DOWN FOR THE COUNT
Concept, Direction: Erika Randall
Producer: Erika Randall
Editor and Cinematographer: Daniel Beahm
Performance and choreography: Teena Marie Custer
Sound Score: Andy Hasenpflug
Costumes: Markas Henry
Riffing off of a 1970s boxer film, “Down for the Count” features B-girl Teena Marie and her incredible range of Hip-hop styles while serving as an examination of gender and gender queering across different genres of street/social dance.
· Screened as part of the evening-length Hip Hop dance theatre piece, “My Good Side,” Guignol Theatre, University of Kentucky, KY, Sept. 7th, 2019
· Official Selection of the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema “Pop Up Happy Hour Cinema,” San Antonio Contemporary Arts Week, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, TX, March 14th and 28th, 2018
· Screened as part of the evening-length Hip Hop dance theatre piece, “My Good Side,” Charlotte Irey Theatre, Boulder, CO, 2016
· Official selection of the Tenth Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema “Best of Tour,” Missoula, MT, Roxy Theatre, December 5, 2015
· Official Selection of the Tenth Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, at the Boe, Boulder, CO, November 22, 2015
· Official selection of the Chicago Dance Cinema Festival, Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 2015
· Official Selection of the Tenth Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Atlas, Boulder, CO, September 25, 2015
· Premiered as part of the evening-length Hip Hop dance theatre piece, “My Good Side, “ The New Hazlett Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, June11, 2015