SUMMON: Dance Film

Grey Gardens is a haven where women come to feel free and to feel safe. Take a load off. Commune. Exhale. Laugh. Be seen. Be weird. Absorb love. Armed with the knowledge that they can always return here. This space was carved for them.

Director: Jamila Glass
Premiere Date: 2021
Run Time: 4 minutes

Info

SUMMON is written, directed, and edited by filmmaker & LACDC’s artistic director Jamila Glass, choreographed by former artistic director Genevieve Carson, captured by prolific cinematographer Nathan Kim, scored by Oscar & Emmy award-winning and Grammy-nominated Kris Bowers, and features a cast of phenomenal women from LACDC and the LA dance community.

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Credits

Dancers:
Hyosun Choi, Kate Coleman, Shauna Davis, Nicole Hagen, Kenzie McClure, Drea Sobke, Carissa Songhorian, Tiffany Sweat, Gigi Todisco, & Angel Tyson

Choreography: Genevieve Carson

Collaborators:
Director, Writer, Editor: Jamila Glass
Composer: Kris Bowers
Cinematographer: Nathan Kim
Production Designers: Genevieve Carson & Jamila Glass

Costume Designer: Sami Martin Sarmiento
Makeup: Josiah Cracraft
Hair: Lisa-Marie Powell

1st AC: Zed Dally
2nd AC: Ashley Langley
Key Set Costumer: Yuki Nishida
Set Costumer: Sami Martin Sarmiento
Still Photographer: Rob Amjärv

Filmed in 2019 at Stomping Ground L.A.

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Trailer | SUMMON | L.A. Contemporary Dance

"After watching SUMMON several times, however, I could not shake the notion that LACDC’s “Gray Gardens” was/is a mansion that cannot be avoided. The women inside compel one to pause and look inside. And, although you sense that you should not, you know that there is no choice but to enter. I highly recommend that you visit this magical place." --Jeff Slayton, L.A. Dance Chronicle

"Along with Carson’s very musical choreography, Glass’s direction, Kim’s cinematography and Bowers’ exciting score, is the fact that this mystery, aloofness, and sisterhood that draws one into the film’s environment. I felt, however, that once inside one was there for eternity. The house even has a woman who repeatedly walks past in the background like a ghostly spirit." --Jeff Slayton, L.A. Dance Chronicle