
October 13th, 2015, 8PM at Dallas City Performance Hall
2520 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 (map it)
Main Event at 8:00 PM
At this world-premiere event, experience Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece Metropolis on opening night of the Dallas Chamber Symphony’s 2015/16 season and VideoFest 28. The classic film will be screened as the orchestra performs a new score by Brian Satterwhite. This production boasts original choreography by Christopher Dolder of Southern Methodist University’s Division of Dance, and the event promises to be a stunning multi-dimensional, multi-media experience, unlike anything you have ever seen before. This screening features the Moroder version of the film released in 1984. Metropolis is suitable for most audiences. Parental guidance is suggested (PG).
Conductor, Richard McKay
Composer, Brian Satterwhite
Bart Weiss, Video Association Artistic Director
Choreography, Christopher Dolder
Costume Design, Eugenia P. Stallings
Lighting Design, Steve Woods
Set Design, Christopher Dolder, JD Margetts
Video Design, Christopher Dolder
Dancers, Kyla Cakarnis, Tong Yuan Douville, Eric Emerson, Aaron D’Eramo, Takia Hopson, Lydia Krull, Avery Lewis, Sara Magalio, Gabrielle Martin, Cansler McGhee, Roy Schoppe, Haley Smith, Quinton Tompkins, Haley Tripp
After Party Around 9:30 PM
Ticket holders can meet the performers over complimentary appetizers at Proof + Pantry, just across the street, immediately following the event. Open seating will be available, inside the restaurant and outside on the patio.
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Reserved Seating: $19-120
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Brian Satterwhite is a professional film composer based in Austin, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Music with dual majors in Film Scoring and Composition from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian’s music has been featured in over one hundred and thirty short and feature films including The Lone Ranger (2013), Sushi: The Global Catch (2012), Switch (2012), Man On A Mission (2012), Artois The Goat (2009), Quarter to Noon (2008), The Children’s War (2008), Cowboy Smoke (2008), Mr. Hell (2006), and the award-winning IMAX™ film Ride Around The World (2006). Brian’s many accolades include twelve gold medals and four silver medals from the Park City Film Music Festival.
Brian has composed a handful of scores for silent films performed by the Dallas Chamber Symphony including The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari (1920), the Buster Keaton short film The Scarecrow (1920), and the Harold Lloyd feature A Sailor-Made Man (1921) which was a finalist for a Jerry Goldsmith Award in 2013.
In addition to composing, Brian is on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches a course on film music for the Radio-Television-Film Department. He’s also the producer and host of the film music radio program “Film Score Focus” on 89.5 KMFA in Austin, and is a highly regarded film music journalist who writes for several popular web sites and pens soundtrack album linter notes for several major labels.
Christopher Dolder received an undergraduate degree in Dramatic Art and Dance from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from Mills College with an emphasis in dance kinesiology. A former soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company, he has spent the last twenty years on a multi-disciplinary journey that has taken him to projects in Theater, Dance, Music, Videography, Kinesiology, “Green” Architecture, and Agrarian Land Rehabilitation. Mr. Dolder is an associate professor of dance at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University where he is currently designing a 3D interactive software application for teaching dance kinesiology as well as developing a new form of physical data capture. Christopher also conducts research in contemporary dance cultures. He is currently in the final editing stage of his documentary The Ecstatic Dance of Burning Man: Permission to Transcend, a six-year research project filmed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, chronicling the emergence and evolution of dance sub-cultures throughout the history of the Burning Man festival.