• SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist
  • SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Image: courtesy of the artist
  • SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist
  • SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books / Image: courtesy of the artist
  • SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist
  • SCREENINGCinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes / Image: courtesy of the artist

Cinematic Chimera

Cinematic Chimera presents works that strive for a radical synthesis of artistic genres, reviving the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. United by their integration of theater, dance, music, architecture, literature, and visual art, these films also realize the Gesamtkustwerk’s technological imperative by making use of advanced cinematic techniques.

Cinematic Chimera: Prospero’s Books

Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:30 PM | Studio 1 - Goodman

Dance, opera, and mime are interwoven throughout Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway’s pioneering and celebrated cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:30 PM | Theater

Based on a fairy tale about a young girl caught in an endless dance by a pair of magical shoes, the groundbreaking classic film The Red Shoes follows a ballerina’s struggle with dueling allegiances to love and career.


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