In this screening, view two short dance films, to be near you (2021), and between silences (2018), featuring choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Brodsky.
This program is the first of a dance film series presented in collaboration with the The Dance Complex. Join us on March 21, 2024 for the next in the series, featuring Rachel Linsky.
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to be near you. (2021) is a dance film that pushes at the boundaries of time to create a feeling of reconnecting with something, or someone, who is gone. Based on a live duet between Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jenna Pollack, to be near you. honors the memory of those we have lost, collapses distance by energizing the spaces between, and demonstrates how people can find connection through physical separation.
Ali, Choreographer & Director, worked with Rich Ferri, Director of Photography; Jarret Blinkhorn, Co-Director; and Composer MorganEve Swain to bring this film to life. The creation of the film was made possible with support from the Jamestown Arts Center in Jamestown, Rhode Island; and from the SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine through a New England States Touring Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and a New England Dance Fund Grant also through NEFA.
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between silences (2018) is a dance film based on Ali’s live work, the most depressing piece… and made in collaboration with filmmaker Rich Ferri and composer MorganEve Swain. There is a richness in isolation as trauma is relayed through the body and in conversation with her surroundings. between silences portrays her journey through grief as she investigates how to love, to lose, to grieve, and to pick up the pieces.
The creation of the film was made possible with support from the New England Dance Fund Grant also through NEFA.
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Ali Kenner Brodsky makes gesturally rich and emotionally driven dance-theater works and dance films. Her work makes space for you to become absorbed in a world of reflection, remembering, and connection. AKB received a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Choreography Fellowship and was honored to be a part of NEFA’S NE Regional Dance Development Initiative 2021/22. With David Henry, Lila Hurwitz and Andy Russ, Ali co-founded Motion State Arts, which presents innovative dance-films and live performances from local, national and international artists. A Rhode Island native, AKB makes home in Dartmouth, MA with her husband, two children and five chickens.
