FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: 2 Close
(January 2023)
It has been a long road since that time we thought everything was alright and safe. Politics forgetting its public service, pandemic, war, depressed teens, no touching, no smiling, trying to identify people by their eyebrows, isolating, dysfunctional bi-solating, comfy TV watching pants all the time and no live DANCE class. As we learn how to people again and feel normal… everything is still 2 Close. The healing process requires the vulnerability of opening our hearts again.
January 20 - February 5, 2022
«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance
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«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance ☯☯☯
“We think the only way to change the worlds is through ART & we appreciate our audiences more than you know. Thank you for experiencing the DANCE with us, please enjoy this month’s event!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Monumental Gestures
film by Douglas Rosenberg (c) 2022 USA
For this project, I was thinking about the idea of “heroes”, about care-givers and teachers and those who have supported the community in which this work might be displayed. Who gets to be on public view, whose image do we think of when we think about who values, whose life matters? In each performer, we find a corporeal landscape where the smallest gestures become monumental, thus we could say that such gestures become elevated and begin to "speak" in ways not necessarily noticed in our everyday life. We begin to see the intimacy in that which is ordinary or quotidian. We see the humanity of the individual in epic scale, speaking back to other monuments that often diminish those in whose communities they are located.
Douglas Rosenberg - Director
A Body Is
film by Jaime Dezcallar (c) 2021 SPAIN
Antonio José Martínez Palacios was going to be the biggest Spanish musician of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, he was incarcerated and executed without a trial at the age of 33, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Jaime Dezcallar - Director, Producer & Writer
Marco Flores - Dancer
Accumulation
film by Megan Chu (c) 2022 USA
Accumulation follows a new mother as she strives to balance family life while staying engaged with her passion for dance during the pandemic.
Megan Chu - Director & Writer
Heart of Glass
film by Clara Vieira Silveira (c) 2021 BRAZIL
An empty theater is suddenly the stage of a couple's reunion.
Clara Vieira Silveira - Director, Writer & Dancer
Bolívar Alencastro - Cinematographer
Ricardo Teztner - Dancers
Red Line
film by Irishia Hubbard (c) 2021 USA
A The flight or flight response to trauma in bodily form. Red Line examines the resilience of a Black woman in the face of allostatic load. Her reality is multidimensional, and her existence challenges the redlining of her identity.
Irishia Hubbard - Director & Choreographer
Miché Smith - Dancer & Choreographer
Arin Lynn - Lighting Designer
Benjamin Sandberg - Production Consultant
Tay Camille Lynne - Director of Photography
Dylan Romaine - Composer
Tay Camille Lynne - Camera Operator
Virginia Boyles - Camera Operator
Loren Degraaff - Camera Operator
to be near you.
Film by Ali Kenner Brodsky & Jarret Blinkhorn (c) 2021 USA
A to be near you. pushes at the boundaries of time to create a feeling of reconnecting with something, or someone, who is gone.
Based on a live duet between Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jenna Pollack, to be near you. honors the memory of those that we have lost, collapses distance by energizing the spaces between, and demonstrates how people can find connection through physical separation.
Ali Kenner Brodsky - Director, Producer & Dancer
Jarret Blinkhorn - Director
Jenna Pollack - Dancer
Rich Ferri - Director of Photography
MorganEve Swain - Compsoer
Meghan Kinney - Costume
A Dream of Touch When Touch is Gone
Film by Carl Fink (c) 2021 USA
A dream, a vision told through movement of falling into the COVID reality and dreaming of the moment we emerge back to physical touch as an essential need of our society and humanity.
"A Dream . . ." was shot in September 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic when vaccinations seemed distant and performing arts groups were desperately trying to figure out how to get back to work. Carl Flink, artistic director of the Minneapolis based dance company Black Label Movement, approached Dr. Jon Hallberg from the University of Minnesota Medical School and asked if an affordable COVID "bubble," ala the extremely expensive "bubbles" the professional sports leagues were implementing, could be designed to allow for responsible physical contact and removing PPE to create, perform and present new work. Hallberg said he thought there was and designed an affordable "bubble" that allowed Black Label to produce this film without anyone involved contracting the COVID virus.
Flink makes his debut as a filmmaker and director with this film and his other 2021 short film "cage(d)."
Carl Flink - Concept, Choreographer & Director
Crystal Edwards - Producer
Ryan Stopera - Editor
Joey Weaver - Editor
Hannah AlbersKey Cast
Dancers - Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Patrick Jeffrey, Ryan-Olivia Lundy, Sarah McCullough, Rachel Miller, Ashley Pyle, Joe Tennis, Paula Vasquez Alzate, Elliana Vesely & Cheng Xiong
Greg Brosofske - Composer
Rocks
film by Luca Di Bartolo (c) 2018 ITALY
Luca Di Bartolo - Director
Giorgia Damasco - Dancer
Thomas Johansen - Dancer
Francesca Qoya - Musician
Dolores, A Triptych
film by Gina Ann Margillo USA
Dressed in her clothing and using improvised movement based on memories, three dancers channel the complex yet playful spirit of Dolores Eugenia, the filmmaker's mother, in an effort to exorcise demons, celebrate her life force, and process grief. related to her passing
Gina Ann Margillo - Director, Producer & Dancer
Rosie Herrera - Dancer
Niurca Marquez - Dancer
Luis Eligio - Cinematographer
Ricardo Trevino - Editor
Twin Flames
film by Patrick Ogelvie & Alyona Amato (c) 2019 USA
“Digging dipper, past the trees and treasure, twin flames finally melt together somewhere between darkness and light”.
