KCRW & The Fowler Museum Present SOUNDSUITS AFTER DARK
Fowler Museum at UCLA
May 22, 2010

Cari Ann danced with the UCLA Fowler Museum Nick Cave Soundsuits group directed and choreographed by Rachael Lincoln. Here's some photos from the KCRW event Soundsuits After Dark.

Choreographing since 1992 for dance, theater, stage and film . . .

Choreography for Film

Choreography for Stage


Concert Stage

Musical Theater

Theater

Artistic Director of Dance Company, Bitch Co.
Artistic Director, Choreographer and Costume Design
1995-2001

Bitch Co.: A progressive dance-theater company intent on exploring femininity through an abstract multi-influenced body language whom collaboratively construct performances based on the female perspective for the world's public.

Performed in Los Angeles & Las Vegas at venues such as Bergamot Station, Highways, The Brewery, The Henry Huang Theater, Cirque Du Soliel events (Santa Monica & Las Vegas), Cannibal Flower, The White Rabbit, UCLA, Track 16, The Democratic Convention Los Angeles, & The Hatch.

Click to Watch Bitch Co. Reel

*Complete list of works and performances by Bitch Co. available upon request.

Courses

Social Media, WAC 78
Summer 2011
World Arts & Cultures Department

Dance for Camera, WAC 180
Spring 2011
World Arts & Cultures Department

Beginning Tap Dance, WAC 9
UCLA, Summer Session 2009
World Arts & Cultures Department

Introduction to Video Production-Dance for Camera, WAC 180
Spring 2009
World Arts & Cultures Department

Advanced Projects in Video: Dance for Camera
Installation & Experimental Documentary
Winter 2008, Spring 2009
World Arts & Cultures Department

Introduction to Video Production-Post Production as Choreography, WAC 180
Winter 2009
World Arts & Cultures Department

Classes in DANCE

Cari Ann is currently teaching the following dance classes weekly in Topanga Canyon...

Traditional West African & Caribbean Dance Practice
Thursday 8-9:30pm

Dancers learn traditional dances and drum rhythms from Guinea, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Haiti and St. Croix. All levels, teens and adults welcome. Featuring Master Drummer Henrik Jakobsson with additional drummers.

$20 Walk-in, Special: $100 for seven classes OR $65 for four classes (cash or check)

Yoga Desa
120 North Topanga Canyon Blvd
Pine tree Circle Center
www.yogadesa.com

Rhythm Tap (Teen/Adult)
Monday 5:30-7pm

This course introduces beginning tap technique and styles (including rhythm tap and Broadway tap), information about the cultural and historical origins of tap, and current trends and applications of tap in concert dance and musical theater. The students will examine a range of contemporary tap dance techniques found in films featuring tap dance and tap videos focusing specifically on rhythm, combinations and styling. Guest musicians will accompany the class and combinations taught will include the Shim Sham.

8 class session Feb 6-March 26

$20 Walk-in, Special: $100 for seven classes OR $65 for four classes (cash or check)

Ribbit Tree & Plant
301 Old Topanga Cnyn
Topanga, CA 90290
www.ribbittreeandplant.com

Lectures and Classes

2010   One Day on Earth, Educational Toolkits

Lecturer
Live Online Event with Classroom 2.0

2009   The Art of the Edit: Cutting for the Dancing Camera, Editorial Strategies and Post Production as Choreography

Lecturer for the Chew on this Series, World Arts & Cultures Dept
UCLA

2008   Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras, Moving Minds: A History of Dance Film

Guest Lecturer for Arts Enlightenment , Professor Judy Mitoma
UCLA May

2008   Post Production As Choreography

Guest Lecturer for Dance For Camera, Professor Anna B. Scott
UC Riverside

2007   Dance for Camera, Gorilla Style

Guest Lecturer for Chi Pei Gan
University of Malaysia & ASWARA University of Malaysia

First offerings at the DocuWeeks documentary showcase
Los Angeles Times
August 2011

Over the next three weeks, 17 feature and seven documentary shorts will qualify for Academy Award consideration via the International Documentary Assn.'s 15th annual DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary Showcase. . . .

Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/08/first-week-documentary-films-movies-docuweeks-showcase-los-angeles.html

Update on short film SAND, which screened at AFF 2010
Austin Film Festival blog
August 2011

SAND is screening as part of Docuweeks in Los Angeles Aug 19-25, which qualifies it for Academy Award Nomination!

Read more at http://austinfilmfestival.blogspot.com/2011/08/update-on-short-film-sand-which.html

Short films showcased at DocuWeeks Film Festival Los Angeles
Examiner
August 2011

In show biz vernacular the term, "shorts" is a reference to a short film as opposed a feature length one. In the case of the 15th Annual DocuWeeks Los Angeles Film Festival, there are several short films being presented for your consideration and the underlying theme . . .

Read more at http://www.examiner.com/film-institute-in-los-angeles/short-films-showcased-at-docuweeks-film-festival-los-angeles-review

Cari Ann Shim Sham*'s Documentary About Tap-Dancing on Sand
LA Weekly Blogs
August 2011

That's L.A. tap dancer Kenji Igus, on the right, watching as his father, Darrow, releases a fistful of sand. Darrow is readying the stage for a "sand dance," . . .

Read more at http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/08/carrie_ann_shim_shams_sand_doc.php

84th Oscar Documentary Short Updates (2011-2012 Awards Season) (7/13/11)
Never Too Early Movie Predictions
July 2011

Here are today's rankings for the 84th Oscar Documentary Short race, with previous ranking shown in parenthesis after each entry.

Read more at http://nevertooearlymoviepredictions.blogspot.com/2011/07/84th-oscar-documentary-short-updates.html

Cannes 2011 - Short Film Corner Preview
IndieWIRE
July 2011

It would be fair to say that you could easily spend the whole duration of 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Short Film Corner.

Read more at http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/archives/cannes_2011_-_short_film_corner_preview/

DocuWeeks will give 17 documentaries, 7 shorts a shot at Oscar
Los Angeles Times
July 2011

A batch of documentaries that have yet to secure theatrical distribution deals will be coming to a screen near you soon -- and will have the chance to score the ultimate filmmaking accolade: an Oscar.

Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/07/docuweeks-theatrical-run-oscar-qualifying.html

FILM SAND TO HIT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL!
International Tap Association
May 2011

and will screen as a Finalist on Wednesday, May 18th at 10:30 - 12:30 in the American Pavilion Cannes Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. . . .

Read more at https://www.tapdance.org/index.php?pid=178

SAND HEADS TO CANNES
Dance Camera West
May 2011

Local Los Angeles artist and filmmaker Cari Ann Shim Sham's short film SAND is going to Cannes! SAND was screened at Dance Camera West?s Dance Media Film Festival last year . . .

Read more at http://www.dancecamerawest.org/blog/2011/05/sand-heads-to-cannes/

OUR OWN CARI ANN SHIM SHAM* GOES TO CANNES
Topanga Film Festival
May 2011

Dance is transformative, it has the ability to change lives through bonds that are not easily altered, dance has heart. The short documentary Sand, recently selected as a Finalist in the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at Cannes, tells the story . . .

Read more at http://www.topangafilmfestival.com/our-own-cari-ann-shim-sham-goes-to-cannes?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TopangaFilmFestival+%28Topanga+Film+Festival%29&utm_content=Twitter

DANCE ARTS BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS: SAND to screen at Cannes
Afrologica
May 2011

Los Angeles screen dance and dance filmmakers should be absolutely beside themselves with joy at the announcement that Cari Ann Shim Sham* is headed to Cannes. Her moving short film, SAND, has been invited to screen in The American Pavillion on May 18th, 10:30 AM. What does it take to get into the final 16 at the Pavilion?

Read more at http://afrological.com/dance-arts-breaking-international-news-sand-t

Portrait of a Dinner Guest: Cari Ann Shim Sham*, One Day On Earth
Idea Project
February 2011

Cari Ann Shim Sham* serves as the coordinator and lead writer of the Educational Tool Kits for One Day On Earth. Over 400,000 students received this free kit which outlines methods for capturing images and editing film. The kits were created to . . .

