FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Animal
(April 2023)
Let us not forget we ARE animals.
April 21 - May 7, 2023
«»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!
Click on the picture below to access this month’s SHOWCASE. ”
— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Watching Paint Dry
film by Azize Sousami (c) 2022 UK
‘They have nothing in common. Different backgrounds, cares, social media preferences, pets. Except for THAT WALL.’
WATCHING PAINT DRY is a research-based evocative Screendance work, following a group of dancers who grow impatient, confused and manic as they wait for a finished product; a dry wall. Mundane, repetitious yet thrilling and euphoric. This film will transfer you into a world filled with mysterious connections, escalated breath, and playful glances as the dancers figure out that boredom is a generator of freedom and madness.
Azize Sousami - Director & Producer
Dancers - Beth Horstead, Madi Plunkett, Elsa Roy Gupta, Stephanie Greenwood, Aimee Colohan, Yingyi Pan & Telisa Cottier
Arrival by Horse
film by Robyn Pete (c) 2022 UK
A dancer finds herself in a new practice - with horses. This film documents her process as she finds her authentic self through equine facilitated therapy.
Robyn Pete - Director
Marie-Louise Flexen - Dancer
Birds & Bees
film by Hanna-Mari Ojala (c) 2020 Finland
Hanna Ojala - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Gyre and Mist
film by Sarah M. Hixon (c) 2021 USA
Gyre and Mist, a new dance-for-camera work choreographed and directed by Sarah Hixon, is inspired by the algorithmic elements of nature that can create power, chaos, and tranquility. This work was created through online and outside distanced rehearsals, and was filmed in Sharon Woods Metro Park in Westerville, Ohio. Rather than a bleak response to pandemic isolation, the film is a meditation on the connection between humanity and nature. The film features original music by Columbus-based composer Jennifer Merkowitz.
Sarah M Hixon - Director
Terschelling
film by Ex Nihilo dance company (c) 2019 FRANCE/ NETHERLANDS
In winter, the animals leave their usual pastures for the island's wilderness in order to maintain the landscapes and preserve the natural balance...
Created in 1994, the Ex Nihilo dance company is co-directed by Anne Le Batard and Jean-Antoine Bigot. It brings together an international team of artists who share a common desire: to use public space as a source of inspiration and a site for research, creation, and performance.
Anne Le Batard - Writer
Charles-Henri Despeignes - Sound
Jean-Antoine Bigot - Dancer
Ex Nihilo Dance Company - Producer
TRAUMA
Film by Jose Velasquez & Tope Olaniyan (c) 2020 USA
A short dance film showing us the trauma we all go through! Special thanks to all the people who came together to bring this project to life!
DANIEL XTRA MCNEIL- The Oracle
TRAVIS SKITZ SIMMONS - The Addict
SUZIE Q FELTON - The Abused
JOSE VELASQUEZ - The Grieving
RYAN NATIVE TAYLOR -The Alcoholic
TREZ MOCKV DAVIS - Anxiety
TOPE OLANIYAN (Rareoptics Photography)
Clownfish
Film by hilde de roover, tom schroeder (c) 2021 USA
Flamenco to sound poetry
Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites, meaning they develop into males first and when they mature they can become females.
hilde de roover - Director
tom schroeder - Director
EXTREMOPHILE
film by Lydia Zimmer (c) 2020 CANADA
Lydia Zimmer - Director, Producer & Editor
Julie Robert - Dancer
Anastasia Wiebe - Script Supervisor
Butterfly’s Lament
film by Robin Bisio (c) 2019 USA
The susurration of butterfly wings is sadly muted at the Ellwood Butterfly Preserve in Goleta, Ca. Here is our dance elegy— at once a lament and invitation to return.
Robin Bisio - Director & Producer
Anna Carnes - Dancer
Nik Blaskovich - Cinematographer & Editor
Anaya Cullen - Costume designer
Jennifer Terran - Composer
Arna Bajraktarević - Set photographer
Tërra Bëstia
film by Raphë, Liana Paré (c) 2021 CANADA
On a disputed biodiverse land soon-to-be covered by thick asphalt, the Beast of the Earth begins its prophetic dance with uncertain omens. Its speech, disseminated in a punctuated and lively gestural, is presented as the modern harbinger of the ultimate destiny of mankind.
