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Façade
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View Official Website	Release Date: 2008-06-01 Running Time: 0:00 Content Rating: GA (General Audience)	DVD Region: 1 - U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories Media Format: DVD-R Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Genres: Video Art :: Dance >> Other :: Short Films >> General

Synopsis

Façade is an experimental dance-video work in seven tracks by Jane Jerardi and Ginger Wagg, with an original score by Rebecca Mills performed by Mills and Tristana Fiscella. Made for DVD, it reflects on our contemporary experience of urban renewal with the uneven building, rebuilding and recreation that typifies gentrification. With slow shifts and redevelopment of sites, lots and neighborhoods over time to make way for new businesses and residencies, we are often unable to remember or identify what stood in these places before.

Mixing video, live dance and other visuals, Wagg and Jerardi took audiences on a live tour through the upper floors of The Warehouse, the Washington, DC art space, in fall 2006. This DVD-R recreates that journey in a work created specifically for video. Videography by Michael Wichita with additional video by Fernando Ortega.

Radar wrote of the duo's earlier performance work: "It makes you...facinated, unable to leave."

More information: www.proliferatedance.net or www.janejerardi.com.

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DVD-R, directed by Jane Jerardi and Ginger Wagg; original score Rebecca Mills from performance by Rebecca Mills and Tristana Fiscella; videography by Michael Wichita, additional camera work by Fernando Ortega and Jane Jerardi; editing by Jane Jerardi and Fernando Ortega; additional stills by Michael Wichita and Ginger Wagg; costumes by Ginger Wagg, Jane Jerardi and Roxann Morgan.

created through the support of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Crew

Co-Director: Jane Jerardi | bio
Jane Jerardi is an artist, dancer and choreographer based in Washington, DC, whose work moves fluidly between media, from performances for curious sites to the stage, to dance for the screen. Her most recent projects have taken her into experiental video-dance and include Efficiency, Façade, and Chance. She founded Proliferate, a DVD-R label specifically for dance for the screen, in 2008.
Co-Director: Ginger Wagg | bio
Ginger Wagg, a dance artist focused primarily on improvisation and multidisciplinary collaboration, is committed to bringing visibility to experimental performance by using alternative venues. In 2006, she co-directed Façade with Jane Jerardi.

Accolades

Press Reviews

The Washington Post (for live performance) | show/hide snippet
"Facade" starts with a pixie-looking gal dancing on the steep, creaky staircase that leads to the third-floor attic of the Warehouse, a space that the venue rarely opens to the public. The audience watches her from the bottom of the stairs as a cacophony plays on a stereo. It's the beginning of a 30-minute installation in which viewers take in dance, sculpture, a slide show, video projections, recorded sound and a live band...The idea of construction weaves through "Facade." Jerardi and Wagg both wear pieces of orange plastic fencing around their waists and they present a slide show of photos of buildings under construction. That cacophony on the staircase was recorded at building sites and remixed. Their goal is to capture the feeling of transformation...