New London Calling Running Time - Kinodance Company

New London Calling
Running Time: 10 minutes. Year of Release: 2010. Format: HD (1080-59.96i).
Aspect Ratio: 16x9. Sound: Stereo Languages: No dialog
Credits:
director: Alla Kovgan
screenplay: Alla Kovgan
choreography: Alissa Cardone and Ingrid Schatz
cinematography: Mkrtich Malkhasyan
editing: Alla Kovgan
art direction and sound recording: Dedalus Wainwright
original score and sound design : P. Andrew Willis and Ken Winokur
performers: Middle School of Dual Language Arts Academy, New London, CT, USA
producer: Robert A. Richter
line-producer: Alyssa Frankel
script consultant: David Hinton
on-line editor: Michael H. Amundson
sound mix : Joe Boyd Vigil at Modulus
production company: KINODANCE
distributor: KINODANCE
country of production: USA
commissioned by commissioned by Connecticut College, supported by the Dayton Artist-in-
Residence Program at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA,
www.connecticutcollege.edu
additional funding by
Citizens Bank , Kinodance Company
The Arts Jobs program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html

ONE LINE DESCRIPTION
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children takes over the entire city of New London, creating their
rites and rituals through playing street games.
ONE PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTION (50 words)
An unsupervised tribe of 75 children take over the entire city of New London, creating their
rites and rituals through playing street games. Their vibrant spirit evokes hopes for the future
but also melancholy about the glorious past of children culture disappearing from the streets of
American cities.
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html

FESTIVALS and AWARDS:
• January 31, 2011 - Video Danza, Barcelona, Spain http://www.nu2s.org/idn/
• February 10-20, 2011 - The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, "Urban
Research" curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohrs, http://www.directorslounge.net,
http://richfilm.tumblr.com/
• February 28, 2011 - Black Maria Film Festival, Newark, NJ,
http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org
((DIRECTOR's CHOICE AWARD))
• March 17-27, 2011 - Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA), Montreal, Canada,
http://www.artfifa.com
• March 18, 2011 - Edison State College, Fort Myers, FL,
http://www.myriverdistrict.com/river-district-press-releases/106-5th-year-internationalfilm-festival-returns-to-southwest-florida-.html
• March 20, 2011 - Young About International Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (
(("APPLAUSES FROM THE ADULTS JURY" AWARD))
http://www.youngabout.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172:ivincitori-di-yiff-2011&catid=50:accordion-home&Itemid=254&lang=en
• March 24-28, 2011 - Loikka Dance Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland,
http://www.loikka.fi/
• March 26, 2011 - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, US
http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/events/Black-Maria-line-up.aspx
• March 31, 2011 - The HUB, London, UK, http://kingscross.the-hub.net/public/
• April 14, 2011 - Gulf Film Festival, Dubai, The United Arab Emirates,
http://www.gulffilmfest.com
• May 5-21, 2011 - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival (Indie Junior Section)
Lisbon, Portugal, http://www.indielisboa.com
• June 2-12, 2011 - The 21th MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival,
Szombathely, Hungary, http://www.mediawavefestival.hu
• June 6-16, 2011 - Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA,
http://www.dancecamerawest.org/
• March 3-13, 2012 - Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Cairo, Egypt
PRESS QUOTES:
"Pure action and movement are the main characters of the short film by Alla Kovgan, who puts
the children’s body and games at the center of New London calling. Images chase the children
and children chase the images, creating a representation of childhood which is full of esthetic
charm and found again vitality." - Jury Citation, Young About Film Festival, Italy
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html

BIOGRAPHY OF FILMMAKERS:
ALLA KOVGAN (director) Birth place: Russia, Birth date: June 3, 1973
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that
she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance, Rotterdam,
Toronto, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Tate Modern, and numerous others.
Alla's recent film NORA (2008) – her collaboration with a British filmmaker David Hinton and
a Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire, has been presented at over 100 festivals. It
received 30 awards. It was also selected to represent the US at INPUT 2011 and was broadcast
on ARTE/ZDF, PBS, LINK TV, Spanish and Norwegian TV. Within the last five years, Alla codirected,
wrote and edited two documentary-features an Emmy-nominated TRACES OF THE
TRADE (2007) and MOVEMENT REVOLUTION AFRICA (2008). She also edited MY
PERESTROIKA (2010), which premiered at Sundance and was broadcast on PBS. Since 1999,
Alla has been a member of the KINODANCE Company, an interdisciplinary artist
collaborative, which creates intermedia performances and installations. KINODANCE's work
has been supported by the Bank of America Celebrity Series, ICA (Boston), New England
Foundation for the Arts and others. In 2008, KINODANCE was selected as one of Dance
Magazine’s “25 To Watch”. Since 2000, Alla has taught and curated dance film/avant-garde
cinema worldwide as the Programmer of St. Petersburg Dance Film Festival KINODANCE
(Russia) and as a co-Curator of Balagan Film Series (Boston). She received many awards
including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2009) and Brother Thomas Fellowship
(2009) for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity.
FILMOGRAPHIES:
Alla Kovgan, Filmography (by year) (*DIRECTOR, if not specified)
New London Calling - 2010, 10 min, HD (DIRECTOR, EDITOR)
My Perestroika – 2010, 87min, DV 24p (EDITOR)
Nora – 2008, 35min, HD (WRITER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR)
Traces of the Trade: A story from the Deep North – 2007, 82min, D-BETA (WRITER, CO-
DIRECTOR, EDITOR)
Movement (R)evolution Africa – 2007, 65min, D-BETA (CO-DIRECTOR, EDITOR)
Arcus – 2003, 4.5min, DV
Touch – 2003, 7.5min, DV
African Dance: Sand, Drum and Shostakovich – 2002, 70min, DV
Surface – 2000, 9min, super8 on video
Aching – 1999, 10min, 16mm
Belongings – 1998, 21min, super8 on 16mm
Alissa Cardone (choreographer) has performed, taught and toured nationally and
internationally in Russia, Armenia, Belgium, France and Japan where trainings with Min
Tanaka (Body Weather Farm), and research & performance engagements with 'Nijinski of
Butoh' Akira Kasai were galvanizing. A core member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works
(1998-2003), she has worked with Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Elaine Summers, Yoshito
Ohno and Nora Chipaumire among others. She has received support from institutions such as
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html

