Film Series on Dance Starts the Fall Season
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. – A film series on dance will be shown this fall at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, in lieu of live performances, as construction is being completed on its new Kumble Theater.

The first film in the series will take place on Wednesday, September 22, at noon in the Campus’s Spike Lee Screening Room (LLC 122), as part of the Dance Department’s free “Afternoons at LIU” concert series. Other dates in the series are Wednesdays, October 6 and 13, and November 10.

On September 22, the film series will begin with “Limón: A Life Beyond Words,” depicting the career and contributions of modern dance pioneer, José Limón, and narrated by the late actress, author and teacher Uta Hagen. Director Malachi Roth will introduce the work and conduct a discussion.

Roth has directed four short films, most recently “The Peace Candidate,” a documentary on presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Other works include “Actors,” “Plain English,” and “Sour Instinct,” which won the award for Best Experimental Film at the Philadelphia International Film Festival. He has been awarded a filmmaking grant by the New York State Council on the Arts, and is currently embarking on the production of his first narrative film, “Exit 42.”

Described by Deborah Jowitt of the The Village Voice as “important to the entire dance world and to those everywhere who value artists,” the film is produced by Ann Vachon and Jeff Levy-Hinte. Vachon, director of the Limón Institute, is a professor of dance at Temple University. She initiated the project, researched the archival materials, conducted the interviews, and collaborated on the treatment, script, and narration. Levy-Hinte most recently co-produced the film, “Thirteen.”

The Dance Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus developed its “Afternoons at LIU” series of dance concerts more than a decade ago to make dance artists accessible to students and the public. The department offers a B.F.A. in Dance, with concentrations in performance and choreography.

For more information, call Noel Hall at (718) 488-3355.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.