Local, national, and international artists and dancers share their current projects during Choreographers Showcase I. This year’s showcase features:
 

• DDC Dances
• Zehnder Dance
• Yukina Sato
• Gabrielle McNeillie
• Jasmine Powell
• CPR Dance: Inhale Movement
• Monica Brady-Barnard
• Rowan Janusiak
• Simone Knowelle Dance Theater
• Aimee McDonald
• Winifred Haun & Dancers

Detroit Dance City Festival (DDCF) is an annual community building event curated by ArtLab J that celebrates dance in its various forms and disciplines. DDCF brings the work of renowned local, national, and international performing artists, choreographers, and companies to the stage in a weekend full of performances, master classes and networking events. 

South Korea/2003—directed by Park Chan-wook

In this influential, unclassifiable film from director Park Chan-wook (Lady Vengeance, Decision to Leave), the main character Oh Dae-Su is suddenly, inexplicably released after being kidnapped and held captive for 15 years.

Desperate to understand the reason for his ordeal, he sets out to track down his tormentors, only to find himself in a cat-and-mouse game that leaves him five days to retrace his past, track down his captors, and, above all, seek violent revenge.

The result is a thriller that’s been an inspiration to filmmakers (Spike Lee did a 2013 remake), and is now returning to the big screen to celebrate its 20th anniversary and stunning new restoration. (120 minutes) 

Virtuoso violinist, Juilliard instrument curator, and Hoboken, N.J. resident Eric Grossman will be joined by family members Lida Lopez Mancheva (piano) and Cecilia Grossman (cello) for this survey of famous composers of the Baroque period, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and their contemporaries.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Betsy Campbell Lecture on Saturday, October 14 has been canceled.

The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Friends of Art & Flowers auxiliary welcomes its 2023 speaker, Claudia West, a leading voice in the emerging field of ecological planting design and co-author of Planting in a Post-Wild World.  

Our cities and suburbs desperately need more inspiring, ecologically rich planting. Yet, budgets are tight and crews and gardeners are often unfamiliar with diverse planting technologies. In her lecture entitled, "Rebuilding Abundance with Ecologically Rich and Evocative Planting," West will share the techniques that her landscape architecture firm, Phyto Studio, applies to tackle the maintenance challenge and create ecologically rich and inspiring planting.
 

Join InsideOut Literary Arts and some of Detroit's finest poets for a performance celebrating the photography of James Barnor. Featuring performances by MARS, Kweku Abimbola, La Shaun phoenix Moore, Peace Bell, and Robert Laidler, the event will showcase new poetic works written during visits to the exhibition James Barnor: Accra/ London. 

• Kweku Abimbola is of Gambian, Ghanaian, and Sierra Leonean descent. His first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, won the Academy of American Poets First Book Prize. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writing Program. 
• MARS. is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook, FLOWER BOI, is available via Gold Line Press.  
• La Shaun phoenix Moore is a Detroit-based vocalist, spoken word artist, activist and culture creator whose work incorporates personal and cultural influences. She is the recipient of the 2020 and 2021 Creators of Culture Award by CultureSource. 
• Peace Bell is a recording artist, Grand Slam champion and InsideOut Literary Arts writer-in-residence. Peace is the producer and host of the Open Mind Mic Series in downtown Detroit with her husband, comedian J Bell. 
• Robert Laidler is an assistant professor at Wayne State and the author of a poetic libretto, The Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, which premiered at Chamber Music Detroit in 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writing Program. 

Directed by Mikko Niskanen / 1972

This long unsung landmark of Finnish cinema, inspired by an actual 1969 event, is the magnum opus of the virtually unknown (in the U.S.) writer-producer-director-actor Mikko Niskanen. He delivers a shattering performance as Pasi, a farmer who struggles to support his family through occasional odd jobs and who seeks aid and comfort in alcohol—making it, selling it, drinking it—which creates for his family, brings him into conflict with the law, and leads him on a gradual slide toward oblivion.

Presented here in its original four-chapter format as made for Finnish television in 1972, this monumental vision of human endurance is the rare, great epic woven from the fabric of ordinary life. Restored by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, with funding by the Lucas Family Foundation, it will be screened once only in its entirety.

In Finnish with English subtitles. (5 hours 16 minutes, plus intermission) Crystal Gallery Café will be open during intermission.

“The crowning achievement of Finnish filmmaking and one of the masterpieces of European cinema.” –Aki Kaurismäki

Directed by Manuela Martelli / 2022

In this much-awarded movie, all seems fine in the comfortable Chilean bourgeois world of Carmen (played by Aline Kuppenheim) and her family. She has a summer house she’s renovating, and performs charitable works through her church. But when the family priest asks her to take care of an injured young man he has been sheltering in secret, Carmen is unwittingly drawn into the world of Chilean politics—with potentially disastrous consequences for her family.

Building convincingly from quiet character study to gripping Hitchcockian thriller, Chile ’76 explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political realities during the early days of the Pinochet dictatorship. In Spanish with English subtitles. (95 minutes)

“A period thriller of beguiling power, energized by its portrait of one woman’s heroism.” —Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

Directed by Federico Fellini, 1953 | 1 hour 44 minutes

Fellini's first international success, based on memories of his youth, focuses on five layabouts in a sleepy seaside town during the winter off-season. Skirt-chaser Franco Fabrizi is forced into marriage but has eyes for his boss’s wife; would-be poet Leopoldo Trieste (later Signor Roberto in The Godfather Part II) gets to read his poetry to the actor he idolizes, with an unwelcome result, and Fellini's brother Ricardo Fellini emcees at a seedy beauty pageant. Only the youngest, Shoeshine’s Franco Interlenghi, will get out.

Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and recipient of a rare Academy Award® nomination for a foreign-language screenplay, I Vitelloni features the second and possibly greatest of composer Nino Rota’s 16 Fellini film scores. An inspiration in style and story for films from as George Lucas’s American Graffiti and Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, this Fellini masterwork is now available in a glorious 4K restoration. In Italian with English subtitles.

“Captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone: the moment you realize you can either grow up, or stay forever a child.” —Martin Scorsese

France/1939—directed by Jean Renoir |106 minutes

Considered one of the greatest movies ever made. The plot—a weekend gathering at a chateau where a group of guests come together ostensibly for a pleasant getaway—is a subtle, scathing portrayal of class and social hypocrisy, as well as a groundbreaking visual masterpiece. François Truffaut called The Rules of the Game “the film of films.” 

In French with English subtitles. 

“As fresh, funny and poignant as it ever was, and even more mysterious. How did Renoir do it?” –J. Hoberman, The New York Times
 

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. All aspects of hip-hop culture are being celebrated in the community and around the world. While many tributes are male-dominated, this performance celebrates the contributions of women in hip hop.

"Let’s make the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop a time to engage. Look to the future, support, effect change." —Ice T