FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Born THIS Way
(September 2022)
We are, who we are, from the inside out. Our own particular recipe of genes, chemistry and social experiences, map out our identity, who we love, how we process trauma and sometimes just how we dress. To be unapologetic about our true identity is vulnerable and brave. ‘Born THIS Way’ is a, fly on the wall, perspective on DanceFilm Artists addressing the great expansive exploration of SELF.
September 23 - October 9, 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
HNGVR DIVA
film by Charlie Luccini (c) 2020 FRANCE
After taking her last sip out out of that fine redline glass, a young women breaks her hangover and takes us to an entertaining tipsy catwalk
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Charlie Luccini - Director
Wouam - Dancer, Writer & Producer
Lorine Masson - Lighting
Inès Taga - Assistant Camera
THE POWER OF WE
film by Donald C. Shorter Jr. (c) 2021 USA
"The Power of We" is a short documentary film that asks the question, “What does it mean to be visibly LGBTQIA+ in a suburban or rural area?” Three brave individuals present the ways in which they are unafraid to live authentically in Conroe, TX. Dynasty Banks, a bipoc drag queen, shares her story of how drag is a means to self acceptance. Debbie Steele, a lesbian bar owner, talks about how she has persevered in order to make safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ folx in her local community. Jhon embodies their queerness through the art of dance.
Donald C. Shorter Jr - Producer, Cinematographer & Director
Tina Vaden - Associate Director & Editor
Wynee Bennett - Music
All About J.
film by Didier Mulleras (c) 2022 FRANCE
Megan Lowe Dances presents "Maw Jaw," a site-specific dance film journey that takes place outside in public spaces around San Francisco’s Chinatown—activating benches, railings, poles, stairs, and play structures—inviting passersby to witness the creative process, enhancing cross-generational community engagement, and inspiring interest in dance as a tool to engage with the environment/people around us. This film explores mixed-race Asian American experiences, and Asian American Pacific Islander place-making/community building.
Megan Lowe - Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Videographer & Editor
Zachary Abelson - Music
Joshua Abelson - Music Producer
Maurice Ramirez - Videographer
Johnny Huy Nguyen - Dancer
Claudine Naganuma - Dancer
Melissa Lewis - Dancer
Raymond Yu - Community
Yee Lam Yu - Community
Choi Ung Yu - Community
Cindy Zhang - Community
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center - Co-Presentors
THREE
film by Naoto Iina (c) 2022 JAPAN
William Klein photographed Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Yoshito Ohno in Tokyo in 1961. This "Dance Happening" by Klein captured the gang of dancers walking through the town of Ginza, improvising and dancing. "Dance Happening" is the only photographic piece that captured these three legendary Butoh dancers together. As well as featuring Butoh and dance itself, “THREE” is also an attempt to archive Butoh, incorporating video, exhibition, performance and VR technology. Takao Kawaguchi, Dai Matsuoka, and Mikiko Kawamura each accurately copies the choreography of the three Butoh legends; Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Yoshito Ohno. The video was initially created for the TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND in 2021 and later re-edited as a dance film with additional scenes. The choreography of "Tango, Bird" (1971) by Kazuo Ohno is part of the performance piece "About Kazuo Ohno" (2013) by Takao Kawaguchi, which is known for breaking the taboo of the Butoh world by copying Ohno's choreography from the video recordings of his dance performances. Dai Matsuoka, who Yoshito Ohno taught in person, aims to hand down Yoshito's dance to the next generation. To be more precise, Tatsumi Hijikata choreographed Yoshito Ohno, and Yoshito Ohno handed down the choreography to him. Mikiko Kawamura has also perfectly copied the choreography from "Hosotan" (1972). Each copy is not a plain imitation but reproduces the choreography through detailed analytics. Original Japanese title 三 (san). naoto iina - Director Takao Kawaguchi - Dancer Dai Matsuoka - Dancer Mikiko Kawamura - Dancer Ohno Kazuo - Choreographer Yoshito Ohno - Choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata - Choreographer
