When wundergeezer Mitchell Rose presents The Usually Funny Dance-Films of Mitchell Rose, it'll be more than just a frolic through the comic short dance-films spanning the oeuvre of the artiste. The screening is the convergence of the two lives of Mitchell Rose—a former choreographer, now a filmmaker whose offbeat short films have won 100+ awards. The films are manically funny, often poignant, and always surprising. First up in the program's seven shorts is Deere John. A man and a 22-ton John Deere excavator dance a duet of discovery, fulfillment, and the problems that any diesel-based relationship will face. Another selection is the viral short Learn to Speak Body. With over 3 million views online, it's a language instructional video… but for body language.

The New York Times proclaims "Mr. Rose is a rare and wonderful talent."

The Washington Post declares "In the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati—funny and sad and more than the sum of both."

Mitchell is professor of dance-film and on Saturday afternoon he will give a talk entitled "The Film is the Dance." For people who've spent most of their lives envisioning dance on stage, it's natural to think of dance-film as beautifully recorded choreography. But Dance-film is film and it requires film thinking.