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ECSTASIE Screening
April 19 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
SPECIAL SCREENING AND CONVERSATION: ECSTASIE / TRAVESTY
Being among community and having generative conversation feel increasingly potent. We’d love to share our work and invite you to this unique occasion of viewing two powerful new documentary shorts: ECSTASIE and TRAVESTY.
Screening will be followed by a lively discussion around queer embodiment, ecstasy as a creative practice, the legacies of genre-bending art, and how to engage with representational politics. Speakers will include the filmmakers, Liz Rosenfeld, Ansley Vandebrouke, other polymath creatives (TBC), and you!
PLEASE NOTE: This event will start on time. Please arrive 15 min early to secure your seat.
ECSTASIE: A fusion of experimental documentary storytelling with live performance re-visions cinematic conventions and explores the privilege and responsibility of physical presence, prompting viewers to reconsider the power dynamics inherent in our role as observers. Directed by Lily Baldwin in collaboration with artist Liz Rosenfeld. Produced by Margo Mars (Lief Studio) and executive produced by Sam Feder (Disclosure, Heightened Scrutiny).
TRAVESTY: Trans and non-binary dancers of Ballez, the company led by Katy Pyle, explore their place in a lineage of drag and gender-play rooted in the travesty productions of 1870s Paris, while wrestling with the restrictions of the contemporary dance world. Featuring Katy Pyle. Directed by Courtney Powell.
MODERATOR BIO
–> Aynsley Vandenbroucke is a performance maker, writer, teacher, and curator who can no longer distinguish between these roles. She’s obsessed with the movement of ideas, the choreography of language and experiences. Called “gifted” by The New Yorker and “an elegant, sensitive thinker” by The New York Times, her performances have been presented by Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, and the Chocolate Factory. Her writing has been published by Seneca Review, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and The Brooklyn Rail. Aynsley co-founded Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill mountains and served as artistic director, curator, producer, and board member there in varying degrees until it closed in 2021. She has taught interdisciplinary courses within the dance program at Princeton University since 2011.