Film Screening at Krannert Art Museum
August 12, 2005
Urbana, IL - Announcing AfroSocialiteLifeDiva, a special dance film screening at Krannert Art Museum, Sunday, August 28th, 2005, from 3pm.
"AfroSocialiteLifeDiva" will be screened at the Krannert Art Museum in room 62. The piece was filmed locally in Champaign-Urbana in October of 2004, due to the great generosity of Champaign-Urbana Community. Days after the film's August 25th airing on the European Television Arts Channel, Canal Arte, local choreographer Cynthia Oliver and German director and documentary filmmaker Marcus Behrens will present the film to American audiences, beginning here in Urbana-Champaign. Please join the artists after the screening for refreshments and conversation.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
AfroSocialiteLifeDiva integrates movement, story, and sound to reveal portraits of women in transformation. Through autobiographical and mythic stories, Oliver's work follows the emotional and spiritual changes that take place from one generation to the next, from Harlem to the American South, to the Caribbean. With sweeping group choreographic sequences and individual anecdotes, AfroSocialiteLifeDiva tells the story of a heroic woman, a composite of generations of women whose body expresses the physical poetry of her heritage.
The Krannert Art Museum is located at 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign.
This project is supported by The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The Creative Capital Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. For further information please call 217.384.8231 and/or visit the website www.cynthiaoliver.com.