FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Always a DANCER
(November 2022)
Once a DANCER, Always a DANCER… from first steps to dying breaths, life is in all the nano-seconds in between.
November 18 - December 4, 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
Cold Chain
film by Ninni Perko & Juha Ilmari Laine (c) 2020 FINLAND
Cold Chain dives into the families' silenced stories, bringing our pre-mothers means of survival to this day. The performers are from 25 to 90 years old women. Ninni Perko - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer Juha Ilmari Laine - Director, Writer & Producer Marjo Kuusela - Dancer Krista-Julia Arppo - Dancer
And I Continue - A Conversation about Dancing and Aging
film by Kate Monson & Scott Cook (c) 2018 USA
In a profession that has historically largely ignored the role that aging plays in a highly physical profession our hope is to start a dialogue around the role of aging and ageism in dance.
Kate Monson - Director & Producer
Scott Cook - Director
Karen Jensen - Producer
Gigi Arrington - Dancer
Pam Musil - Dancer
Angie Banchero Kelleher - Dancer
Turbulence - Pandemic Dance No. 4
film by Richard Daniels (c) 2021 USA
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.” ― Victor Hugo
Richard Daniels - Director, Producer & Dancer
Body is Home
film by Heidi Duckler (c) 2020 USA
Body is Home is set in Lawrence Halprin's Portland Open Space Sequence, the film celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Keller Fountain, formerly the Forecourt Fountain, and honors the 100th birthday of the living choreographer Anna Halprin. The Keller Fountain opened in 1970, only days after protests just a few blocks away resulted in the hospitalizations of 34 people. The new park immediately became a celebration of the Portland community and the power of public space. As the COVID-19 global pandemic and protests for racial justice roil Portland today, Body Is Home honors the present moment in a setting that remains unique and powerful after 50 crucial years of Portland history. Lawrence Halprin said it best when he noted, “Please try to remember we’re all in this together.” His vision began with open spaces that would be for everyone. Heidi Duckler - Director Dancers - Kya Bliss, Dar Vejon Jones, Conrad Kaczor, Carla Mann, Javon Mngrezzo, Kiel Moton & Himerria Wortham Nicolas Savignano - Camera and Editing Himerria Wortham - Associate Artistic Director Sarah Bell Reid - Music Snezana Petrovic - Costumes
a quiet con•triv•ance
film by Jennifer Scully-Thurston (c) 2022 USA
A parable, within a coming of age, within the telling of the tale, "a quiet con•triv•ance" is a dance depiction of what the female identified condition is like from the inside. From young to wise, abled to differently abled, without offspring into empty nest.\ Jennifer Scully-Thurston - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer Olivia Griego Martin - Producer Dancers - Rachel Lee, Suzi landis, Tiana Suttin, Katherine Quinn, Jenni Finklestein, Hanna Wubbenhorst & Autumn Mist Belk
SWAHA
Film by Mary Trunk (c) 2020 USA
A woman, a ghost recalls the span of her life in microcosm. The room of the three vertical shapes, the table-cloth of life being suddenly removed, and the day-room with the luminous outlooking window as she shines beside it. One by one, from left to right, beginning to end, the frames vanish like blinkered stars.
Mary Trunk - Director
Leslie Swaha - Dancer
sodden ground
Film by Dale Andree & Thryn Saxon (c) 2020 USA
“sodden ground” was created from the mud, the water, the driftwood that is the landscape of this particular place. Like any place, like any person we are the sum of many parts, randomly organized to create the complex harmony of life. Dale Andree - Director & Dancer
Thryn Saxon - Director & Dancer
SALTARE VITAM
film by Fanfy Francoise Garcia, Rachel Guénon (c) 2022 FRANCE
At a time when climatic upheavals are no longer to be feared but in progress, how can we inhabit space differently? Can we think differently about our relationship to what surrounds us? We believe that art is essential to open new spaces of thought, experimentation, imagination and has a key role to play in this sense. The staging and space of these meetings will be crossed by meetings of bodies between them, in a sensitive energy of listening, as many possibilities - of hope, love, mutual aid, co-existence . Fanfy Francoise Garcia - Director Rachel Guénon - Director
A Visitor's Intimacy of the Now
film by Mariah Malony (c) 2021 USA
As the pandemic began to shutter people in their homes, Maloney found herself dancing alone in her living room with the camera as witness. Months later, she located her choreographic process outdoors on the original indigenous lands of the Ais tribe - today these lands are known as Melbourne Beach, Maritime Hammock Sanctuary and the Indian River. Working with natural light, the environment and landscape, in collaboration with composer JoAnne Maffia, Mariah created, A Visitor’s Intimacy of the Now a part of the Documentary Film: ‘The Making of’ Hammer & Rain: Reflections through Time. A Visitor’s Intimacy of the Now explores improvisation in response to the land, in dialogue with choreographic structure, unearthing the articulate sensing body through the medium of film.
