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TIP OF THE WEEK
2002 CineDance Festival

Ray Pride

Performing Arts Chicago's annual celebration of dance on film brings a roster of contemporary avant-garde performance from Canada and Europe to town, including an appearance by Belgian director Walter Verdin on opening night. Films include Clara Van Gool and Lloyd Newson's "Enter Achilles" (1996), a "cruel" look at male social relationships; Wolfgang Kolb's Belgian "Hoppla!" which features the string quartets of Bela Bartok as dancers wend their way through the industrial setting of a Belgian library. "Roseland," based on short stories by Julio Cortazar, finds choreographer and director Wim Vandekeybus creating an impressive and "explosive dance-o-rama of falling objects and bodies." David Hinton and Lloyd Newson's 1989 "Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men" is a brutal, impressive fantasia of fevered, sweaty, sadistic, masochistic anonymous sex between muscled men in a half-prison, half-urban wasteland. "Strange Fish" also features Newson's DV8 Physical Theatre. "Le Dortoire," by Quebec's always-diverting Carbone 14, also impresses with its clamorous rendition of a sleepless night.

The CineDance Festival plays this week at the Film Center, see the Film section movie listings for days and times.

(2002-05-02)

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