WHAT? NO FOOTLOOSE? >>>

Earlier this week I asked The Barefoot Collective folks for a list of films they'll be screening Monday night as part of their Dance Film Night event. This morning the list arrived via a press release.

No Footloose.

I can only hope Barefoot will spin "Let's Hear it for the Boy" as bumper music between the films.

The Dance Film Night press release is after the jump. It looks solid. ...

The BareFoot Collective  presents Dance Film Night. Featuring dance films by artists from New York, California and the Puget Sound.

Dance Film Night is an evening of dance film highlighting some of the most innovative and challenging movement film artists. For one night only, March 1 at  8 pm  located at the Merlino Art Center, Tacoma City Ballet  "studio B,"  508  6th avenue Tacoma, WA 98402. $5 cash or check at the door.

Included in the evening are films by Tacoma based artists Michael Hoover and  BQ Danza.  Hoover's  film Affinity combines the use of clever computer animation and his strong, demanding, dance choreography. Frame created by BQ Danza includes the beauty of a older, well used,  neglected Seattle building.  The dancers move in and out of door ways, windows, and around pillars, with lithe sometimes quick, off balanced movements.

Somebodies Dance Theater shows their film Bodies of Water a combination of a parched environment, exquisitely filmed, and gestural exploration.  Also from southern California, Kenny McNett's duo of short films Danger Dancer, and Three in Metropolis, shows the humor and imagination of this clever film maker.

Edgar Fun Degas, by  Seattle based choreographer Rachel Randall and filmmaker Nathan Vass explores the process of a final rehearsal before a performance, wonderfully filmed in black and white allowing the focus to be on the movement and increased emotional level required to prepare for a dance concert. NorthWest Dance Syndrome unites with filmmaker Tyson James Theroux, to explore the eerie movement of Theroux's worst fears, weaving several haunting scenes into one long nightmare entitled Nocturne.

Also included in the evening is New York based artist Kimberly Kaplan's Park Trio,  Seattle's,  Kathryn Hightower's Summer Storm Solos, filmed in a thunderous Washington D. C.   Green Triangle, Poopy Park created by Rachel Randall and Nathan Vass, and Amanda Herman's fun guerilla filmed Footage.

Don't miss this opportunity to see some great dance film! Yes, there will be popcorn.