Film/video

Black Swan, a psychological thriller by Darren Aronofsky starring Natalie Portman, will open this year's Venice film festival, which runs from 1 - 11 September. It's being released in the US on 1 December, but no date has yet been confirmed for when it will be screened in the UK. Meanwhile, here's a nail biting trailer to whet your appetite... 

Way of the Morris
4-5 September, 4pm
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre. Ticket Office: 0844 875 0073
Admission free, booking required
Info & online booking
The documentary Way of the Morris follows filmmaker Tim Plester's search for a connection with the native dance traditions of his family. This film is unclassified; parental guidance is recommended.
Screenings begin at 4pm. Saturday's screening is followed by a Q&A with Tim Plester and fellow director Rob Curry.
Please note - this free event requires a ticket. You can reserve your ticket online (£1.45 transaction fee) or by phone 0844 847 9910 (£2.50 transaction fee). Transaction fees apply per transaction, not per ticket. You can also reserve your seat without a transaction fee by visiting one of the Southbank Centre Ticket Offices in person.
5000 Morris Dancers Weekend

From the Ballets Russes
A season of dance and documentaries to mark the centenary of the Ballets Russes.
3-28 September
National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank
Booking: 020 7928 3232
Info & online booking
BFI Southbank celebrate the innovation of Serge Diaghilev, his collaborators and successors, introducing a season of dance and documentaries to mark the centenary of the Ballets Russes.

Film screenings include:
The God of the Dance 3 Sep 5.50pm, 26 Sep 6.20pm
Mostly Massine  7 Sep 8.15pm, 23 Sep 6.20pm
Anna Pavlova and Her Ballet Master, Alexander Shryaev 10 Sep 6pm, 28 Sep 6.10pm
Reflections on the Early Ballet Russes  14 Sep 6.20pm
www.bfi.org.uk

Exhibition at the V&A: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1909-1929

Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller, dead reckoning
23 & 25 September, Lilian Baylis Studio
Box office: 0844 412 4300
Info & online booking
Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller's dead reckoning offers a panoramic view on events as it reconfigures the space inside four intersecting screens using projected film. This creates a fascinating fragmentation of sight and the body as spectators move around the object, trying to see the whole.
Part of Rosemary Butcher's Festival of Miniatures

Rosemary Butcher, Lapped Translated Lines
1-3 October, Lilian Baylis Studio
Box office: 0844 412 4300
Info & Online booking
Lapped Translated Lines is a collaborative piece with concept and choreography by Rosemary Butcher with filmmaker Daria Martin and architects Matthew Butcher and Melissa Appleton, in which the internal senses of performer Elena Giannotti are amplified using sound and video. Destructive Navigations is a free event prior to Lapped Translated Lines, created by Butcher with visual artist Pablo Bronstein.
Part of Rosemary Butcher's Festival of Miniatures

Trisha Brown - Film Programme
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall & Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
Sat 16 October, 11am - 12.30pm. Southbank Centre
Sun 17 October, 3pm - 6.15pm. Tate Modern
Box office: 0844 412 4312. Tickets: £7 (concs 50% off - limited availability)
Enhance your experience of Trisha Brown's choreography with this unique opportunity to view a range of her work on film from the last 40 years.
Shot Backstage filmed by Brown from the theatre wings, gives an unusual glimpse of her Company's performance of For MG: The Movie.
Archive footage of Early Works sees the early casts of many of the works that will be performed in Tate Modern, including renowned artists Douglas Dunn, Steve Paxton and Sarah Rudner. Brown herself dances in some of her iconic works including Watermotor and Jonathan Demme's film of Accumulation With Talking Plus Watermotor. Burt Barr's Aeros, a film of Brown's work Astral Convertible, completes the programme.
The screening at Tate Modern also includes, after a short break, a screening of a conversation between Trisha Brown and New York art curator and writer Klaus Kertess. Brown talks about her dance background, early years in New York, work with Judson Dance Theater, and draws upon the link between her work and visual art.
Dance Umbrella

Coming soon...

The Yvonne Rainer Project
26 November 2010 - 23 January 2011
BFI Southbank. Information: 020 7928 3232
(Not yet open for booking, keep checking back on the BFI website for more details)
This November the BFI Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of the legendary American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer (b.1934). The exhibition features three of Rainer's works in the BFI Gallery and is accompanied by screenings of her seven feature films to be shown in the BFI cinemas and a curated programme of artists' works taking place in December.

IN THE CINEMAS AT BFI SOUTHBANK (in December, exact screening dates to be announced nearer the time)
Lives of Performers, 1972 (90 min)
Film about a Woman Who ..., 1974 (90 min)
Kristina Talking Pictures, 1976 (125 min)
Journeys from Berlin/1971, 1980 (125 min)
The Man Who Envied Women, 1985 (125 min)
Privilege, 1990
MURDER and murder, 1996 (113 min)

IN THE ATRIUM AT BFI SOUTHBANK
An excerpt of Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers, 1972, will be shown continuously in the Atrium.

IN THE STUDIO AT BFI SOUTHBANK (Exact dates to be announced.)
An accompanying curated screening programme in the BFI Studio takes place over a weekend in December. It features a presentation of Rainer's Five Easy Pieces, alongside video work by contemporary artists who work in the style of choreography for the camera. The artists are: Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Katinka Bock, Jonathan Burrows, Kӧken Ergun, Michel François, Laurent Goldring, Mircea Cantor, Sonia Khurana, Florence Lazar, Bea McMahon, Natacha Nisic, Anri Sala, Beat Streuli, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Su-Mei Tse, Uri Tzaig.
BFI website

The Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker
11 December, 1pm
Showing at the following Odeon Cinemas in London: Richmond, Wimbledon, Kensington, and Covent Garden
20 December, 2pm. 21 December, 6.15pm
Showing at the following Vue Entertainment cinemas in London: Westfield and Harrow
Royal Opera House
A magician with secrets, an enchanted gift, a battle with the Mouse King, a guiding angel and a visit through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. The ballet draws on all the imagination and fantasy of E.T.A. Hoffmann's story of Christmas eve, when young Clara creeps downstairs for one of her presents, but finds herself instead at the start of a night of magical adventures.
Credits: The Royal Ballet, Artists of The Royal Ballet. Director: Peter Wright. Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Conductor: Koen Kessels. Choreographer: Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov.
For full screening information and to find a cinema near you visit
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