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Martha Clarke and Sarah Ford Present An Evening of Film Celebrating Women in the Arts.The films will be followed by a Q & A with Martha and Sarah.
The film Light and Dark features Martha Clarke and is directed by Joyce Chopra. It was originally broadcast nationally on PBS in 1980 and was the Blue-Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival in 1980. The film documents Martha’s imaginative sources, and the process through which she creates an original evening of theatrical dance. The film departs from traditional dance films by looking behind finished performance to its imaginative sources and the process by which performance grows. A founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theater, Martha Clarke left the Company to develop a more openly theatrical evening of her own. Her work is hard to pin down, drawing from modern dance, mime, the traditional clown's repertoire, and form paintings. It is often comic, yet with a pathos wholly original to her own make-up as an artist.
The film Georgia & Me featuring Sarah Ford and directed by Director/Dramaturge Zoya Kachadurian, is the Film Premier of a solo play written by Sarah Ford and filmed with music, visuals, and dance following the reigniting of creative passion and the rediscovery of a forgotten voice. It is about Georgia O’Keeffe, the American Painter who defied the male art world in New York during the 20’s and 30’s, and who confronts Sarah in the midst of a spiritual crisis in dreams, challenging her to rekindle her creative fire! Do you have to choose between love and art?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Martha Clarke is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multi-disciplinary approach to theater, dance, and opera. A graduate of Juilliard, she danced with the Anna Sokolow Company before becoming a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre. She has choreographed for Nederland Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, and The Martha Graham Company, among others. As a director, Ms. Clarke’s original productions include Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna: Lusthaus, The Metamorphosis, Miracolo d’Amore, Endangered Species, An Uncertain Hour, The Hunger Artist, Belle Epoque, Vers La Flame, and Kaos She directed Alice’s Adventures Underground, a collaboration with Christopher Hampton for the Royal National Theater UK, and A Midsummer’s Night Dream for A.R.T.Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Cosi Fan Tutti for Glimmerglass, and Tan Dun’s Marco Polo and Gluck’s Orfeo and Eurydice for New York City Opera, among many others. She created L’Altra Meta del Cielo for La Scala Ballet (2012). Her production of The Threepenny Opera (2014) was at the Atlantic Theater Co. She is a resident artist at the Signature Theater where she directed and choreographed Chéri (2013), based on the novel by Colette and Angel Reapers (2016), a collaboration about the Shakers, with Alfred Uhry. Most recently God’s Fool (2022) a song cycle, based on the life of St Francis was presented by La Mama in New York City. Awards: Ms. Clarke is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, two Joe A. Callaway awards, the Dance Magazine Award, the Samuel H. Scripps/ American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, and most recently, two Lucille Lortel awards. In 2019 received the Flora Roberts award from the Dramatists Guild.
Sarah Ford is a Writer, Actress, Dancer, and Story Coach living in the Boston area, with extensive theatre and dance background in New York City. Sarah has appeared in many off-off Broadway companies including Pulse, Basic Theatre, Actors Collective, and on TV soaps as a day player. More recently she has been a member of the Ted Kazanoff Workshop at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and is currently developing a Story Coaching Workshop.
Sarah is a Juilliard School Graduate with a B.S. degree in Dance. She danced with the Jose Limon Dance Company, Anna Sokolow, and Nimbus Dance Theatre with Erin Martin and Jack Moore. She was an adjunct professor of Dance at Pace University in White Plains, New York, and taught children and adults in the Dance Arts Project in Westchester County. She has also taught movement to actors in New York City. And, by the way, she is originally from West Texas.
Georgia & Me won outstanding Production of a solo show at Midtown International Theatre Festival- July 2011 and in 2019, Sarah rebirthed Georgia & Me. She was inspired to come back to it realizing she is a different person since she wrote the play 2010. Being older, she found herself with a deepened understanding of why Georgia & Me was important in 2010. The “Me Too” movement has charged the air with urgency to bring about new understanding and new expectations and felt that Georgia & Me has renewed relevancy in this new era!
Sarah Ford
Marcia Clarke