PEPI FANDANGO, 2023 documentary by Lucija Stojevic of Noon Films who created LA CHANA began its run in Spanish theatre September 6th. It will be shown at the Dokumentale Festival in Berlin in October, the SGAE documentary cycle in Madrid, Gijon Musical Documentary Festival, Memorimage – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Reus, and the Chania Film Festival (in Greece). At the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Francesco Barone will play two pieces before the screening of the film.
PEPI FANDANGO received El Premio Panorama in Docs Valencia, and a Special Mention from the Malaga Film Festival jury for Best Direction.
Deirdre worked with Noon Films to complete A DANGEROUS JOURNEY, an interactive animation video geared for middle school. The viewers are put in the shoes of three children during WWII – a Sephardic Jewish boy from Vienna, a Roma girl from France, and a Spanish girl fleeing the civil war. Prompts challenge the viewers to reflect on the Holocaust, anti-semitism, discrimination, and how the echoes of the past speak to our present.
BREAD, A Tall Tale was shown as part of BAAD!Ass Women’s Festival 2024 with Olyda Ola and Nellie Tirado singing, dancing live, in Bronx World Film Series 2024 at La Nacional and their summer series, and with the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival 2023 in Rosendale, NY.
The students of University of Houston gave Deirdre a thumbs up for her dance film history lecture in September, 2024, at the invitation of Professor Gabriela Estrada who first invited her to speak to her class in February, 2024. One student wrote, “Dance – in combination with cinematography – showcases emotion as a fluid structure of the psyche.”
Deirdre has also been working with Ann Marie de Angelo on a film around her life as a dance pioneer combining ballet, hip hop and circus arts. D’Angelo was invited to remount her ballet “Paradise” for Mexico’s Ballet de Monterrey which she developed in 1990 as invited by the founder Yolando Santos de Hoyos. Performance is scheduled for March, 2024.
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NWD Projects as part of National Water Dance hosted Deirdre Towers in a residency August 23-29, 2020 in South Thomaston, Maine.
Bell 8 Global Water Dance Day 2017
The original installation was presented by:
Lilac Preservation Project 7/22-9/22/2017
Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the month of 6/2017
Long Island City Arts Open 2016 – “Landscapes From Below” at W3
Multi-media versions were produced by Dixon Place and Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival