A documentary directed by Anne Bass, “Dancing Across Borders”, has been added to the Opening Weekend schedule of the Festival. A free screening of the film will take place on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at Noon in the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven.
Dancing Across Borders depicts a young man’s intimate and triumphant journey from the serene countryside of Cambodia to the halls of America’s premier ballet training academy, New York’s School of American Ballet, and the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. The film is an inspiring story of growth, adaptation, and belonging, as well as of the development of talent and the mastery of an art form. The movie includes footage of Sokvannara Sar dancing while Philip Glass plays piano at the Vail International Dance Festival. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A session with Ms. Bass and Mr. Sar.
"Dancing Across Borders" will be followed at 3pm by the Ideas event Collaboration & Invention: A Conversation with Lucinda Childs & Philip Glass in Yale University Art Gallery.
Click here to watch a preview video of Lucinda Childs Dance, a collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt which opens the Festival on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 8pm in the Shubert Theater.
Click here to purchase tickets for Lucinda Childs Dance online.