FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Caddy-whompas
(February 2023)
Looking in-side, outside, zig zag, upside down and around the box. You find fun, quirk and delight. Join us this month in screening our Caddy-whompas dance films and tell us, here at Rogue Dancer, what you find. I’ll be staying tuned!!!
February 24 - March 12, 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!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Unisono
film by Vilma Tihilä (c) 2019 FINLAND
Unisono is a physical comedy of finding and accepting oneself.
Vilma Tihilä - Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editoe & Sound Designer
Vilma Tihilä, Sami Hokkanen - Writers
Sami Hokkanen - Dancer & Choreographer
Too Late
film by Ana-Maria Ivailova Petrova (c) 2022 BULGARIA
When a girl dwells upon her life, and gets lost in the process.
Ana-Maria Ivailova Petrova - Director
Maria Arsenova - Dancer
Alexandra Talyokova - Dancer
AudioJungle - Song: Too Late by Mike Koylo
ALONE & TOGETHER The Covid Dances
film by Michael Cole (c) 2021 USA
Alone and Together: The Covid Dances, a ten minute video dance that explores the frustration, boredom, eccentricities, loneliness, desires and acceptance of a period of time where our sense of personal control has all but disappeared. At no point do any of the dancers share the same physical space on any individual screen, but, like a fun house Zoom call, a sense of community is built by showing a multiplicity of human experience encased in the bounding box of a rectangle or square.
Michael Cole - Director
Dancer - Taylor Falcone, Luiza Lamoglia, Chloe Smith & Kelsey Donovan
Busby Bezerk
film by Kent Lloyd (c) 2017 USA
6 minute Screendance. A quirky troupe of performers traverse various terrains searching for their ultimate location.
Kent Lloyd - Director & Producer
Nathan Balser - Writer & Producer
Brigham Young University Department of Dance - Producer
Dancer - Elisabeth Allred, Danielle Ashby, Emily Bayles, McKay Elwood, Jose Farias, Tanner Forbes, Jared McClure, Adam Schraedel & Aubree Weiler
Dreams of Love
film by iina naoto (c) 2015 JAPAN
Butoh dancer Yoshito Ohno manipulates a puppet of his father, Kazuo Ohno, who is one of the founders of Butoh. Or is the puppet manipulating him? Yoshito's gaze toward his puppet father's back is sometimes rigid, hateful, but also kind, admiring, and full of respect. 'Liebesträume' was filmed in Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, the legendary and historical studio full of conflict between father and son through dance. The space is full of posters, props, costumes of the day, and a photo of Kazuo with Pina Bausch. 'Liebesträume' is based on the footage of Yoshito Ohno in the stage performance 'On Kazuo Ohno' by Takao Kawaguchi, edited as an alternative short film version. Original title "Liebesträume". Japanese title 愛の夢(Ai-no-yume).
iina naoto - Director & Producer
Yoshito Ohno - Key Cast
Takao Kawaguchi - Key Cast
Amplificado II
Film by Mary Fitzgerald & Eileen Standley (c) 2021 USA
Amplified II explores ideas about the passage of time, transformation, and the visibility of the older woman’s body.
The work was originally inspired by research about women, dance,
and aging, and has evolved into an investigation of metamorphosis
and change. Using the visceral poetry of Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz as part of the sound score, the work delves into questions about how the body’s presence expands and contracts over time.
What do we become—and what do we leave behind—as the outer layers fall away?
Mary Fitzgerald - Director, Producer & Dancer
Eileen Standley - Director, Producer & Dancer
Truth is in the details
Film by Hadi Moussally SPAIN
One of Mies Van Der Rohe's legendary architectural masterpieces invites you to dive into a journey of empathy between humans, nature and human nature. It questions the perception of truth and regardless of whether the body is static or in motion, we watch but don't see.
Hadi Moussally - Director
h7o7 - Producer
Raphael Miro Holzer - Producer
Dancers - Joel Cojal, Beatriz Cubero Mateo, Raphael Miro Holzer, Hugo Taylor Bragg & Chus Western
Raphael Miro Holzer - Choreographer
Olivier Pagny - D.O.P. & Post-production
Vladimir Kurumilian - Music
Van Holzers - Dance Company
Fundacio Mies Van Der Rohe - Location
Re-enchantment
film by by Elena Kholkina (c) 2021 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The mythologies of many peoples divide the universe into parallel realities, the abodes of people, gods and spirits. Any cultural experience is based on images and symbols from the past. In the modern world, they are transformed, but they continue to surround us and broadcast something. It is interesting to explore your connection to them, because the world of ideas affects the material world, and vice versa.
In the film you will meet 3 types of creatures influencing each other - people, an ancient goddess/or the Sun/ and underworld spirits. You will also see birds-souls, a beast/or a guard/ or a threat. You can move between the worlds following the people and watch their choreography of modern Irish dance with elements of Russian folk dance, hand movements based on Slavic embroidery and body percussion.
Elena Kholkina - Director & Producer
Scramble Theory 101
film by Peter Sparling (c) 2020 USA
Improvising for overhead camera on a greenscreen floor, these dancers from my first-year composition class know how to SCRAMBLE artfully. Thank you, Department of Dance, University of Michigan Class of 2021! Thank you, Thollem McDonas, for another fabulous musical score!
Peter Sparling - Director
Squall Line
film by Maria Ross Campsey (c) 2020 USA
Squall Line, created in May 2020 marking the beginning of the National covid quarantine, explores the emotional response to the unstable environment and the longing for human contact.
