'Dance/Screen: Innovative
International Dance Films'
Tues/20, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts
GOING TO THE movies is not as affordable as it used to be.
Neither is eating out. However, if you like to make a meal of small
dishes think tapas or dim sum you can get a movie bargain
Tuesday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. This year's "Dance/Screen:
Innovative International Dance Films," curated by
Charlotte Shoemaker and presented by San Francisco Performances, offers
about as varied a menu as you would want. Not surprisingly, most of
this year's nine films, culled from festivals around the globe, come
from Europe where dance on camera, or dancing cameras, have much more
support than in these parts. The lone U.S. entrant, Laurie McLeod's
"Yes, She Said," is filmed underwater; its subject, a
bride reluctant to commit, is stuck at one end of a pool. "Burnt,"
from Germany, is filmed in an icy, steely office building that
is haunted by its equally ice-cold daytime inhabitants. On the more
cheerful side, "Flock of Flyers," from Canada, follows
a group of pilots who are about to take to the air.
7 p.m., 701 Mission, S.F. $6. (415) 978-ARTS. (Rita Felciano)