presented by the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois
• Director & Curator: Laura Chiaramonte
• Committee Members: Fabiola Elias, Renée Wadleigh