Alyona Amato - Director & Producer Patrick Ogelvie - Director Joel Vanfuller - Photographs
Carrying Samsonite
film by Nathan Balser (c) 2020 USA
We carry burdens: fears, anxieties, regrets, anger, hate, envy, and sorrow. Like heavy luggage, these mental and emotional burdens weigh us down. Most of the time, we need another to help us set them down for a moment.
Nathan Balser - Choreography & Concept
Scott Cook - Producer/Director of Photography
Amanda Hoover - Editing
John Newton - B-Cam Operator/Grip
Jonny Vance - Gaffer/1st AD
Luis Medina - On Set Editor
Dancers - Roman Curiel, Bethany Claunch, Joey Anderson, Maddie Butler, Tynan Hamilton, Benjamin Raymant & Maci Williams
Sea in My Mind
film by Ombline Noyer, Mauricio Vera (c) 2021 FRANCE
Sea… in my mind” is the revival of emotions during the first confinement (in Santiago, Chile) and the calmness found within an inner refuge. Individuals often recur to the use of imagination in order to appease their fears during solitude or despair; this dance video portrays the personal refuge of the performer. A confusion is created in the artist who staggers in between the sea side and her flat, while constantly feeling that she is crazy and living a nightmare. Beyond the fact that this initiative was triggered during the pandemic and social isolation, it is nonetheless clear that the revealed anxiety is the result of a long wait and impossibility to project one’s self into the future.
The liberty obtained in our imagination is strongly linked to our five senses, consequently what the artist chose to explore during her improvisation. She tries to recover the sensations physically encountered within the anxious context of her present and future.
All of the scenes are filmed with a mobile phone in La Baule (France) during the Autumn of 2020. The edition of the video was made by the performer with the collaboration of Mauricio Vera Nuñez.
Ombline Noyer - Director, Writer & Dancer
Mauricio Vera - Director & Producer
Danza Restless - Producer
Niebościan. Freedom lives in a head
film by Jagoda Turlik (c) 2022 POLAND
"Niebościan..." is a short story about actual imprisonment and a mental sense of freedom. Daily routine and the courage to make the decision to escape from it. About the fact that the boundless sky lives in our head. You just have to allow yourself to see them.
Jagoda Turlik - Director, Writer, Costumes, Location & Editor
Jagoda Turlik JaTu Film/JaTu Tańczę - Producer
Julia Domagalska Dancer of Kielecki Teatr Tańca - Dancer
Szymon Pacholec Dancer of Kielecki Teatr Tańca - Dancer
Piotr Werewka - DOP
Ryszard Brożek - DOP
Greg Zgliński - Artistic Supervision
Agnieszka Baranowska - Masks
Joanna Turlik - Costumes
Piotr Werewka - Post-production
Kacper Smoliński - Music
Izabela Turlik - Location
Ryszard Brożek - Location
Second Guessing
film by Thérèse Lynch (c) 2022 UK
Dance video choreographed to reflect the emotional impact of coercive control on the person being controlled.
Thérèse Lynch - Director
Emma Ready - Dancer & Choreographer
Cuddle Weather
film by Alicia Ross USA
This film contemplates the pressure we often feel to find a romantic partner during the winter months. Social implications of "cuddle weather" or "cuffing season" can cause loneliness and a heavy burden.
Alicia Ross - Director
Becca Speechley - Dancer
Sea of Stars
film by Robin Bisio (c) 2022 USA
Moths are night pollinators, navigating by the stars and moon for their favored perfumed flowers. In Sea of Stars, we honor this journey into darkness as Paige Amicon explores a secret world of cultivation. May the unknown bloom in darkened skies.
Robin L. Bisio - Director & Producer
Paige Amicon - Dancer
In Reach
film by Tina Kambour (c) 2021 USA
In Reach, a screendance, explores the yearning for connections to self, others and to the world at large. Filmed in both indoor and outdoor locations, the dancers weave together a narrative of loss, renewal, and compassion.
Tina Kambour - Director
Dancers - Natasha Abu Fadel, Mayu Nagano, Felipe Ramirez, Donnelle Sellers II & Claire Swanson
Josh Bivens - Videographer and Editor
Aspherical
film by Ben Ruesser & Blake Simpson (c) 2022 SWITZERLAND
An experimental dance video that explores the spaces of nature and movement.
Marta Andreitsiv - Dancer
Blake Simpson - Director, Director of Photography & Producer
Ben Ruesser - Director
Lama House - Music
Andrea Wenger - Sound Design
Jannis Newiadomsky - Colorist
Pit Stop
film by Andy & Dionne Noble (c) 2020 USA
Three friends take a pit stop during a car trip and a comical dance ensues.
Andy Noble - Director/Choreographer
Dionne Noble - Director/Choreographer
Danc ers - LaRodney Freeman, Wesley Cordova & Vincent Calleros
Barry Doss - Costume Design
Bryan Ealey - Lighting
Wherever you go, there you are SUBTITLED
film by Nicola Zambelli (c) 2018 ITALY
Gabriel, a dancer who lived many years abroad, conducts a precarious life in his home country, Italy, that has few resources to offer to artists. The movie follows him while working on a new performance about precariousness and immobility, a common feeling among young italians like Gabriel. As the protagonist, blocked in an elevator going to a job interview, Gabriel has to reflects about his life.
Nicola Zambelli - Director
Roberta Bonetto - Writer
Fabio Ferrero - Producer
Gabriel Beddoes - Dancer