Asian Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, Open Society Institute,
New England Foundation for the Arts and the Baryshnikov Arts Center/Summer Stages Dance
Residency Program. Cardone holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU (2003) and is
currently an MFA candidate in UCLA's Department of World Arts & Cultures, where she is
recipient of the Elaine Krown-Klein Fine Arts Scholarship and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin
Performing Arts Award (2009-10). This spring, she took part in “Anthropomorphic”, a new
work by French choreographer Xavier Le Roy being developed at MIT.
Ingrid Schatz (choreographer) is a Boston-based dancer and choreographer. She received her
BFA in dance from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 and has made a career of pushing
the boundaries of dance and in the process has studied aerial dance, horse handling, stilt
walking, Authentic Movement. Ms. Schatz currently collaborates with visual artist Michael
Dowling and dancer/choreographer DeAnna Pellecchia with whom she founded Kairos Dance
Theater and has collaborated/worked with Bennett Dance Company, Nicola Hawkins Dance
Company, Caitlin Corbett Dance Company, Joyce Lim, Ernesto Pujol, Jin-Wen Yu and others.
Ms. Schatz a principal dancer and rehearsal director for Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works
with whom she has toured, taught, collaborated and choreographed throughout the US and in
France and Russia. She has been called "...strong, dramatically intense..." by the Chicago Sun-
Times and "...a committed and superbly skilled dancer..." by the Boston Globe.
Dedalus Wainwright (art director) is a visual artist working in sculpture, set design, and
multimedia collaborations in the realms of installation, public art, performance, dance, film
and theatre. Dedalus is a founding member, installation and set designer for Kinodance
Company. Other recent projects of Dedalus’ include: Founding member of the New England
Expeditionary Alliance who participated in the 2008 Bumpkin Island Artist residency in Boston
Harbor; Collaborating with Kathy Couch on a kinetic set design for the Five-College Dance
Consortium restaging of Trisha Brown’s “Set/Reset/Reset”, performed at Hampshire, Amherst
and Smith Colleges (2006). Dedalus holds a BA in Studio Arts from Hampshire College and
maintains a studio at Sculptors Workshop in Allston, MA.
Kinodance Company is an interdisciplinary artist collaborative founded in Boston in 1999 by
choreographer/dancer Alissa Cardone, filmmaker Alla Kovgan and visual artist Dedalus
Wainwright out of a passion for the kinetic arts, experimentation and a strong belief in the
power of interdisciplinary collaborations. Since 2004, core members include
choreographer/dancer Ingrid Schatz and lighting designer Kathy Couch. Among Kinodance’s
creations are intermedia and expanded cinema stage performances, installations and films.
Critics described Kinodance performance as “stunning”, "mesmeric", “…a daring and
dramatically theatrical experience”, “…a breathtaking synthesis of live and filmed dance”,
“mysterious and vivid, formally sophisticated and painterly…”
Kinodance endeavors merge boundaries between dance, cinema, visual art, and sound,
aspiring to develop a common language of interaction among art media. Choreography of
elements is the term that Kinodance came up with to formally describe their creative process.
In Kinodance performances, each element (dance, cinema, set, sound) is a strong, fully
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html

developed score that compliments the others — sometimes soloing, sometimes partnering,
sometimes driving a tight ensemble.
Kinodance’s projects have been presented nationally and internationally and supported by
NDP/NEFA RDDI Dance Lab, Downstreet Arts/MassMOCA, LEF Contemporary Work Fund,
Summer Stages Dance, Bank of America Celebrity Series, Open Society Institute (Soros
Foundation), Trust for Mutual Understanding, Monaco Dance Forum, World Music/CrashARTS,
Harkness Center Space Grant Project (New York).
In 2008, Kinodance Company was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch”.
Contact: Alla Kovgan, KINODANCE, 88 Winslow Ave., #2, Somerville, MA 02144, USA,
akovgan@kinodance.com, +1 617-571-4742, www.kinodance.org/newlondon.html