Sebastienne
film by José Alberto Andrés Lacasta (c) 2021 SPAIN
The arrival of a mysterious engraving about Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian at the Historic Palace of the Aljafería (Zaragoza) awakens the spirit of its old inquisitors, reviving the invincible designs of guilt and desire. José Alberto Andrés Lacasta - Director, Writer & Producer Leonor Villaluenga Peña - Producer Antonio Ayesta - Dancer Ingrid Magrinyà - Dancer
Statuesque
Film by Phil Sanger, YDT Studios (c) 2021 UK
Outside, on grassland, beside stone walls and park benches and beneath an extensive sky, 8 dancers, come together. They are referred to by the colour in which they are dressed. And these colours make up the progress pride flag. These colours come in the form of robes, skirts, tunics, trousers and tops which are non-gender specific. These dancers and their colours, they, dance alone, they cross paths, they interact with each other and those who have come to watch, young and old, distanced and close. In this abbey's ground the people can 'dance together'. The dancers and their colours influence the way one another moves, by using pedestrian rhythms, expansive gestures and intricate grooves. They roam, collect and divide across the abbey's ground. On the grassland, beside its stone walls on park benches in it's archaic fall... Phil Sanger - Director & Producer YDT Studios - Director Carrieanne Vivianette - Writer Dancers - Michael Marquez, Tammy Tsang, Ben King, Mayowa Ogunnaike, George Swattridge, Azizi Cole, Parris Elektra, Owen Burns, Grace Ford & Paulina Porwollik
Pronom al
Film by Alexander Petit Olivieri (c) 2021 USA
LIKE WATER acknowledges the resilience of our ancestors, passed down from generation to generation. A world unkind to our people, yet somehow we survive. A world that that has conditioned us to not see the beauty of our skin, hair, culture and our people. But like water we flow, like water we change shape. We remain resilient. Mthuthuzeli November - Director Nauris BuksevicsDirector of Photography Cassa Pancho - MBE Artistic Director Asisipho Malunga - Writer Richard Bolton - Producer Dancers - José Alves, Isabela Coracy, Alexander Fadayiro, Marie Astrid Mence & Ebony Thomas Georgina Lloyd-Owen - Music Composer Hannah Gibbs - Administrator
On the Bench
film by Xinyuan Li (c) 2021 CHINA
"Please, keep two meters social distance." … "How are you?" "Leave me alone ！" ... "How are you?" "Great! I was not happy before I met you." During the chaos of the epidemic, they met each other, not too early nor too late. Supposing that permanent is a long period of time, he wants to spend the time being with her. Xinyuan Li - Director & Writer Yang Zhang - Producer Haowen Shi - Dancer Anbo Wu - Dancer Chuqiao Pan - Dancer Junru Tao - Dancer
Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak (Because of a Flower)
film by Kim Requesto (c) 2021
Named after the famous composition by Leopoldo Silos, Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak is an interpretive number that embodies the truth of affection through subtle glances of the eyes, quick turns of the head, and flicks of hesitation coupled with courage and longing. It is a love story that moves against the grain of classic Filipino folk dance. From the height of accalimed Bayanihan Dance Company to the prestigious works of Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group, courtship dances have traditionally centered around patriarchal and heteronormative portrayls of love. These depictions of courtship often leave out critical narratives of fluidity within our communities. As the Pilipinx diaspora moves to embrace LGBTQ+ identities and perspectives against colonial rigidity, there comes a growing need for queer narratives to be celebrated across traditional artistic outlets. Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak aims to deconstruct our traditional values and make space for LGBTQ+ representation in Philippine dance. Kim Requesto - Director/Producer/Choreographer Jerico DeGuzman - Cinematographer/Editor Ian Abad - Dancers Brandon Rabanal - Dancers Nicole-Jocelyn Sanchez - Dancers Kevin Mar - 2nd Camera Darren Garza - Production Assistant Dave Ragaza - Lighting Technician Darius Munoz - Lighting Technician Ralph C.R. - Photographer Eduardo Daza-Taylor IV - Graphic Designer
