Title: New London Calling (download press kit in .pdf)
Running Time : 10 minutes
Year of Release: 2010
Format: HD (1080-59.96i)
Projection Format: HDCAM, others
Aspect Ratio: 16x9
Sound: Stereo
Languages: No Dialogue
for more info contact: akovgan at kinodance.com

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ONE LINE DESCRIPTION
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children takes over the entire city of New London, creating their rites and rituals through playing street games.

ONE PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTION (50 words)
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children take over the entire city of New London, creating their rites and rituals through playing street games. Their vibrant spirit evokes hopes for the future but also melancholy about the glorious past of children culture disappearing from the streets of American cities.

Credits:
director: Alla Kovgan (director's 300dpi photo)
screenplay: Alla Kovgan
choreography: Alissa Cardone and Ingrid Schatz
cinematography: Mkrtich Malkhasyan (above stills credit: Mkrtich Malkhasyan)
editing: Alla Kovgan
art direction and sound recording: Dedalus Wainwright
orginal score and sound design : P. Andrew Willis and Ken Winokur
performers: Middle School of Dual Language Arts Academy, New London, CT, USA
producer: Robert A. Richter
line-producer: Alyssa Frankel
script consultant: David Hinton
on-line editor: Michael H. Amundson
sound mix : Joe Boyd Vigil at Modulus
production company: KINODANCE
distributor: KINODANCE
country of production: USA
commissioned by Connecticut College, supported by the Dayton Artist-in-Residence Program at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, www.connecticutcollege.edu

additional funding by
Citizens Bank
Kinodance Company
The Arts Jobs program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

FESTIVALS and AWARDS:

BIOS of makers:

Alla Kovgan (director) is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Melbourne, Durban, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, PBS (US), ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. Alla's most recent film NORA (2008), her collaboration with the British filmmaker David Hinton, is an art film ––a poetic biography of the Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire. NORA has been an official selection of over 100 festivals, received 25 awards and will be broadcast on PBS and WDR/ARTE in 2010. The two latest documentaries, which Alla co-directed and edited, an Emmy-nominated "Traces of the Trade" (2007) and “"My perestroika"” (2009) premiered at Sundance and on P.O.V. (PBS). Since 1999, Alla has been involved into interdisciplinary collaborations –– creating intermedia performances (with KINODANCE Company), dance films and documentaries about dance such as “– Movement (R)evolution Africa” (with Joan Frosch). Alla's projects have been supported by Open Society Institute, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of America Celebrity Series, among others. Since 2000, she has taught and curated dance film and avant-garde cinema worldwide as the Programmer of St. Petersburg Dance Film Festival KINODANCE (Russia) and as a co-Curator of Balagan Film Series (Boston). In 2009, Alla was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a Brother Thomas Fellowship for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity.

Alissa Cardone (choreographer) has performed, taught and toured nationally and internationally in Russia, Armenia, Belgium, France and Japan where trainings with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm), and research & performance engagements with 'Nijinski of Butoh' Akira Kasai were galvanizing. A core member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works (1998-2003), she has worked with Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Elaine Summers, Yoshito Ohno and Nora Chipaumire among others. She has received support from institutions such as Asian Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, Open Society Institute, New England Foundation for the Arts and the Baryshnikov Arts Center/Summer Stages Dance Residency Program. Cardone holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU (2003) and is currently an MFA candidate in UCLA's Department of World Arts & Cultures, where she is recipient of the Elaine Krown-Klein Fine Arts Scholarship and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Performing Arts Award (2009-10). This spring, she took part in “Anthropomorphic”, a new work by French choreographer Xavier Le Roy being developed at MIT.

Ingrid Schatz (choreographer) is a Boston-based dancer and choreographer. She received her BFA in dance from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 and has made a career of pushing the boundaries of dance and in the process has studied aerial dance, horse handling, stilt walking, Authentic Movement. Ms. Schatz currently collaborates with visual artist Michael Dowling and dancer/choreographer DeAnna Pellecchia with whom she founded Kairos Dance Theater and has collaborated/worked with Bennett Dance Company, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Caitlin Corbett Dance Company, Joyce Lim, Ernesto Pujol, Jin-Wen Yu and others. Ms. Schatz a principal dancer and rehearsal director for Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works with whom she has toured, taught, collaborated and choreographed throughout the US and in France and Russia. She has been called "...strong, dramatically intense..." by the Chicago Sun-Times and "...a committed and superbly skilled dancer..." by the Boston Globe.

Dedalus Wainwright (art director) is a visual artist working in sculpture, set design, and multimedia collaborations in the realms of installation, public art, performance, dance, film and theatre. Dedalus is a founding member, installation and set designer for Kinodance Company. Other recent projects of Dedalus' include: Founding member of the New England Expeditionary Alliance who participated in the 2008 Bumpkin Island Artist residency in Boston Harbor; Collaborating with Kathy Couch on a kinetic set design for the Five-College Dance Consortium restaging of Trisha Brown's “"Set/Reset/Reset”", performed at Hampshire, Amherst and Smith Colleges (2006). Dedalus holds a BA in Studio Arts from Hampshire College and maintains a studio at Sculptors Workshop in Allston, MA.

Kinodance Company is an interdisciplinary artist collaborative founded in Boston in 1999 by choreographer/dancer Alissa Cardone, filmmaker Alla Kovgan and visual artist Dedalus Wainwright out of a passion for the kinetic arts, experimentation and a strong belief in the power of interdisciplinary collaborations. Since 2004, core members include choreographer/dancer Ingrid Schatz and lighting designer Kathy Couch. Among Kinodance's creations are intermedia and expanded cinema stage performances, installations and films.

Critics described Kinodance performance as “"stunning"”, "mesmeric", “"a daring and dramatically theatrical experience"”, “…"a breathtaking synthesis of live and filmed dance”, “"mysterious and vivid, formally sophisticated and painterly…"”

Kinodance endeavors merge boundaries between dance, cinema, visual art, and sound, aspiring to develop a common language of interaction among art media. Choreography of elements is the term that Kinodance came up with to formally describe their creative process. In Kinodance performances, each element (dance, cinema, set, sound) is a strong, fully developed score that compliments the others —– sometimes soloing, sometimes partnering, sometimes driving a tight ensemble.

Kinodance's projects have been presented nationally and internationally and supported by NDP/NEFA RDDI Dance Lab, Downstreet Arts/MassMOCA, LEF Contemporary Work Fund, Summer Stages Dance, Bank of America Celebrity Series, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Trust for Mutual Understanding, Monaco Dance Forum, World Music/CrashARTS, Harkness Center Space Grant Project (New York).

In 2008, Kinodance Company was selected as one of Dance Magazine's “"25 To Watch".

 

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