FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Ball-ET-Room Edition (July 2021)
July 23 - August 8th
Your Playbill
SIRENS TANGO
film by Lisa Le Lievre, choreo Dani Rowe (c) 2018 USA
A series of men are lured to their destruction when they engage in a steamy tango with a seductive dance partner. With a lush musical score, Jazz Age costumes, and visually striking cinematography, this evocative short film uses the tango as a metaphor for life’s tempting interruptions.
Lisa Le Lievre - Director, producer, and writer
Katy Tiemann - Producer & production design
Anna Laclergue - Producer
William Spafford - Producer
Daniel Emanuel - Producer
Sasha De Sola - Dancer
Luke Ingham - Dancer
Dani Rowe - Choreographer
Gary Dworetsky - Composer
Resting Places. A Ballet Film
film by Adam E. Stone (c) 2015 USA
When we stop believing in our dreams, we die. Nadia Mara and Heath Gill star in this ballet film about a successful businesswoman who has forsaken her childhood dream of becoming a professional dancer.
Choreography by Tara Lee.
Music composed by Varvara Gaigerova and performed by Eliesha Nelson, with Glen Inanga
.
Adam E. Stone - Director, writer, and producer
Nadia Mara - Dancer
Heath Gill - Dancer
Jason T. Greene - Cinematographer & Editor
The Embrace
film by Maxime Mathieu Quiroga (c) 2021 GERMANY
"Our conflict is in relationship, at al levels of our existence ; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only the real problem that each one has." J. Krishnamurti
Maxime Mathieu Quiroga - Director, producer, and choreography
Carolin Steitz - Dancer
Daniel Rittoles - Dancer
Nils Frahm - Music
Christopher Peetz - Filming & images
Janet. A Silent Ballet Film
film by Adam E. Stone (c) 2015 USA
Four Edgar Degas paintings come to life in this haunting silent ballet film about alienation, acceptance, and the powerful, enduring legacy of Janet Collins, the first African-American prima ballerina to dance full time with a major company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in 1951.
Adam E. Stone - Director, writer, and producer
Kiara Felder (courtesy of Atlanta Ballet) - Dancer
Will Heisner - Dancer
DeSande R - Dancer
Nayomi Van Brunt - Dancer
Heath Gill (courtesy of Atlanta Ballet) - Dancer
Abi Tan-Gamino - Dancer
Sarah Baer - Dancer
Veronica Francis - Dancer
Diana Shepherd - Dancer
Raynah Unes-Reid - Dancer
Agatha Franca - Dancer
Tara Lee (courtesy of Atlanta Ballet) - Choreographer
Jason Greene - Cinematographer & color grading
Abby Hargrave - Editor
April Briddick - Wardrobe
Michelle Greene - Key Grip
YoYo
film by Constant Vigier (c) 2020 UK
The narrative of this short screen dance is inspired by the situation of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Constant Vigier - Director, writer, producer, and choreographer
Marge Hendrick - Dancer
Rimbaud Patron - Dancer
Claire Souet - Dancer
In Her Hands
film by Alice Pennefather (c) 2019 UK
Alice Pennefather - Director
Charles Haswell - Producer
Natalia Osipova - Dancer
Matthew Ball - Dancer
The Room
film by Laida Aldaz Arrieta (c) 2020 BELGIUM & SPAIN
Confined in a room. Where routine becomes infinite habit for the body, space becomes for the soul a gateway to enter, or to exit...
Laida Aldaz Arrieta - Director
Can you Let Me In
fim by Carl Coomer (c) 2020 USA
The second of an assortment of films inspired by Alex Highton’s music. A powerful and self-reliant woman explores underwater movement and is completely submerged wearing pointe shoes.
Carl Coomer - Director, videography. and editor
Samantha Pille - Dancer
Alex Highton - Music
A Reason To Fight
film by Jason O. Silva (c) 2019 USA
A dance music video set to band Disturbed's incredible song, A Reason to Fight. Through the evocative medium of dance, we are expanding the song's message of holding on to inner strength and never giving up. We created this piece to fight depression, addiction, and hopelessness with the healing power of art. Especially important in the time of the pandemic we all live in.