Mariah Maloney - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
JoAnne Maffia - Producer & Dancer
Bowness
film by Kara Diane Bullock (c) 2021 CANADA
In the Fall of 2020, Kara and Johanna met in a movement class in the neighbourhood of Bowness, Calgary. (Mohkinstsis in Blackfoot). This short film, was an opportunity to spend some time together, tell stories and express through movement together.
Kara Diane Bullock - Director
Johanna Vrielink - Dancer
Distance Bullock - Composer
Here and Nowhere Else
film by Marilena Grafakos (c) 2020 GERMANY
Together with filmmaker Paul Maarten Vis and drone pilot Madoc van Zalk, we made an ode to the Frisian culture through music and dance.
Singer-songwriter Klaske de Wal created the song inspired by the surrounding area of Stavoren. The dike, the sea, the harbor, and the lighthouse became the film set for the dance duet.
More info:
www.klaskedewal.online
www.maykevv.com
www.bizonfilm.nl
Paul Maarten Vis - Director
Klaske de WalSinger - songwriter
Madoc van Zalk - Drone pilot
Mayke van Veldhuizen - Dancer
ODE TO OUR FALLEN CHILDREN
film by Ben Dolphin (c) 2022 USA
A Dance Drama response from the profoundly tragic recent killings of children in the US, this is my response.
Ben Dolphin - Director, Writer, Dancer & Cinematographer
Steve Horton - Producer
An Ending... A Beginning
film by Carla Armstrong & Amanda Van Meter Burch (c) 2021 USA
Aging is a harsh reality that comes with so many nuances; trials, blessings, memories, good, bad, ugly, beautiful. Milestones, memories, and experience gain us more wisdom as we work on the legacy we plan to leave the next generation. Coming to terms with the age we see and feel, more and more with each passing day, is no picnic, & mirrors the five stages of grief as we come to terms with the passing away of our youth.
Carla Armstrong - Director, Producer & Dancer
Amanda Van Meter Burch - Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operations, Editor & Still photographer
Christopher Burch - Camera Operations
Central Florida Choreographers Collaboration - Producer
CFCC Films - Producer
Myuu - Music
Contempo School of Dance - Location
heart beats
film by Anabella Lenzu (c) 2021 USA
heart beats conjures memories of the mother-daughter relationship, speaks to the loss of innocence, discipline, freedom, youth, aging, and the passage of time. Anabella Lenzu - Director Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama - Producer Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll - Dancer Anabella Lenzu - Dancer Geoff Gersh - Composer Todd Carroll - Videographer and Editor
Transported
film by Bob Wolf (c) 2021 USA
Two guys waiting at a bench find themselves in an unexpected place.
Bob Wolf - Director, Writer & Dancer
Tom Wolf - Cinematography
Robin Wolf- Art Direction
Mike Aaron - Producer
Maxwell DeChant - Producer
Wonderland
film by Stella Eldon (c) 2020 UK
Wonderland film by Stella Eldon (c) 2020 UK This film is the result of my research investigating connections between improvisation and play, in collaboration with EncoreEast, a dance company for the over 50’s. The dance is completely improvised within set scenes and choregraphed within edit. By September 2020, restrictions on dancing inside meant we literally went outside to ‘play’. The long period spent in lockdown created an exaggerated sense of freedom, which pulsed through the workshops weaving a kind of magic. Creating momentarily a world where colour, texture, smell, sound, and emotions all became intensified by the experience of dancing together outside. We came to play, to share but mostly to enjoy! Stella Eldon - Director, Producer & Dancer. Dancers - Anna Mortimer, Bobbie Clarke, Carol Johnson, Diego Robirosa, Donna Brenchley, Di Gooding, Jeanette Siddall, Ju Williamson, Lyn Matthews, Margaret Williamson, Rowena Morris-Denholm, Stella Eldon & Sue Sinclair