Close Dance
film by Jan Palmblad (c) 2022 Sweden
Three stories about the necessity of being close. And to dance. Jan Palmblad - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
moon pink
film by Sean Rosado (c) 2021 USA
the damsel died in the tower last night she was murdered without remorse no hints were left as to who did it the teller of a porcelain life’s hands were stained he knew not why only a hazy feeling that he cannot recall something in the air decades ago a tightness in the lungs? a squeeze with every heart beat that tightens until it burst? he could not recall The teller continues to tell the broken life of a porcelain doll Sean Rosado - Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Costume Designer & Dancer Sierra Hendrix - Director of Photography & Editor Julia Sloane - Production Assistant Katelyn Reynolds - Costume Designer
Women's Work
film by Annemijn Hélène Rijk (c) 2022 Netherlands
Power, the male gaze, capitalism: our society is full of normally assumed structural relationships that collectively form the status quo. The way we think, the way we look, even what we can fantasize about is framed by these structures within which society takes shape. Choreographer Annemijn Rijk is fascinated by how the body relates to these social, often hidden or socially accepted frameworks. As well as by how the body can challenge them. For the third theme of her Body of Art project, the theme “Beauty”, she investigated how the body today, within these systems, relates to beauty. She found that for her, beauty equals transparency. Transparency in showing the body honestly, in the expression of her dancers, as well as transparency in exposing hidden, social systems. Woman's Work shows six women of different generations and backgrounds. Inspired by the idea of a catwalk as a clamping metaphor for the ideal female image, the women walk over a narrow, steel beam at a great height. The film shows their individual portraits, their own journey within the for them dominant system and their joint resistance. While dancing, they balance mutual relationships, pressure, expectations and manipulation. The fall is inevitable. As is the drive to constantly search for how their flexible bodies can resist the static, steel beam. Annemijn Hélène Rijk - Director & Choreographer Monne Tuinhout - Producer Dancers - Caroline Neijndorff, Pauline Roelants, Revé Ter Borg, Laura De Vos, Izah Hankammer & Yara Meziane el Otmani Richard Spierings - Director of Photography Aura Bouw - Music composer Teun Pulles - Gaffer Björn Schumacher - Grip Casper Fraij - 1st AC Rohwel De Rot - 1st AC Joris Geurts - Sound Recordist Annemarije Van Harten - Costum designer Joyce Walian - Make-up artist Monne Tuinhout - Line Producer Branded Cinema Frederique Rinkens - Production Manager Laura De Vos - Business Manager Body of Art Rick Hooijberg - Production preperation Chantal Jorna - Gymnast trainer
Under The Tracks
film by Alexander Petit Olivieri, Alia Swersky & Roel Seeber (c) 2022 USA
Constructed between 1911 and 1917, the Ballard Locks connects the Puget Sound to Seattle’s upstream lakes. It was originally operated and led by engineer Hiram Chittenden of the US Army Corp, from whom it now gets its name the Ballard Hiram Chittenden Locks. Each year, 40,000 ships pass through the locks that separate the fresh water lakes from the salt water ways of the Puget Sound. In this site-specific work, three dancers explore the line between the past and the present. They slide, scrape and scour the ledge that overlooks the intersection of Seattle's salt and fresh water systems.
NILYDNA
film by Jill Crovisier (c) 2018 LUXEMBOURG & TAIWAN
NILYNDA, Andy Lin in reverse, is a short dance film about gender identifcation. As humans, we are constantly confronted of being categorized and stereotyped. Many factors play an importance when it comes to identity. In this film, you see the beauty and strength of a young man who tries to find his place in a world of 7 billion humans. Jill Crovisier - Director, Writer & Producer Tiago Benzinho - composer Andy Lin - Dancer