Video and live performance works by 43 collaborating artists from across the community—including Eastman School of Music, the University of Rochester’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY College at Brockport, the Visual Studies Workshop, and William Smith College—will highlight the 12th annual ImageMovementSound Festival.
The program, along with two interactive installation works, will be presented at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in RIT’s Ingle Auditorium. Tickets are $6 (free for students with ID) and can be purchased at the door. A reception with the artists will follow the program.
The ImageMovementSound Festival, co-founded and co-directed by Eastman School Professor of Composition Allan Schindler, showcases collaborative projects that interweave dance, film, music, and other art forms. Works are conceived and realized by groups of Rochester area choreographers, dancers, film and image makers, composers and musicians, graphic and media artists, and artists from other disciplines.
The April 6 program features 15 works, including “Currents,” a six-minute work by Stephanie Maxwell of RIT, with music by Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte-Lopez of the Eastman School, a tapestry of sound, color, and motion that follows changing currents toward a final surge; and “Moving Parts, Emotive Fantasy,” a 10-minute work that expresses the tension between the body as a machine and the body as sentient whole, with choreography by Heather Roffe of SUNY Brockport, music by Andrew Allen of the Eastman School, and videography by Ryan Suits of RIT.
Preceding the April 6 program, installation works will be on exhibit at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave., from March 26 to April 4. The concluding festival presentation, a free event titled “The Best of ImageMovementSound,” will showcase important works created for festivals over the past several years and will be held at noon on Saturday, May 3, in RIT’s Ingle Auditorium. Works premiered during previous ImageMovementSound events have gone on to achieve recognition and win awards at international festivals, competitions, and venues.
For more information, visit www.imsfestival.org or call 585-475-6127.
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