“Carmen & Geoffrey” – Screening
In conjunction with the exhibit, “Geoffrey & Carmen: A Memoir in Four Movements,” we present a special screening of “Carmen & Geoffrey.” Carmen DeLavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen was the first to achieve notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with the Lester Horton Dance Theater and Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, an elemental force on stage who would find fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor, soda spokesman, and theater director, met Carmen during a production of Truman Capote’s “House of Flowers” in 1954, and proposed to her on sight. They married a year later and have been together ever since.
Filmed over a period of three years in New York, Texas, Trinidad and Paris, “Carmen & Geoffrey” features candid interviews and riveting archival dance footage. Performances of their work with Alvin Ailey, Herbert Ross, Lester Horton, Joe Layton, Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker, as well as their choreography work and Holder’s stunning achievements in painting and costume design demonstrate the virtually uninterrupted creativity of these icons of dance.
This is a FREE event. For more information or to RSVP, call 773-947-0600 ext. 290.
Sponsors
The Chicago Community Trust