Maria Ross Campsey - Director & Dancer
Kellie Giles - Dancer
Main Ballet Tank
film by Bernhard Schmitt (c) SINGAPORE
Machines of War are reassigned for a more meaningful task than destruction: Dancing the CanCan.
A group of T54 Main Battle tanks lets the hair down and get into some serious track-shaking, cannon-spinning and turret-twerking.
Bernhard Schmitt - Director, Writer & Producer
Matias Liebrecht - Key Cast
Veiled
film by Lindsay Clipner (c) 2021 USA
Our life is a canvas. Our brushstrokes attempt to illuminate that canvas and are experiments between our emotional landscape & behaviors with our ideas, fears, chances, grief, dreams, projections, memories, ego, love. Only when we are removed from the canvas, can we unveil where our behavior & emotions play with the outcome of the latter.
Lindsay Clipner - Director & Producer
Katerina Beckman - Dancer
Cameron Thomas - Music
Dreaming Umbra's Realm
film by Devin A. Rice & Cindy Hennessy (c) 2021 USA
Dreaming Umbra's Realm illustrates a world of confined shadow spirits dreaming of freedom. The film reflects the challenges of dancing through the limitations of a pandemic.
Devin A. Rice - Director & Editor
Cindy Hennessy - Director & Producer
Dakota Kuharich - Dancer
Samantha Cressman - Dancer
UNBOUND
film by John Malashock (c) 2020 USA
UNBOUND is a romantic dance duet that is not bound by the conventional laws of gravity.John Malashock - Director
Malashock Dance - Producer
Courtney Giannone - Dancer
Sam Tribble- Dancer
Menti Minda- Mothertongue
film by Karin Balog (c) 2021 Netherlands
The film production Mothertongue is about insomnia worldwide. It asks the question :Work all day and play all night or vice versa ? In a metropolis, the world economy of today, is always going on, in a buzzing street life. Assimilation from the migrating individual is a way to survive in the new geographical location. To what extend is it urgent to follow new rules and habits, in the mass society of this new state ?The dancer on the word flow beat stands for thoughts that carry on, nonstop, in your mother tongue in your head, although being in a new place. To start over and learn a new language is hard. The bird in the film refers to the nightingale with a remarkable rich repertoire, able to produce over 1000 different sounds, their part of the brain that is responsible for creating sound, is much bigger than that of other birds. However the annoyed dancer, chases it away.
Karin Balog - Director, Writer & Producer
Anastasia Kostner - Dancer
Randolphe Leclercq - Music
Gifted
film by Mark Freeman PORTUGAL
A static sculpture — steps without a destination — is transformed by dance asking: What is this place? Why are we here? Where are we going? Filmed on location Almada, Portugal
Mark Freeman - Director & Producer
Raquel Tavares - Dancer
Mariana Romão - Dancer
Danilo Miranda Cares - Cinematographer
CERULEAN BLUES
film by Carles Pamies (c) 2021 SPAIN
Cerulean Blues is a juke joint by the sea..
The dancers are doing slow circles across the floor.
The men playing are earnest in their efforts, but sad, as their dreams were never fully realized.
That's why they're at the juke joint, playing melancholy tunes by a blue sea.
POEM by SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE
Carles Pamies - Director
Arising
film by Ben Dolphin (c) 2013 USA
*** Light nudity
Facing the “truth” is how we evolve. A giant waterfall creates a challenge and serves as a metaphor for the truth. Arising offers an opportunity to move from the lower to the higher self through a confrontation with the truth. Esoterically water represents the “Truth” symbolically representing the individual’s challenge to personal, and environmental challenges while dealing with the group dynamics of their community. No one can do it alone and yet one person always is first. Nine dancers dance, dive, and fly through a waterfall, helping each other and transforming from un-individuated creatures to triumphant flying angels. Here we first meet the Silver Woman who in each film in the ARISING Trilogy is the harbinger and catalyst of change, engendering and supporting the notion that women play leading roles in creating the future success of the species and our planet. Community building, the power of the Feminine Principle and a powerful wish to Grow characterize these intrepid figures.
Filmed by 3 High Speed 2K and 4K Phantom Cameras.
Ben Dolphin - Director, Cinematographer, Choreographer & Writer
ARISING FILM & DIGITAL - Producer
PROTEAN IMAGE GROUP - Producer
Dancers - Ashley Browne, Stephanie Sutherland, Sarah Young, Lauren Engleman, Rob Fernandez, Andrew Griffin & Nick Brentley
Mark Kohl - A- Camera Operator
Bill Floyd - 1st AC
Raffi Ferrucci - Gaffer
Larry Steinberg - Grip
Peter Kunz - Special EFX
Terry Dolphin - Digital Imaging Technician
Birds Eye View
film by Jennifer La Curan (c ) 2022 USA
Exploring movement ideas from above.
Jennifer La Curan - Choreography & Direction
Christian Robinson - Drone Videography
Desiree Stafford - Video Editing
JGaudio - Music
Real Guitars - Music
Dancers - Sabrina Campaña, Kazuma Inoue, Amy Lin, Karess Nguyen, Vihn Tran, Mia Vasquez & Martha White
The Road To Butoh
film by Shai Alexandroni (c) 2022 ISREAL
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'Butoh', an avantgarde dance originated in post-WW2 Japan, is concerned with the experience, images and feelings of the dancer. Attempting to understand Butoh, I move between four creators and their works. They tell about themselves, their lives and their road to Butoh. Similar to Butoh, the film takes on a life of its own and takes me on a journey during which I am exposed to motivating elements of the creators and myself. During the process, I take Butoh lessons, prepare an outfit for myself and create my own piece - while my real Butoh work is actually the film.
Shai Alexandroni - Director & Producer