Read more at http://la-ip.com/portrait-of-a-dinner-guest-cari-ann-shim-sham

deFineArtsLA Exclusive: So You Think You Can Dance With Elephants?
Fine Arts LA
May 2010

When I heard about choreographer Lionel Popkin's There's an Elephant in This Dance happening at the REDCAT this past weekend, complete with interpretive dance and elephant costumes, my imagination went wild. Dancing elephants! Sign me up!

Read more at http://www.fineartsla.com/tag/cari-ann-shim-sham

Dance Review: Lionel Popkin's 'There is An Elephant in This Dance' at REDCAT
Los Angeles Times
May 2010

Drunks allegedly see pink ones. The white ones of the species are hard to unload. Then there's the mascot of the Republican Party. We're talking elephants, those lovable beasts with steel-trap memories. . . .

Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/05/dance-review-lionel-popkin-at-redcat.html

Bringing Sand to Light
February 2010

Cari Ann Shim Sham started an advanced youth tap group called the Tappa Tappa Tappas while chair of the Dance Dept. at the Culver City Academy of Visual & Performing Arts. In 2003, the academy and the group drew the attention of a young man by the name of Kenji Igus who's father "played the hambone and could sand dance" as she would later find out . . .

Read more at https://www.tapdance.org/index.php?pid=311

Artist's Bio

Cari Ann Shim Sham* is an award winning filmmaker noted for her surreal visual style and precise manipulation of the edit. Her films screen internationally and she has presented live work at the Joyce Soho, & Danspace in NYC, Highways Space, Redcat, The Brewery, The Henry Huang Theater and Bergamot Station in Los Angeles. Her recent partners in collaboration include David Rousseve, Victoria Marks, Margarett Williams, Lionel Popkin, Rachael Lincoln, Kyle Ruddick, Jia Wu, John Bishop and Lynn Dally. She works in the mediums of Experimental Short Film, Installation, Documentary film and Dance for Camera. She recently was published in the International Journal of Screendance, and authored a ten lesson educational toolkit for video and photography for the worldwide participation of students in a multi-platform participatory media project & documentary film, One Day on Earth. EMPAC Dance Movies Commission short-listed her in 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007 grant cycles and she was the recipient of the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship in 2007. She is a member of the screening committee for Dance Camera West and for the Topanga Film Festival and curated a Dance for Camera program for Topanga in 2010. Having taught workshops in Dance for Camera in Malaysia Java, and in Los Angeles and guest lecturing on Dance for Camera at UCLA and UC Riverside in 2008, She is currently working in post with David Rousseve on a Dance for Camera film that she shot in Java, Indonesia in December of 2010.

Amongst Cari Ann's awards are Best Director from the First Glance Film Festival and Best Mini Doc from the St. Louis International Film Festival, as well as Best Short Documentary from the Oxford Film Festival and a Special Mention Award from Dance Camera West for her newest film SAND which received Official Selection by the Austin Film Festival in 2010 and the Tallahassee Film Festival in 2011. She's also earned a Silver Create award for Production/Post Production for Are you for real?, the Jumping Frames 2008 Dance Video Award for Delicious Tree, two Telly Awards for My Big Break, and a Jury Shorts Award from Cinedans for Are you for real?. In addition, she was a finalist at Jumping Frames for Are you for real? and for SAND.

Cari Ann Shim Sham* served as the chair of the Dance Department at The Culver City Academy of Visual & Performing Arts from 2000-2007 and as Artistic Director of Bitch Co. from 1995-2001; an all female dance theater company, performing feminist based protest art extensively throughout the underground Los Angeles Art Gallery and Rave scene. She has a BA and MFA in Choreography from the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department. She has trained with and performed for Victoria Marks and David Rousseve and studied film and video with John Bishop, Roberta Shaw and Thierry DeMey.

From time to time, Miss Shim Sham is called upon to put pen to paper, showing how even her words dance off the page. Click HERE to see a full list of her published works.