Experimental Slapstick Screendance Comedy
Color 4K Digital Video, 15 minutes, 2024
SYNOPSIS
Beauty is pain - at least in the world of Dance. WHAT WENT DOWN takes a humorous and irreverent approach to unpacking ideas of suffering in pursuit of physical virtuosity.
A collaboration between choreographer Peter Carpenter and filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth, WHAT WENT DOWN features a group of mid-career dancers who navigate the tense relationship between their chronically injured bodies and the barked orders of an uncompromising film director. Exposing the strenuous labor of the cinematic process both in front of and behind the camera, WHAT WENT DOWN devolves from constant action to profound inaction… All for you!
Some scenes in WHAT WENT DOWN were adapted from Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times #12: Dominant Collapse (2014), written and choreographed by Peter Carpenter in collaboration with the performers. WHAT WENT DOWN was supported through funding by the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, as well as a 3Arts Projects crowdfunding campaign through the wonderful 3Arts Organization in Chicago. https://www.3arts.org
THANK YOU to all our generous donors!
CREDITS
Director / Producer / Screenplay
Producer / Screenplay
Performers and Artistic Collaborators
Editor
Choreography
Music
Sound Mix and Mastering
Color Correction / Title Graphics
Line Producer / 1st Assistant Director
Danièle Wilmouth
Peter Carpenter
Peter Carpenter
Margi Cole
Lisa Gonzales
Matthew McMunn
Danièle Wilmouth
Peter Carpenter,
In Collaboration with the Performers
Nick Takenobu Ogawa
Lou Mallozzi
Yunju You
Rachel Rozycki
FIRST UNIT CREW
Production Coordinator / 2nd Assistant Director
Director of Photography
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
BTS Photo / Videographer / Digital Imaging Technician
Gaffer
Key Grip
Grips
Location Sound Mixer
1st Boom Operator
2nd Boom Operator
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Hair / Makeup
Catering / Craft Services
Key Production Assistant
Production Assistants
Ellie Hall
Michael Weldon
Lucinda Harstrick
Yuri Choe
Calla Flanagan
Joseph Kosty
Shawna Gish
Nolan Flavin
Ji Jang
Luciana Salinas
Blake Zeyu Wang
Aliya Haq
Jackie Baker
Looloo Xiao
Kayla Cook
Jeff Hancock
Samantha Tan
Maddy Graefen
PJ Zaiac
Mohamed Doumbia
Mickey Gral
SECOND UNIT CREW
Director of Photography
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Grips
Location Sound Mixers
Boom
Danièle Wilmouth
Sunny Xinyi Mo
Ross Chavez
Erika Janasz
Mansour Altwaijri
Gabe Fries
Yulin Chen
Chris Krogh
Ike Peters
DANCER BIOS
Peter Carpenter
Peter Carpenter has been active as a choreographer since 1992, and during that time he has honed a distinctive approach to blending complex dance vocabularies with politically charged text and meta-theatrical conventions. He has received robust support for the creation of new works in the form of commissions by Lucky Plush Productions (Chicago), The Dance Distribution Project (Memphis), The Ashland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Robin Lakes / ROUGHDANCE (Chicago), Project | Motion (Memphis) and Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre (Chicago).
Grants to create new work include the Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, the Chicago DanceMakers Forum Lab Artist Grant, Chicago Artists Assistance Program Grant and DCASE Individual Artist Grant. Honors include a Joseph Jefferson Citation, a Ruth Page Award and two nominations for the Alpert Award in Dance.
Carpenter's work as a choreographer for theatre include engagements with Steppenwolf Arts Exchange, Goodman Theatre, Strawdog Theatre Company, National Pastime Theatre, Roadworks, 29th Street Repertory and Street Signs Center for Literature and Performance. He choreographed and co-produced the 2012 short film Fanfare for Marching Band (Danièle Wilmouth, director) with the band Mucca Pazza, which enjoyed international screenings. He is the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin where he holds the Z. T. Scott Family Chair in Drama.
Margi Cole
Margi Cole founder and Artistic Director of The Dance COLEctive, received a BA in dance from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught for several educational and professional organizations nationally and internationally and performed with many well-known choreographers and companies. In 2011, Cole participated in the Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project. Margi has received two Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships, a 2005 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, three Individual Artist Program Creative Project Grants from Chicago’s DCASE, an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and, most recently, a 2018 Art Omi Dance Residency. Active in the Chicago dance community for over 30 years, she has served as a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Consortium Member, on grant panels, in public forums and on the board of See Chicago Dance. Cole was on faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where she has served as a Lecturer and Associate Chair and as the Program Manager of the Dance Center Presenting Series. Currently she is a dance educator at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham.
Lisa Gonzales
Lisa Gonzales is a choreographer, improviser, performer and teacher. She has been described as a performer of “stunning power and nuance” by the New York Times, and has shown her work nationally and internationally in diverse spaces such as: DTW in New York; The Dance Center of Columbia College and Links Hall in Chicago; Taipei, Taiwan; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; and Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia. She is co-founder of The Architects and The Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation. Gonzales is an Associate Professor and Acting Chair of Dance at Columbia College Chicago.
Matthew McMunn
An active contributor to the Chicago dance scene since 2010. Matthew McMunn has danced for a number of companies and independent choreographers. He was a company member of The Seldoms from 2015-2019 where he performed in national tours and originated and performed roles in the evening length-works Rock Citizen, The Making, and The Fifth. Matthew has also performed with Peter Carpenter, The Dance COLEctive, Kate Corby and Dancers, Winifred Haun, The Humans, Kristina Isabelle, Lucky Plush, Speak Productions, and Synapse Arts. Matthew’s choreography has been presented by Links Hall, the BiPeds, Core Project, Durham Independent Dance Artists, The Leopold Group, Dance Chance Redux, Blunt Objects Theatre, Red Tape Theatre, and Fused Muse Ensemble. Matthew’s dance training has been shaped by his undergraduate experience at Columbia College where he received a B.A. in Cultural Studies as well as extended study with Joel Hall, and the Ailey School; he has supplemented this training with workshops and masterclasses with Simone Forti, Joe Goode, and Ray Chung. In addition to dance Matthew has worked as the Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for an educational community bike shop and he continues to volunteer for his local shop and advocate for transportation justice.
SCREENINGS
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“OMG - I fucking LOVE THIS film..."
"I laughed so hard. WHAT WENT DOWN is gritty and playful and makes me think deeply about the body and aging (my own, of course) and what it takes to keep going. Raw, poetic, and seriously funny.”
- Megan Alrutz PhD
Dramaturg & Associate Chair
Department of Theater and Dance, University of Texas at Austin
Photos by Calla Flanagan │ Webpage Design by Yunju You
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