Videodance, works from the Centre Pompidou at Hyde Park Art Center

June 21 to July 20, 2008

The crème de la crème of international contemporary art and dance films will be featured in Videodance: works from the Centre Pompidou, an exhibition projected on the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery and in the Black Box Gallery. The Center Pompidou (Paris, France) is a pioneer in commissioning visual artists to work with choreographers to produce a new work for the Pompidou’s annual festival titled Vidéodanse. For the first time in the US, these important video works spanning a 25 year history of collaborations between contemporary dance and movement with film and video will be shown.

Videodance consists of a careful selection of video works made by artists from the United States and Europe between 1978 and 2008 presented by the Centre Pompidou. From April to June, the Pompidou Museum becomes alive with public screenings featuring hundreds of films made in collaboration between choreographers, dancers, film makers and video artists. The Art Center will feature over 30 works chosen by Michèle Bargue, Vidéodanse curator, and screened in their entirety in a black box gallery. Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Anna Halprin, DV8 Physical Theatre, Gilles Jobin, Charles Atlas, John Baldessari, Mona Hatoum, and Isaac Julien are just some of the many artists included in this ambitious program.

"It's a not-to-be-missed opportunity to check out creative forces that never or rarely make it to our shores, such as Pina Bausch, Maguy Marin, Dominique Bagouet, Philippe Decoufle and Mats Ek" -TimeOut Chicago

Videdance is organized by the Hyde Park Art Center in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago .

A program of works, running times and days of screenings is available on the Hyde Park Art Center’s website.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery & Black Box Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday: 12 pm - 8 pm
Friday - Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm

For further information : www.hydeparkart.org