Followed by a Q&A with Alla Kovgan
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Theater Studies, and Film Studies.
About Alla Kovgan
Born in Moscow in 1973, Alla Kovgan has been sharing her time between Russia and the US since 1996 making films, installations, and stage intermedia performances in collaboration with artists from different disciplines as well as teaching and curating dance film and avant-garde cinema around the world.
Her breakthrough film NORA (36’, 2008), co-directed with David Hinton and based on true stories of a Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire, received 30 awards in every kind of genre (fiction, documentary, video art). After being broadcast on ARTE, PBS, TV3 (Spain), NRK (Norway) and SVT (Sweden) and presented at over 200 festivals and venues including MOMA, LOUVRE and TATE MODERN, it was selected to represent the US at INPUT 2011.
Within the last five years, Alla co-directed, wrote and edited two documentary-features an Emmy-nominated TRACES OF THE TRADE (2008) and MOVEMENT REVOLUTION AFRICA (2007). She also edited MY PERESTROIKA, which premiered at Sundance in 2010.
Since 1999, Alla has been a member of the KINODANCE Company, an interdisciplinary artist collaborative, who was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” in 2008 and whose work is described by critics as “…a breathtaking synthesis of live and filmed dance”.
Since 2000, Alla curates St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival KINODANCE in Russia and co-curates Balagan Film Series in Boston.
She is a recipient of many grants and awards including a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2012), a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2009) and Brother Thomas Fellowship (2009) for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity.