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December 11, 2011 Tea Dance Avalon Ballroom Lesson at 1, dancing from 2-5 pm |
Our December tea dance will be a special event: a partial recreation of a dance list from the Denver Dance Club in 1911. We've been finding the waltzes and "deux temps" (two-steps and foxtrots) from that ball, and will present them (along with our regular tea dance tangos, foxtrots, and swing. |
December 14, 2011 Huckleberry Finn Turner Classic Movies 9:15 Eastern Time |
Our new score for the 1920 silent film version of Huckleberry Finn will premiere on the Turner Classic Movies Channel at 9:15 eastern time. Directed by William Desmond Taylor, this version of the film illustrates various episodes from the novel into a charming 84 minute film. |
January 12, 2012 Four Funny Films Bud Werner Library Time and place TBA |
The Bud Werner Library is doing a silent film series. Rodney and Molly Sauer will be playing for "four funny films" to kick the project off. Expect short films by Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Harold Lloyd, and others. |
February 22, 2012 Four Funny Films Courtland Arts Center Time and Price TBA |
Our first performance in Courtland Kansas will include screenings of four silent film comedies, including the world premiere of the restored Fireman Save My Child, an animated film preserved by Mike Johnson in Courtland Kansas and restored by the Niles Film Museum in California. |
February 23, 2012 Sunrise Lawrence Arts Center Time and Price TBA |
One of the most beautiful films of all time, in Sunrise George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor make a fantastic trip to the city to rebuild their destroyed marriage. Combining the artistic approach of German Expressionism with the romance and comedy of Hollywood, Sunrise won a special Academy Award for most artistic production. |
February 24-25, 2012 TBA Kansas Silent Film Festival Free |
We'll be presenting two films at the Kansas Silent Film Festival this year. Way Down East will be a premiere of our live score to D.W. Griffith's masterful melodrama, in which Lillian Gish is left trying to put her life together after being seduced by a scoundrel, and ends up caught on ice floes drifting down a frozen river. |
February 26, 2012 Buster Keaton in Augusta Theater |
Tough riverboat captain Steamboat Bill (Ernest Torrance) meets his long-lost son, who turns out to be college dandy Buster Keaton. Buster is a disappointment until a hurricane gives him a chance to prove his mettle. Wonderful comedy set pieces and an amazing stunt-filled finale make this a wildly entertaining comedy. Don't pass up a chance to see this show in a beautiful vintage movie theater. |
February 27, 2012 Buster Keaton in Concordia Community College |
Tough riverboat captain Steamboat Bill (Ernest Torrance) meets his long-lost son, who turns out to be college dandy Buster Keaton. Buster is a disappointment until a hurricane gives him a chance to prove his mettle. Wonderful comedy set pieces and an amazing stunt-filled finale make this a wildly entertaining comedy. |
March 11, 2012 Tea Dance Avalon Ballroom Lesson at 1, dancing from 2-5 pm |
From Tchaikowsky to the Charleston, come tango, two-step, waltz, and foxtrot to the sounds of the Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra, with singer Susan Rogers. Live music, an excellent dance floor, a free dance lesson, and exquisite refreshments. |
March 17, 2012 Rodney Sauer accompanies Up in Mabel's Room Louisville Arts Center |
Rodney Sauer on solo piano will accompany two comedy films: the short Charley Chase film Crazy Like a Fox, followed by the feature Up in Mabel's Room. In this adaptation of a stage farce, the original Harrison Ford (the silent film star) is courting the lovely Phyllis Haver. But his first wife, who divorced him in Paris and has since changed her mind, wants to get him back, and she's armed with some incriminating lingerie! |
March 31, 2012 Sunrise Bud Warner Memorial Library 6:30 p.m. Free |
One of the most beautiful films of all time, in Sunrise George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor make a fantastic trip to the city to rebuild their destroyed marriage. Combining the artistic approach of German Expressionism with the romance and comedy of Hollywood, Sunrise won a special Academy Award for most artistic production, and is on most critic's lists of the best films of all time. |
May 13, 2012 Tea Dance Avalon Ballroom Lesson at 1, dancing from 2-5 pm |
From Tchaikowsky to the Charleston, come tango, two-step, waltz, and foxtrot to the sounds of the Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra, with singer Susan Rogers. Live music, an excellent dance floor, a free dance lesson, and exquisite refreshments. |