Tërra Bëstia is a hybrid video composition exploring the nexus of queer identity and the Christian eschatological narrative. Tërra Bëstia recreate an emblematic creature of Christian mythology, used to destroy and demonise queer identities, from the perspective of a contemporary messenger, relevant to the current cosmic cycle of humanity.
Raphë - Director, Performer + Costume
Liana Paré - Director, DOP, CAMERA + EDITING
Siderum - Music Composer
Studio Machine - Sound Mixing Studio
Cocoon
film by Maria Berezhnaya (c) 2021 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Life begins long before its "premiere" to the outside world. It begins where the genome meets the light inside an amazing little laboratory created by nature. The viewer will have to go from the first pulse of energy to the final metamorphosis, where every external action and change in the environment will become a "butterfly effect".
Maria Berezhnaya - Director
Birdsong
film by Alice Elizabeth Ann Pennefather (c) 2021 UK
Mesmerised by the sound of birdsong, a woman finds herself reconnecting with nature through dance as she strolls through a British woodland.
As our dancer moves to the rhythms she hears and senses around her, the sculptural dynamics of her movements become more birdlike, as if her body has been taken over by an invisible force. By the end of our journey, our dancer is so engrossed in her environment she seems to become a bird and fly away.
Alice Elizabeth Ann Pennefather - Director
Ysabelle Taylor - Writer & Producer
Georgina Dingle - Dancer
elex
film by Francis Binet (c) 2022 CANADA
Learning to walk is learning to touch.
Francis Binet - Director
Sophie Levasseur - Dancer
Philippe Vandal - Music
Philémon Crête - Director of Photography
Swans Never Die
film by Luca Di Bartolo (c) 2022 ITALY
"Swans never die" is a video dance work that collects the interiorization of the metaphor of the swan interpreted in a modern key; here the swan is a subjective image of beauty, linked to the world of contemplation and the transformation into an altered time and space. Starting over, finding a blank space to start over.
Luca DI Bartolo - Director, Writer & Producer
Ivonne Bello - Writer & Dancer
Forest
film by Lyn Goeringer, Rosely Conz (c) 2022 USA
Lyn Goeringer - Director
Rosely Conz - Director
Animals in Lapland
film by Hanna-Mari Ojala (c) 2020 FINLAND
All sounds are edited from real animal noises.
Hanna Ojala - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Pink Flight
film by Sandra Portal-Andreu (c) 2021 USA
Pink Flight plays with the parallels between humans and flamingos, taking viewers through a whimsical journey as dancers weave through spaces and architecture with movement and sound.
Hialeah Park Studios is the oldest existing recreational racing facility in Southeast Florida. An Audubon bird sanctuary featuring the iconic pink flamingos, these special birds were the original inhabitants of the park.
Sandra Portal-Andreu - Director, Producer & Choreographer
Dancers - Reshmar Anwar, Destiny Diaz, Stephanie Fuentes, Briana Mendez & Britney Tokumoto
Daniel Rosenberg - Cinematographer
Abi-L-ity - Composer
Beregovoy Studios - Editor
Cuci Amador - Production Assistant
Elory A. Perez Montejo - Extra Footage
Eduardo Riestra - Extra Footage
Special Thanks - Hialeah Park Studios, John J. Brunetti, Jr., Vivian Casáls-Muñoz, Robert H. Williams, III, Jose Luis MartinezSpecial Thanks:
Pioneer Winter Collective, Stephan Koplowitz & Borsch Corporation
Hope
film by Holly Wilder (c) 2020 USA
May hope carry us into action to continue to fight for each other and our planet. We must take immediate action to end the climate crisis and ensure that our grandchildren and our fellow animals’ grandchildren have a home. What will you do?
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” – Rebecca Solnit
Holly Wilder - Director & Choreographer