Jason O. Silva - Director
Kirsten Bloom Allen - Producer & dancer
Magnus Christoffersen - Dancer
Tigran Sargsyan - Dancer
Disturbed - Music
Tchaikovsky in Love
film by Ian Woodward (c) 2018 UK
TCHAIKOVSKY IN LOVE is adapted from the ballet sequence in Ian Woodward’s full-length film “Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky”, recipient of many awards worldwide, with screenings from Hollywood to Salzburg. Based on ground-breaking research by English filmmaker Ian Woodward, the dance-drama reveals for the first time that Tchaikovsky’s popular “Romeo and Juliet” Love Theme is not about a teenage boy and girl in love…not even about a girl. Filmed in Russia and England, the dance film features the Serbian National Ballet soloist Lloyd Petchey as the composer and, as his pupil, the up-and-coming young dancer Rowan Shone who has starred with the English National Ballet in their London production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Set to the music of the famous Love Theme, the sequence is choreographed especially for the film by Yat-Sen Chang, former leading dancer with the English National Ballet.
Ian Woodward - Director & writer
Yat-Sen Chang - Director & choreographer
Corinna Chute - Director
Encore Films (UK) - Producer
Lloyd Petchey - Dancer (as Tchaikovsky)
Rowan Shone - Dancer (as Eduard Zak)
Emma Thurston - Key cast (Narrator)
Simon Alexander - Actor (as Tchaikovsky in "Love Song”)
Celebration Duet
film by John Castagna (c) 2019 USA
This is a film about equality between a man and a woman. Same height, same weight - they each support and help each other.
John Castagna - Director Contemporary
Ballet Collective / LA - Producer
Ashleigh Wilson - Dancer (“Female”)
Dominique McDougal - Dancer (“Male”)
Anda Bernovska - Costumes
Thomas Schoenberger & Jonathan Kaner - Score
Gene Ketcherside - Director of Photography
depression is an island
film by Linxin Kisa Li (c) 2020 USA
I am one of those people who suffers from several mental disorders, and I know what it feels like to be hopeless. Every day I have to constantly remind myself that it’s ok to feel this way, it’s ok to feel vulnerable. Therapy, medicine, writing music, creating cinematic stories, putting all my imagination into art, just to help me feel better. Working on the preliminary stages of my thesis project heals me and continues to inspire me. I am turning all those negativities inside me into a meaningful creative art experience. Thus, it is my main purpose to bring attention to those who are in similar situations and too often ignored. This screendance aims to people who suffer from depression, anxiety, and PTSD as victims of circumstance who need help, care, and love, thereby adding to my career's sense of purpose. Linxin "Kisa" Li - Director, dancer, producer, and videographer
Ryker Laramore - Videographer
Nick Lennon - Music
THE SECRET WOMAN
by Melinda Darlington-Bach (c) 2015 USA
Charles Dickens led a prolific and full life, but he had a secret...her name was Ellen Lawless Ternan. The Secret Woman is a ballet-based ,narrative short film, starring Silicon Valley Ballet principal, Alexsandra Meijer and fellow company dancer, Ryan Seitheach McMahon. As the father of 10 children, Dickens had a life-long struggle between his wife, who did not believe in divorce, and the other woman he dearly loved.
Melinda Darlington-Bach - Director
Cynthia Pepper - Producer
Alexsandra Meijer - Dancer
Ryan Seiteach McMahon - Dancer
Wishing on a Star
film by Calvin Walker (c) 2018 FRANCE
San Francisco Ballet dancer Kimberly Marie Olivier in Paris.
Calvin Walker - Director
Kimberly Marie Olivier - Dancer
In the Other World
film by Eloy Barragan(c) 2018 USA
In the Other World explores Othello’s tragedy within the unique frame of after-death. We see Othello's remorse, guilt, and regret along with their memories, seeking Desdemona’s forgiveness, and her decision to not forgive him of his crime and leaving him.
Eloy Barragan - Director
Seneade Short - Dancer (“Desdemona ”)
Alvon Reed - Dancer (“Othello ”)
Michael Judge - Creative Consultant
Miriam Avila - Videographer
Kory Basset - Videographer
Deja Smith - Make-up Artist
Dee Trannybear - Hair Stylist
Iowa Arts Council - Sponsor
Midwestone Bank - Sponsor
Float
film by Timmi Davis (c) 2021 GERMANY
float is the first video out of a concept created by GJUMM. GJUUM applies achievements from the field of sports science, sports medicine and other relevant fields of science to get the best out of your Performance. Filmmaker @timmi_kwaku_davis created the first official video of an on going project wich combines artistic and athletics with profound scientific expertise.
Timmi Davis - Director
Gijumm - Producer
Vuelvo al Jardin
film by Juliet McMains (c) 2020 USA
It takes t(h)ree to tango
Juliet McMains - Director and dancer
Cristian Santesteban- Dancer
